Could AI's be the cause of ACT OF WAR.EXE crashes?

[John Chi]

I noticed that whenever me and my friends play online against AI's, we get crashes. But we seem to get no problems when playing against each other without AI's.

[Peoples-Agent]

I get that crash trying load up single player with the patch let alone anything else, doh!

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[John Chi]

C'mon, I can't be the only person who's played against AI's in multiplayer? Has anyone been able to play against AI's in skirmish or multiplayer?

[screetch]

It is actually possible to play AI but there may be bugs (we do not deny), and we are checking this. We oftrn played with AI but experienced no problem

Usually when Ai are in the game they are all shared between all players (for example, 2 people against 2 AI means one of the two people will make one AI run on his computer and the other player will make the other AI run). What happens when one of the people is disconnected is that one of the AI will disappear in the void with the player....

exceptthat, everything should work fine.

[screetch]

and i believe you tried skirmish mode and did not experience any problem, did you?

[Jagdwolf]

don't really know if it has anything to do with the AI or not, and I only get this error when playing the campaign;
I always get this error message:

Exception 'EAccessViolation' in module ACTOFWAR.EXE at 00358F9D
Violation d'accès à l'addresse 00759F9D dans le module 'ACTOFWAR.EXE'.
Lecture de l'adresse 000000B8

Source file: UNKNOWN, Line UNKNOWN

what does it mean in none IT terms ?

[screetch]

act of war has crashed and msut be closed ^^

whenever the game crashes it says this.

how do you get such errors, is there any way to reproduce it?

[Peoples-Agent]

I can reproduce this simply by installing the patch 1b and trying to run the game, every single time without fail it crashes like this.

[Jagdwolf]

right, i got no clue how to reproduce them tbh, but i got this error message 3 times today ... >_<

but I noticed that i always get this error message, when there are following "situations" on my screen:

1. My units are engaged in combat
2. enemy units shot at me from captured buildings
2. burning houses surround me
3. and i start to scroll ...

but it crashes only when those 4 things r visible on my screen. no idea if this helps.

[Peoples-Agent]

What your system specs?..

What driver versions etc

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[John Chi]

Originally posted by screetch
and i believe you tried skirmish mode and did not experience any problem, did you?


Heh, well I once did a 3v3 skrimish in the URBAN TERROR map. Everytime the map loaded the graphics would get all wierd. I kept trying playing this map with the same number of AI's, first I got flickering in my screen, then the second time everything got pixilated and jumbled up (like when you put resolutions or refresh rate settings your monitor can't handle), and the third time looked alright except the trees were missing textures they just looked like 3D cones.

I played again on the same map with just one AI and everything worked and looked fine.

[John Chi]

Originally posted by Peoples-Agent
What your system specs?..

What driver versions etc

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P4 3.2 GHZ
2 GIGS RAM
Geforce 6800 GT 256 MB with the latest 71.84 driver installed.

[Peoples-Agent]

Try turning off Anti Aliasing in your nVidia control panel.
Hmm, strange problem that for sure.

[John Chi]

Originally posted by Peoples-Agent
Try turning off Anti Aliasing in your nVidia control panel.
Hmm, strange problem that for sure.

Y'know I COULD do that... but why should I let something like this prevent me from enjoying the full power of the video card I spent so much cash on?? It ain't right! If I do this the terrorist win! Or at least I feel like some evil force has won over my card.

[Peoples-Agent]

To be honest, on the few times I have actually got the game working whilst patched, I have turned off AA as an experiement, and you dont even notice the difference. Something to do with the game engine maybe, try it and see.

[screetch]

if you DO that and the game works fine we can eventually FIX it soon, if you DON'T do that then we don't know what's the problem and we can't help you.

[Peoples-Agent]

This game has a mind of it's own, you guys should learn from this and not let publisher deadlines force you into taking shortcuts.