Demo error
 

I really want to buy Fantasy Wars but I have never been able to get around the following problem.

When starting the demo I receive the following error:

INO-CO sadly reports: Program has crashed

Call Stack Functions:

<address in .exe>

I've googled this but have not received any valid information...especially not in English.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Bill

Hi, I advise you to ask our support team (support at 1cpublishing.eu)

Thank you for your question.

any updates on this problem? has anyone encountered it with the full version?

i tried with the english and german demo, same error.

Got the same error in the full release when my mage casts a 'fireball'... seems to only occur when this is cast. Happens intermittently..so not a real problem - given the game autosaves everymove it makes it relatively painless..however inconvenient. It would be good to see this fixed in a patch.

my problem is that a can't even start the demo - it crashes after some short loading time.

I have the US full version. I have the same exact problem. I can't even get the game up and running. I've searched and can't seem to find an answer anywhere.

try looking in the Fantasy Wars folder for these files and see if any of them have a meaningful error message in them:

Generals_Debug.log
Generals_Error.log
gui_log.txt
message.log

Thanks for the fast reply!!

I'm finding some errors in the Message.log and Generals_Debug.log. Both seem to have the same basic message. I won't include everything, but they seem to follow the same basic pattern:

SetF ~[cl_force_eng] [1.000000], variable not found
0.370 0 SetF ~[r_strips] [0.000000], variable not found
0.370 0 SetF ~[r_hwcursor] [1.000000], variable not found
0.370 0 SetF ~[r_debug_query] [0.000000], variable not found
0.370 0 SetF ~[d_prefetch] [0.000000], variable not found
0.370 0 SetF ~[d_prefetchspells] [1.000000], variable not found
0.370 0 SetF ~[d_sleep] [-1.000000], variable not found
0.370 0 SetF ~[d_vmem_impaired] [0.000000], variable not found

Not sure if this helps. Thanks again!

R

that seems to be normal b/c i have those too and my game works.
Let's try this. Paste like the last 5 lines from each file. I'll compare them with mine and then I can see what comes next in my file and maybe that will tell us "where" it is crashing.

Ok, sounds good. Thanks again for the help!

Here's the Generals_Debug.log (I put the error in bold)

2.1250: ModuleTimer_c initialized in 3.41 sec
2.2960: [Render] RenderInit()
2.3120: [Render] RenderSwitchMode: 1024x768, windowed=0
2.3120: [Render] window style: 94000000
2.3120: [Render] window ex style: 00000000
2.3120: [Render] iAdapterToUse=0 tDeviceType=1
2.3120: [Render] DeviceType=0; vs=00000000
2.3590: Cannot create device: hr=80004005 (E_FAIL)18.4060: ModuleExtCon_c: still initialized!
18.4060: ModuleSinCos_c: still initialized!
18.4060: ModuleLog_c: still initialized!
18.4060: ModuleConsole_c: still initialized!
18.4060: ModuleSerialize_c: still initialized!
18.4060: ModuleTbmConfig_c: still initialized!
18.4060: ModuleProfiler_c: still initialized!
18.4060: ModuleFile_c: still initialized!
18.4060: ModuleTimer_c: still initialized!

Here is the Messag.log file (I included extra to where you can actually see the error I get in the pop-up window)

iAdapterToUse=0 tDeviceType=1
4.423 0 [Render] DeviceType=0; vs=00000000
4.463 0 Cannot create device: hr=80004005 (E_FAIL)

PROGRAM IS CRASHED!!!
Exception code: 80000003 BREAKPOINT
Fault address: 7C812A7B 01:00011A7B C:\WINDOWS\system32\kernel32.dll

Registers:
EAX:0022CDE8
EBX:00000002
ECX:7C91056D
EDX:0126B3E0
ESI:00000000
EDI:00000000

CS:EIP:001B:7C812A7A

SS:ESP:0023:0022CDE4 EBP:0022CE38

DS:0023 ES:0023 FS:003B GS:0000

Flags:00000246

MM0 = 00c4c8ee00c4c8ee
MM1 = 0000000000000000
MM2 = 000000c700c900ee
MM3 = 000000c500c900ee
MM4 = 00c6caef00c8caef
MM5 = 000000c600ca00ef
MM6 = 0000000000000000
MM7 = 0080008000800080

Call stack:
Address Frame Function SourceFile
7C812A7A 0022CE38 RaiseException+51
00559475 00000001 Localization::DecodeList+7085