It happened a fourth time. My friend and I against an AI team and the game just ended claiming Team 2 (AI) won.

We significantly outscored them and killed 54 of them while only losing 8 units. We lost no Flags and took several from them. We had 29 of 100 VPs.

How did we lose to the AI???????

How ...

2 Humans Team 1 vs 2 AI Team 2.
The game simply ended and claimed that Team 2 won. Team 1 hadn't lost a single flag and enemy killed was 61 of 68

Victory Conditions: Control The FLag and/or Wipe Them Out
How does Team 2 win?

Both scenario's crash (unreal engine crashes) and I am unable able to proceed in either campaign. Norha Base crash details are in another thread. Hannovrsch Munden crash details are below.

LoginId:f71b226d4a3e304d5677e782239348eb
EpicAccountId:

Unhandled Exception: EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION ...

Installed via Steam. Windows 11, no missing patches/updates. Steam, no missing updates/patches. NVidia, current driver. Unable to get past turn 4 or 5 for this NATO scenario without crashing to desktop with an Unreal dump. I posted about this on the Steam community and received one acknowledgement ...

I received emails Sunday that I have some PBEM turns waiting for me. Started the game and got a popup over the main menu "GUI_ServeRresponseError". I closed the popup and click on MultiPlayer and ... it never connects. I posted about it on the Steam forum and another person reported the same ...

i think i'm going to uninstall BA2, steam and then reinstall both and the DX9 and try again. maybe tomorrow before the next report.

Sorry, didn't realize you had replied and it had created another page in the discussion.

Yes, the screen rez was at 125%. I changed it to 100% and tried to load the game and was able to get all the way into a multiplayer game under my account. I existed and tried to reload the game to try a local ...

Correct. Before the debug executable, it would show the title screen, start playing music and the progress bar would halt shortly before the end of the line. Then nothing until I killed it.

Now, with the debug executable, it goes all the way into the main game screen, but ignores ResX and ResY and ...

picture not shown in previous message.

Okay .. the ZIP file contains an error.log, MESSAGES.DAT, OPTIONS.TXT and TUF.INF that were all changed when I ran the debug executable. The attached picture shows that the debug executable didn't respect the requested RexX and ResY and therefore I was unable to select various program commands.

pat ...

I'm having trouble following you. You did run the DXSETUP on the computer that's having the problems, right? And it didn't make any difference?

Correct.


OK - can you please try something for me. Can you take the EXE and the pdb from the below zip and drop them into the install folder for the ...

Pip,

OKay, he's offline and I've tried to start BA2 ... I hit the PLAY button on the launcher, the music starts playing and the loading screen shows up. The progress bar rapidly speeds across the screen until about a 1/2" before the end and stops. Hitting ENTER doesn't do anything. Hitting ESC ...

Pip,

Okay, hitting ENTER while the music is playing and the progress bar is sitting there slightly less than complete ... accomplishes nothing.

I've just installed DXSETUP from the redist directory under Steam ... unfortunately my friend is currently playing CIV VI on his other computer at home ...

I'm sorry Pip, I neglected to include the error.log last night. <blush>

VER:10004
PLATFORM: WINDOWS
CPU String: AuthenticAMD
Stepping ID = 1
Model = 8
Family = 15
Extended model = 6
Extended family = 8
CLFLUSH cache line size = 64
APIC Physical ID = 2
CPU Brand String: AMD Ryzen 5 5500U with Radeon ...

RezX 1920
RezY 1080
Sound 1
Fullscreen 0

I've tried SOUND 1 & 0. No difference. I get the warning that it's going to try to access the internet (pic attached) and then it hangs with the progress bar not quite all the way across (2nd pic attached) (with music if "SOUND 1" or silent if "SOUND 0 ...

Pip,

How do we force the game into Windowed mode or change the Sound settings when we can't get into the game to get to the Options settings? There's no way to access that from the launcher and I don't see anything inside Steam to allow us to set the game to launch in Windowed mode vs Fullscreen ...

they left their laptop here at my house. i'll try those suggestions after work in a bit.

Thank you!
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Follow up - this was a clean install from a clean STEAM install. No data files copied from his old PC.

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Pip, et al,

A friend of mine had BA2 on his old PC but stopped playing it a few years ago after getting some weird errors. He's recently bought a brand new Win11 laptop and thought he'd give it a try again and now he's not even able start the game from the Loader screen (EXCEPTION: 0xC0000005 at ...

@Pip

I apparently spoke too soon. I was able to play a couple of turns today, but now I'm getting the old "The server has been unable to validate your details. Please contact the support forums at www.slitherine.com" message.

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