Elevation display glitch

[rbodleyscott]

Hi Morbio,

It would be helpful if I could play an MP challenge with you, which might help us to pin down the moment when the bug occurs.

Please could you set up a passworded custom battle challenge for me to accept.

[Morbio]

I'm not an expert, but looking at DXDiag I see the following...
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Diagnostics
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Windows Error Reporting:
+++ WER0 +++:
Fault bucket 1814159365491500530, type 5
Event Name: RADAR_PRE_LEAK_WOW64
Response: Not available
Cab Id: 0

Problem signature:
P1: FIELDOFGLORY2.EXE
P2: 0.0.0.0
P3: 10.0.17134.2.0.0
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Is this relevant?

[Morbio]

Hi Morbio,

It would be helpful if I could play an MP challenge with you, which might help us to pin down the moment when the bug occurs.

Please could you set up a passworded custom battle challenge for me to accept.

I'd like that, thank you!

I've posted a game of my favourite army versus their historical enemy... Carthage vs Rome. Password is Elevation

[melm]

I looked closely with map rotation. And I've found that there is no elevation at all on the map. It is indeed "open ground" although the tile uses the hillslope-looking tile.

[rbodleyscott]

I looked closely with map rotation. And I've found that there is no elevation at all on the map. It is indeed "open ground" although the tile uses the hillslope-looking tile.

Have you, or anybody else, had this issue in games other than against Morbio?

[melm]

I looked closely with map rotation. And I've found that there is no elevation at all on the map. It is indeed "open ground" although the tile uses the hillslope-looking tile.

Have you, or anybody else, had this issue in games other than against Morbio?

Not yet.

[Brenmusik]

Only yesterdays game against Morbio, but tonight I fight meim. I'll let you know.

[Najanaja]

I have seen this as well.

I can't remember if I was playing Morbio.

He may remember, because neither of us noticed that it had happened till the last turn when my opponent remarked that he had held off his attack because he thought I was on a long hill. I said there definitely was a hill there when I deployed. Then the game ended.

[Morbio]

I have seen this as well.

I can't remember if I was playing Morbio.

He may remember, because neither of us noticed that it had happened till the last turn when my opponent remarked that he had held off his attack because he thought I was on a long hill. I said there definitely was a hill there when I deployed. Then the game ended.

Yup, I think that was one of mine!

[rbodleyscott]

We think we have identified the cause of this issue. It appears that Google Drive (which Morbio had set to backup the whole of his Documents folder, including the /Documents/My Games/FieldOfGlory2 folder) was interfering with FOG2 writing a temporary file when reading in the MP turn data from the server. This was preventing the end of the file (which contains the height data) from being written, and hence from being read into the game correctly.

And then of course, as the height data has been initialised to 0, but not read in correctly, at the end of Morbio's turn the game save would contain zeroed height data. Which means that the data would be permanently lost for that particular MP game.

Pip is working on a possible way to prevent Google Drive from interfering, but in the meantime the answer appears to be not to use Google Drive to back up this folder.

[Morbio]

So far all games that have started since I took Documents out of Google Drive synchronisation are working well, it'll probably take a few more games to be sure, but all is positive so far!