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PBEM turn wont finish because of errors, please help!

Posted: Fri Mar 23, 2018 2:44 am
by hattrick
Hi,

While running the turn the game keeps popping up with errors and wont complete the turn.

Any help is greatly appreciated because we cant continue now.

Saved game below with logs.

Thanks :hat:

Re: PBEM turn wont finish because of errors, please help!

Posted: Fri Mar 23, 2018 2:54 am
by Durk
Are you running the game as an administrator? This is the typical reason for sure problems.

Re: PBEM turn wont finish because of errors, please help!

Posted: Fri Mar 23, 2018 9:16 am
by Captain_Orso
Have you tried restarting the game program and try to execute the turn again?

Re: PBEM turn wont finish because of errors, please help!

Posted: Sat Mar 24, 2018 12:19 am
by hattrick
Hello,

The game is through steam and I tried rerunning the turn & the same errors come up.

Do you get the errors?

Re: PBEM turn wont finish because of errors, please help!

Posted: Sat Mar 24, 2018 3:22 am
by Durk
I simply cannot help you with Steam issues, but did you try starting Steam as an admin?

Re: PBEM turn wont finish because of errors, please help!

Posted: Sat Mar 24, 2018 3:32 am
by hattrick
Durk wrote:I simply cannot help you with Steam issues, but did you try starting Steam as an admin?


Hello,

Yes tried that, no go.. :(

Re: PBEM turn wont finish because of errors, please help!

Posted: Sat Mar 24, 2018 4:15 am
by Durk
Well, you might try to run outside of Steam?

Re: PBEM turn wont finish because of errors, please help!

Posted: Sat Mar 24, 2018 8:23 am
by Nikel
Hattrick, no problems here running your turn :hat:

Re: PBEM turn wont finish because of errors, please help!

Posted: Sun Mar 25, 2018 4:24 am
by hattrick
Nikel wrote:Hattrick, no problems here running your turn :hat:


Thanks! :)

I guess I will try a reinstall and see what happens.

Any info regarding the logs, would like to know why this happened?

I was getting errors like this before so I decided to use steam. I was thinking with all the updates, going with steam would be the safer bet.

:hat:

Re: PBEM turn wont finish because of errors, please help!

Posted: Sun Mar 25, 2018 7:51 pm
by hattrick
Hello,

Thanks for all the help, not sure what else I can do but on rerunning the turn again I still get the " The program is generating errors and is stalling"

Re: PBEM turn wont finish because of errors, please help!

Posted: Sun Mar 25, 2018 8:14 pm
by Nikel
The log file refers to the USA.ord file.

Have you tried redoing the USA orders?



The same error posted here for EAW

http://www.ageodforum.com/viewtopic.php ... ss#p394898


Also you should try not installing the game in Program files folder, if that is the case (your Steam installation is precisely there).

Re: PBEM turn wont finish because of errors, please help!

Posted: Mon Mar 26, 2018 12:01 pm
by Captain_Orso
You ought to be able to start the program without steam.

Check where steam says the "app" is installed, quit steam and navigate to the installation folder with your file manager / Windows Explorer. Check if you can simply run the game, by double clicking the CW2.exe binary. If steam has installed CW2 underneath 'C:\Program Files\Steam...' you might want to consider having steam move the 'app' to a new disk. This would take the Windows constraints on manipulating and editing files underneath 'C:\Program Files'. Once done, right click CW2.exe, seletect properties, compatibility tab, Privilege Level - and check 'Run this program as an administrator'.

It seems very unlikely to me, the installation might be defective. Once installed, the only files the game changes are under Settings, and Saves.

If the program cannot access files, which are there and available to be read, the issue is likely not the files, but the system attempting to access them.

If you run out of RAM and try to start a new program, Windows will page out (move the data from the memory space used by windows to run a program, which is not actually actively running at that point in time, to the page file, and them free up the memory.

It might be that this paging process is taking so long, that CW2.exe gives up and simply says it cannot read the file, if it is waiting for memory to free-up, but it is taking too long.

Re: PBEM turn wont finish because of errors, please help!

Posted: Wed Mar 28, 2018 12:52 am
by hattrick
Hello,

Good news! :dada:

It turns out it was a corrupted orders file, thank you for the help!

:hat: