Multi DAG game crashes, cannot start

grumblefish · Post by **grumblefish** » Mon Mar 08, 2010 2:53 am

I have a game going right now, Parthia v. Attalid Pergamon; it's me vs. TheGreyMouser, 400 point battle. When I try and start this battle (it's my turn to deploy troops), the game just gives an empty map, and I cannot scroll anywhere. If I click the mouse button, Windows says the game is not responding and then I have to close it.

I don't know what the problem is; all my other multiplayer games work fine. I can't delete or forfeit this game, though, so I have a game awon my list and if I start it up, the game crashes.

grumblefish · Post by **grumblefish** » Mon Mar 08, 2010 2:59 am

Actually, it appears to be a much bigger problem:

I cannot load my Parthian army at all.

I have a 400 point army, involving the following units:

Parthian:
Cataphracts
Horse Archers
Greek City Militia

Hatran:
Cataphract Elephants
Horse Archers
Foot Archers

Elymaian:
Cataphracts

This army refuses to load; if I start a battle with this army list, the game crashes.

grumblefish · Post by **grumblefish** » Mon Mar 08, 2010 3:03 am

After further testing, it appears the army will load up. It's actually a certain map that will not. Every time the parthian army comes up on that map, the game crashes; you can see the map from that multiplayer game that is in progress.

I can load the army if I choose a crowded or very crowded map; if I choose any of the other three options, I get a green terrain map with some forest or hills on the extreme sides, but the game just crashes.

grumblefish · Post by **grumblefish** » Mon Mar 08, 2010 3:49 am

Argh, now I have two crashed/unloadable challenges on multiplayer, as someone picked up my other Parthian game. It's against Iversonjm if you want to take a look; I can't load either of them.

TheGrayMouser · Post by **TheGrayMouser** » Mon Mar 08, 2010 4:01 am

Sorry to hear about this (was wondering when you were going to send your turn

)

Do you think its a map problem? Its been a couple hours but i do recalling deploying my forces so the map must have loaded on my end.. Maybe an issue w baggage camps?

I was looking around the game folder and cannot find any folders that hold data for the DAG mp games so looks like something for Slith. to look into

grumblefish · Post by **grumblefish** » Mon Mar 08, 2010 4:06 am

TheGrayMouser wrote:Sorry to hear about this (was wondering when you were going to send your turn )

Do you think its a map problem? Its been a couple hours but i do recalling deploying my forces so the map must have loaded on my end.. Maybe an issue w baggage camps?

I don't know why it's not working; the thing that causes it to crash for me is simply Parthia + certain maps (after testing in single player, sometimes it crashes, sometimes it doesn't, but only with the Parthian army described above). I can't load them up in single player, either, unless I choose the most crowded map. Really odd; I guess I will have to shelve my cataphract camels until slith figures it out

EricS · Post by **EricS** » Mon Mar 08, 2010 2:33 pm

Thanks for reporting this crash. I've confirmed it by building the army you describe. As a short-term work-around, I can only suggest that you avoid using that army.

I'll post to this thread again when we know more about it or a fix is available.

EricS · Post by **EricS** » Mon Mar 08, 2010 3:12 pm

Update: This will be fixed in the next patch. In the meantime, try using only one ally in the Parthian list. Also, experiment with your army by starting a single-player game with it, before using it in multiplayer. Thanks for reporting this