Gates of Troy demo problem

joseph_kerr · Post by **joseph_kerr** » Sat May 21, 2005 8:22 pm

I'm just trying out the Gates of Troy demo now and while it's a blast so far i'm having a problem when i choose one particular group, the mysians, in the one grand campaign selection available. When i choose to control the battle when i attack another group or am attacked myself the game shuts down and a screen pops up saying Gates of Troy has encountered a problem and will shut down. When i open up the demo again any battle screen i go to, the camera angle is extremely close to the ground and i can't rotate it around to look around or really see anything at all, it's pretty much frozen up though the battle does take place just fine. I have to uninstall the demo and then install it again to properly see the battle scene.

This problem so far is only happening when i choose the mysians to control and i'm just wondering if this is a problem limited to the demo or if it's something i would have to deal with if i end up wanting to buy the full game.

Post by **pipfromslitherine** » Sat May 21, 2005 8:39 pm

When you reboot the game will have switched to 2D mode (this is a defense mechanic against people having problems at startup). Simply use the 2D/3D button to toggle back to 3D mode.

We will have to try and duplicate your bug and see if the demo requires a fix.

Cheers

Pip

joseph_kerr · Post by **joseph_kerr** » Sun May 22, 2005 7:59 am

Doh, guess i should have tried the 2D feature before and i could have known that. Ha, well now i do, thank you.

joseph_kerr · Post by **joseph_kerr** » Sun Jun 19, 2005 7:22 am

I've sort of found out what's making this demo crash for me. Most of the eastern cities have a unit in it's pre-made army that don't seem to be any regular unit. Their icon is a peasant icon and they're only titled as 'x' but they seem to be a sparabara unit. Anytime i use one of these units to attack a city, or attack a city with one of them defending it the game crashes saying it's encountered a problem and switches to 2-D mode. This doesn't happen with regular sparabara units i make myself, only these pre-made units.

Post by **IainMcNeil** » Mon Jun 20, 2005 8:38 am

Its possible there was a problem during installation and something has become corrupt. I'd reccomend you uninstall, then DELETE the Gates of Troy demo dir in Program files. Then reinstall and hopefully it will all work for you.

joseph_kerr · Post by **joseph_kerr** » Mon Jun 20, 2005 4:35 pm

I've done that so maybe it's the demo itself got corrupted when i was downloading it, i can't remember where i downloaded it from now but i do remember another demo i downloaded from the same site didn't even work at all.

My main interest is more in the actual game anyways rather than the demo. So these 'x' units i'm seeing are not something i'd find in the bought game but are just a corruption of the demo that i have?

Post by **IainMcNeil** » Mon Jun 20, 2005 5:00 pm

We've not had it reported by other people so it definitely shouldn't happen!