1.20 release problems

[papapnut]

I wanted to relay some problems I've been having with the 1.20 release that either did not occur before or at a lower frequency. It is mainly related to the uploading of completed turns. In the past I have experienced sending a completed turn and having it sit there and just saying uploading file....forever.....no time out or abort and resend ability. I have to reboot the machine to clear it up. There is nothing wrong with my connection as I can bring up the task manager and launch a browser and the internet is fully functional.

The new problem is the program actually crashing to the desktop when I hit upload turn. This has happened 5 or 6 times now and never happened with V1.14 or any beta version.

System: Laptop 2.4 Ghz Core duo, 4 mb, ATI graphics @ 1440x900 Win XP Pro SP3

It also happens on my Win7 desktop with i5-2500K @ 4.5gHz

This has increased in frequency to the point where I just reboot after every 4 or 5 turns just so I don;t have to deal with it. Thought you'd like to know.

[Tarrak]

I assume you are talking about multiplayer aren't you? I have very limited multiplayer experience so i am afraid i can't help you here. You need to wait until someone with more experience in this area gets on.

P.S. I moved the topic to tech support subforum where you have higher chances of catching some attention and receiving some help.

[papapnut]

Yes, this refers to uploading a completed turn in multi-player only.

[Tarrak]

One thing you could check maybe. If i remember right Panzer Corps unlike most other games and programms is using the windows proxy system settings (the same as in internet Explorer) when connecting to the internet. You may want to check if there is nothing wrong set there. Even or maybe especially in case you aren't using IE as primary browser it may have some old settings left there which confuse PC.

[papapnut]

I checked and everything seemed normal and regardless it hasn't been changed. A little more info the hanging on turn upload can happen on any scenario after playing turns in 5 or 6 consecutive multiplayer games. The crashes only happen on the new scenarios Sonneblume 43 and Red Alert. Crashes have occurred both at the end of the opponent's turn replay and at the end of my turn when uploading the completed turn.

[Razz1]

You can have a good connection, but that doesn't mean the sever doesn't have a problem or some IP along the way.

Usually I just wait and then the turn goes through.


If not you get a chance to replay the turn.

[papapnut]

You can have a good connection, but that doesn't mean the sever doesn't have a problem or some IP along the way.
Usually I just wait and then the turn goes through.
If not you get a chance to replay the turn.

Thank you, I do wait a long time. Once it hangs it has only ever gone through once. Most of the time it hangs completely, after waiting 15 minutes I just reboot. The actual crashing with 1.20 on sonnebrom 43, red alert and now the void continues. I just got a nasty gram from the server saying I'm downloading turns more than once and I'll get booted if it continues. Never had anywhere close to this many problems with 1.14.

I'm about ready to wipe the hard drive and to a clean install of the OS, but I'd like to get some sort of concrete diagnostic assistance before wasting a day to rebuild my system.

[VPaulus]

Are you using any mods?
The issue here is that I haven't seen anybody complained with crashing in these two scenarios, or in fact with any multiplayer scenarios after 1.20.
Can't you try connecting through a different communication structure? Are you using wireless?

[papapnut]

The hanging with 1.20 got so bad, I reformatted my hard disk and upgraded from XP to Windows7. This seems to have taken care of the problem(mostly). After dozens of games, I have only had one crash on scenario load since.