Comments - NapalmSoul

I used to make some scenarios for myself based on WWII battles, some 5-6 years ago... but never made one where objectives were separate for both sides, not even sure if the game intended to have such support, but I can barely remember the editor, let alone scripting/trigger work. And online, well obviously the services are down, but virtual LAN works just fine with just about any game. Last time we used ZeroTierOne, it's a bit harder to setup, especially if you need to explain all your buds what to do, but it's not riddled with shady ads or other stuff, quite safe. Hamatchi would probably be the easiest way. Make a Hamatchi account, create a vLAN network, get your buddies to install Hamatchi, connect to the same vLAN, create a lobby in A&A, mark it as LAN - boom, others will see if they look for lobbies in LAN. Did this with Uncommon Valor 4.1 last time I remember.

Thanks for all the help. Yeah the computer resources definitely isn't the issue as I can run any modern game on high or maxxed out graphics at 1080 res and crank ~70 FPS out. Tried to play a vanilla game on max map size and 6 nations involved and guess what - no crashing, even if the game runs kinda laggy. So re-installed from original ISO, proper mod installation, game seems to run fine most of the time, 800x map sizes or less, some 6 nations - haven't crashed yet. Yeah the 32-bit applications using 4GB of RAM is only in theory, some older games can be capped at 1 or 2 and this game seems to crash for me when it hits exactly 1, so that probably concludes the reason why. From all the modding and gaming in general - never had this before. Usually I'm proficient at applications, but this one was a piece of work. Seems that it was just me pushing the game over it's limitations. There's a universal 4GB patcher for 32-bit apps, enabling them to use 4GB instead of 1 or 2, works with many games, sadly not this one, will keep stress testing it. I love the game and this is one of my all-time favorites, maybe I'll find some workaround so me and a couple buddies of mine can have some epic massive battles on co-op :)

Yeah so reinstalled the game clean, applied the mod correctly and messed around with various matches and settings and I'm pretty sure the game just runs out of memory as crashing doesn't happen on when there are less players with less nation variety in a game. Let's say a 2v2 only GER vs RUS goes fine, but a 3v3v3 game, with 5 nations even on small map seems to crash the game when many units clash together

Thanks for the answer. Win XP SP2 compatibility, running as admin, now also on C drive (wasn't before, log actually shown access violation, found where the actual error code is in the log). I am sure I installed the mod correctly, as there's not much to do besides copying the files. The map sizes are 960x, 1024x and 1088x, a 2v2v3 match, did 6 matches for testing, same nations - crashes happen anywhere between game time minutes 36 and 54. After "re-installing" the game into C drive, I get error violation C0000005, which leads to registry, likely to do with the fact that the game I have is already installed by me, I just packed it into a .zip (by that I mean it's a pre-installed game), will try re-installing from the actual ISO. I mean I run games like NFS 5 - Porsche Unleashed, Hard Truck 2, and yes Red Alert 2 & 3 - no problems... And yeah could be that the game is actually running out of memory, but sadly the game still crashes

Okay so I found out that I do have the file, but I can't relate the crash to spawning a certain unit, not yet at least

Hello, I've got an issue and I'm wondering if anyone could help. I encounter a random crash usually a certain amount of time into the game. I've checked the log file and all I've noticed that it always ends with the app trying to look for process/file MSVFW32.dll, then the game just writes the log and shuts down. I am running on Win XP SP2 compatibility and I noticed that such a process MSVFW32 is not present nor running, I know that service is responsible for bitmap image compression (maybe this info will help). At this point I cannot complete any one match that s somewhat larger or longer. The lookup for this file only occurs once in the log - at the end.
By the way this mod is just legendary, thank you for your time and work Gizmotron