Mr_Tayto Posted July 27, 2024 Posted July 27, 2024 On the whole SF2 has been very stable for me, only every crashing once before today. The particular issues is the 1966 Dhimar campaign; twice now on a recon mission (the first mission), the game has stuttered and crashed mid-flight. Nothing happening , just crashes. If it's the mission itself that's bugged, is there anything I can do to fix it, such as delete a file which will then self-generate on startup? I should also say I can't find my original installation key for the merged install, I think I deleted the email a year or so back, and I don't want to shell $100 again! Quote
EricJ Posted July 27, 2024 Posted July 27, 2024 Could be just the mission and think about getting an external hard drive. So far mine has been reliable, but having one and saving stuff is a must for some programs, but I think the mission just may be borked. Quote
Wrench Posted July 27, 2024 Posted July 27, 2024 3W has a record of you purchase. You should be able to just download it again. I did a few weeks ago, as I couldn't find the All-In-One exe. Didn't have a problem Quote
Mr_Tayto Posted July 27, 2024 Author Posted July 27, 2024 1 hour ago, Wrench said: 3W has a record of you purchase. You should be able to just download it again. I did a few weeks ago, as I couldn't find the All-In-One exe. Didn't have a problem I didn't know that. Wish I'd realised before I re-bought VN last year I've just reset it and have the dls available. 1 hour ago, EricJ said: Could be just the mission and think about getting an external hard drive. So far mine has been reliable, but having one and saving stuff is a must for some programs, but I think the mission just may be borked. Yeah maybe. I could just abort it on the runway I guess. Annoying, though. Quote
EricJ Posted July 27, 2024 Posted July 27, 2024 7 minutes ago, Mr_Tayto said: Yeah maybe. I could just abort it on the runway I guess. Annoying, though. Yeah, but who knows it may work too. I usually don't play campaigns so I can only do so much and not much I can do to help. Quote
+Gepard Posted July 27, 2024 Posted July 27, 2024 With crash, do you mean crash to desktop or worse? Do you use a clean installation of the game or do you use mods? Quote
madvad Posted July 28, 2024 Posted July 28, 2024 A good way to check the reason for crashes is to use the Windows Event Viewer. Today I had a crash right after the loading screen, and when I checked, it showed me a path related to nvidia drivers (for amd64, even though I use Intel...who knows why...): 2 Quote
OlWilly Posted July 30, 2024 Posted July 30, 2024 When SF2 crashes, open the crash event report, expand it and look at the module which caused the crash. This may give some input on what caused the crash. Recently, I had persistent campaign crash in a certain mission, on further examination it was caused by ground_formation.dll or somesuch. So obviously, game didn't like something related to ground unit behavior. The solution is to start the mission and then exist it, failing but skipping it. 1 Quote
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