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[lil tasman]

http://contra.cncgui...Eng/trouble.php

Read it. Do what it says.

[Su8perkillr]

Hi Everyone I need serious help which is pissing me of its this

i start a game i play a little bit then it says
Tecchnical Difficulties:
You HAve Encountered A Serious Error and bla bla bla i cant play like this PLEASE HELP
thanks

Have you downloaded the new scripts? They save you a lot of these errors.

[Casojin]

Hi Everyone I need serious help which is pissing me of its this

i start a game i play a little bit then it says
Tecchnical Difficulties:
You HAve Encountered A Serious Error and bla bla bla i cant play like this PLEASE HELP
thanks

Please describe your game. If you play 8p game, then it's no way to help you. Also, install the patch would help but too many players would eat your computer resources nevertheless.

[Su8perkillr]

I able to play 8p untill 3rd rank, so I think that this is irrelevant

[Casojin]

But still you cannot end 8p game normally, right?

[Su8perkillr]

But still you cannot end 8p game normally, right?

Sometimes. There is an old trick for being able to play the whole game: Save right before reaching rank 3 (or shortly after) The game will check on any out-dated effects and will restart the engine softly, so that there is more CPU available again. It works greatly for me. Plus, IF it crashes after this remedy, you can restart playing on the save game.

There is, however, 1 very irritating bug that mainly spawns in 8P battles: Units ignoring your commands. You command your unit to move, and it does move. For 0.1-3 secomds.

[lil tasman]

Its because of AI. Having AI causes this error. Try just people, works much better.

[Casojin]

You will have to tell EA to release a source-code and let some programmer work on it to fix this problem. It's engine problem not the mod.

[Milance]

Hi everybody, I have the same problem and I done everything what you said, but always have the same problem, what's happended? My skirmish game rapidly crashes after 10-15 min when I play with 6,7 and 8 AI. I don't know what to do. The mod is great and I really want to play this. I downloaded AI fix and new script,but this stupid crashes always persist's. What's the problem?? With every mod I installed,have the same problem and always said something like this:

Release Crash at Sun Feb 27 19:15:16 2011
; Reason Uncaught Exception in GameEngine::update

Last error:
Exception is access violation
WinMain at 401700
Error code: EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION
Description: The thread tried to read from or write to a virtual address for which it does not have the appropriate access.
Access address:00000064 was read from.

Stack Dump:
<Unknown>(-1) : <Unknown> 0x005D4A13

Details:
Register dump...
Eip:005D4A13 Esp:0013F9F4 Ebp:00000001
Eax:00000000 Ebx:16149584 Ecx:16149564
Edx:00000000 Esi:16149564 Edi:16149564
EFlags:00010246
CS:001b SS:0023 DS:0023 ES:0023 FS:003b GS:0000
EIP bytes dump...

Bytes at CS:EIP (005D4A13) : 8B 4A 64 74 65 83 78 08 17 75 5F 39 8E 98 01 00 00 75 28 8A 86 F4 01 00 00 84 C0 0F 84 D3 01 00


Current stack:

Please help me,this is so annoying. Thanx in advance forward and sorry for my English,I'm not an Englishman!

Edited by Milance, 27 February 2011 - 10:19 PM.

[lil tasman]

This is a known problem, and is (i think) caused by bad AI coding, which is being remade/fixed in 008.

[Milance]

This is a known problem, and is (i think) caused by bad AI coding, which is being remade/fixed in 008.

This is the great news, I hope this problem will be fixed in 008 version for the best game experience. This is the best strategy game ever! Do you know maybe when is releasing date of version 008 approximately?

[lil tasman]

Ughhhhh.... this question asked SOOOOOO many times. The actual mod is nearly done, but the campaign, challenge mode, and some AI is still in progress. No definite date.
Also, i have played with 7 other CPU players in 008 alpha on biggest map and had no crash. It seems much more... stable.

[Milance]

Ughhhhh.... this question asked SOOOOOO many times. The actual mod is nearly done, but the campaign, challenge mode, and some AI is still in progress. No definite date.
Also, i have played with 7 other CPU players in 008 alpha on biggest map and had no crash. It seems much more... stable.

I'm the new one, sorry for the double question and thanx for the answer, keep the excellent work, but my suggestion is to add cash of 100 000 in new version, some deffense turrets on Nuke General and extend the rank,because with this one is an neverending story
Does someone know how we can change the rank manually?

[Casojin]

- 100,000 starting cash is not added because it doesn't fit tactical gameplay Creator intended.
- Nuke Defensive Turret is removed ever since 006 because Nuke Gen is extremely overpowered in previous version. Nuke Gen is designed to be offensive faction, so it is better to stick to that design and play offensively (and defense with units).
- Changing rank manually can be done by editing every single rank-locked units/structures (which surely took hours and should be done by experienced coder or the game might mess up). Currently, only Creator (code testing) version has no rank-lock.

[Milance]

- 100,000 starting cash is not added because it doesn't fit tactical gameplay Creator intended.
- Nuke Defensive Turret is removed ever since 006 because Nuke Gen is extremely overpowered in previous version. Nuke Gen is designed to be offensive faction, so it is better to stick to that design and play offensively (and defense with units).
- Changing rank manually can be done by editing every single rank-locked units/structures (which surely took hours and should be done by experienced coder or the game might mess up). Currently, only Creator (code testing) version has no rank-lock.

To bad, because rank is not realistic and unlock a little General powers, does it be changed in the next version and does we can change it manually? It would be so useful. Thanx very much for your answer.

[Casojin]

It cannot be changed without modding tools and skills. If you've never do anything with ZH code before, I wouldn't recommend doing it at all. Rank-teching system gives Contra more unique and strategic gameplay. It makes you think more to defeat your opponent. Next version is in adjustment phase for gameplay and code but campaigns and Gen challenges are WIP at the moment.

[Milance]

It cannot be changed without modding tools and skills. If you've never do anything with ZH code before, I wouldn't recommend doing it at all. Rank-teching system gives Contra more unique and strategic gameplay. It makes you think more to defeat your opponent. Next version is in adjustment phase for gameplay and code but campaigns and Gen challenges are WIP at the moment.

I know that sir, everything is great about the mod,but failure is too long and neverending fights. I know how to change the rank in normal Zero Hour, but do not in this mod, because that is zipped in BIG files. Can I somehow unzip BIG files?