Germany Surrenders crash to desktop.

[wheels0132]

Went through several pages and found one similar problem where the computer crashes right after you click "OK" when Germany surrenders. A support person asked one further question regarding this but never followed up on the guy who had the problem. (Page 3 or something.)

Germany is mostly defeated except for northern France, BeNeLux and western Germany. As I begin my final push, they surrender, I say "OK" and the game CTD. I'm playing Armageddon, so I don't have any patches installed.

Is there some sort of fix I can do to prevent this CTD when Germany surrenders? This has happened to me before in another game and I can never move on to the Cold War since the end of WWII always results in a crash!

 

[wheels0132]

I haven't been to the HOI2 forum in a while (been soaking up the HOI3 forums!) So it seems I missed some patches. I think I might still be running Armageddon 1.0. I'll go ahead and assume that once I implement 1.2 and then 1.3, that I will no longer have this problem? I'll install them tonight and post the results.

 

[wheels0132]

It doesn't look like too many people are that interested in this topic, but I'll go ahead and post anyway.

I installed 1.2 and then tried to install 1.3 which wouldn't take, I tried replacing the files, but I probably did something wrong. In any case, I now have Armageddon 1.2 in place.

I saved the game just prior to when I believed Gemany would surrender, and then let the game run. Everything froze up for about 8 seconds or so (which is normal with my computer when major changes take place (like Japan annexing Nationalist China) and then the game proceeded like normal--Soviet Union annexed Germany and the game was playable. I tried it again, and the game crashed to desktop. Tried it once more and the game played on like it was supposed to.

So post 1.2 patch, the game didn't crash 66% if the time (of course the data is extremely limited.) So I think that depending on what the Soviet Union chooses for the German surrender event, dictates whether or not the game will crash. I'm still not sure what causes this.

Something I wanted to say regarding game play: Why the hell does the Soviet Union get German territory behind American and British lines in Western Europe? This sucks!!! I did all the work beating back the Germans in western Europe, and BeNeLux and northwest France goes to the Soviet Union! I tried my best to limit the Soviet advance by blitzing up towards Denmark and successfully kept the Soviets on the exact historical lines that the iron curtain would be built. Now a Soviet exclave exists on the English channel, why does this happen?