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Command Ops: Battles From The Bulge takes the highly acclaimed Airborne Assault engine back to the West Front for the crucial engagements during the Ardennes Offensive. Test your command skills in the fiery crucible of Airborne Assault’s “pausable continuous time” uber-realistic game engine. It's up to you to develop the strategy, issue the orders, set the pace, and try to win the laurels of victory in the cold, shadowy Ardennes.
Command Ops: Highway to the Reich brings us to the setting of one of the most epic and controversial battles of World War II: Operation Market-Garden, covering every major engagement along Hell’s Highway, from the surprise capture of Joe’s Bridge by the Irish Guards a week before the offensive to the final battles on “The Island” south of Arnhem.

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Anyone else running XP getting a crash to desktop when saving or loading a game?
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Anyone else running XP getting a crash to desktop when saving or loading a game?

Saving and Loading OK here with Windows XP
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loyalcitizen,
 
Can you please open your game directory in explorer, sort it by type, scroll till all the files of type 'Application Extension' are in view and then take a screen dump and post it back up here. Thanks.
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Posting this here, as the patch thread doesn't seem to be the right place for feedback.

If I manually try to SAVE or LOAD a game, it immediately crashes to desktop. Every time! Literally just hitting the SAVE (in-game) or LOAD GAME (from main menu) button gets the CTD.
Never had that happen with any previous patch.
What OS are you running?
What version number appears in the bottom right of the screen?
Can you run any scenario?

Running Windows XP.
Version .276 That's what appears in the ABOUT section.
Yes, I can start and play any scenario. But if I try to SAVE or LOAD from within a game or the main screen, instant CTD. Like faster than I have ever seen a CTD. No Microsoft "send us info on this crash" pop-up or anything.

I had a similar crash when I tried to manually save a game.

OS: Windows 7
Version: 4.2.276
HTTR (the scenario and map loaded just fine)

I will try again today and see if the same thing happens.
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loyalcitizen,
 
What scenarios were you trying to save/load when they crashed to desktop?
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loyalcitizen,

What scenarios were you trying to save/load when they crashed to desktop?

I tried several. They all did it.
Just tried a few more just now. 1 day, 3 day, 5 day. Same. It's not a scenario bug.
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Loyal,
 
Sorry, let me be explicit. Does this behaviour occur on the standard BFTB scenarios?
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Have started playing through From the Meuse to the Rhine, slowly. Will post if anything odd appears.
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Loyal,

Sorry, let me be explicit. Does this behaviour occur on the standard BFTB scenarios?

Just tried:

Cracking the Goose Egg
Greyhound Dash
Battle of the Roadblocks
Big Chill Breakout (HTTR)
(all unmodified)

1. Main Menu, hit New Game.
2. Select any scenario (including the above)
3. Hit Begin
4. Without touching any unit, click Menu at bottom of screen, click Save Game
5. Instant CTD, no error messages or anything.
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I don't get that here.
 
Anyone on XP experience this behaviour following loyalcitrizen's sequence of steps?
 
loyalcitrizen,
 
Can you lease open your Game directory in Windows Explorer, sort by file type, scroll down so that all files of type 'application extension' are in view, take a screen dump and post it back here.
 
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I don't get that here.

Anyone on XP experience this behaviour following loyalcitrizen's sequence of steps?

I did exactly that, in XP(*), had no problems.


(*) but I am going to have to migrate to Windows 7 within a few weeks.
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I don't get that here.

Anyone on XP experience this behaviour following loyalcitrizen's sequence of steps?

loyalcitrizen,

Can you lease open your Game directory in Windows Explorer, sort by file type, scroll down so that all files of type 'application extension' are in view, take a screen dump and post it back here.

Ok, here it is. I deleted the 4 .dll files already, to make it work in the first place.
I can open a game and start playing, but if I try to save or load a game, CTD.


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loyal,

Thanks or that. Can you move the MIMG32.dll file out of this directory to a temporary location. Then try running the game and se if that allows you to save and load.
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Moved it out and no luck. Still allows me to play as usual, but saving and loading cause CTD.
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Send me a DX Diag report please. You can find out how here:
http://www.matrixgames.com/forums/tm.asp?m=3026705
 
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OK, PM Sent.
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Any idea when the final product will be posted so that I can play the Axis side?
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Joe,
 
Please remind me why you can't play the Axis side now?
 
I hope to resolve the issue with MS dlls next week. It's a vexed issue in that MS Installer automatically allows you to install any prerequisites such as the MDC Framework and VC++ 2010 Runtimes. So on load it checks your machine and downloads from MS site the appropriate prerequisite software and installs it before installing our game. It has worked fine in the past but MS have issued an updated set of VC++ 2010 Runtimes (SP1) and we use these to generate our Game code. However, here's the rub, the prerequisites are not installing the latest SP1 version but the previous one. Hence we get into trouble. If your machine for any reason has the latest version already installed then it won't let you proceed. If it doesn't it does install the Runtimes but the old version and if you are running XP this causes problems. The workaround is that we will have to manually install the latest runtimes - a veritable pain in the ar$e. Once I have that done we will get out another beta to test the workaround and then put out the final.
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Joe,

Please remind me why you can't play the Axis side now? ...

I was playing "Race to Bastogne" as the Axis and Panzer Lehr gave me that old "can't complete its move in allotted time" message; all the other Axis units seemed OK
with their missions, so perhaps it was just a glitch when it showed only 2 days to complete its move in a 5-day plus scenario.

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Joe,
 
Just change the end time so it has more time. That's a pretty simple workaround.
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