MP CTD on Annex

[Traveler]

* Publisher and Version
I have two computers, I’ll list as (A) and (B), that I use.

(A & B) Victoria Strategy First version 1.03 (**no MODs**)

* Operating System

(A & B) Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition (5.1, build 2600)

* Computer Make Model CPU & Speed

(A) AMD Athlon XP 2600+, MMX, 3dNow, 1.9 GHz

(B) Intel Pentium4 2.60 GHz

* Memory

(A & B) Corsair 1024MB PC3200 400MHz 2-512MB XMS TwinX
Dual-Channel DDR Memory

* Free Disk Space

(A) Capacity 19.0 GB, Used 6.08 GB, Free 12.9 GB

(B) Capacity 57.2 GB, Used 7.33 GB, Free 49.9 GB

* Video Card

(A) ATI Radeon 9800 Pro AGP w/ version 6.14.0010.6414
(English) and 128 MB of memory used for a plug and play monitor

(B) ATI Radeon 9600 XT AGP w/ version 6.14.0010.6414
(English) and 128 MB of memory used for a plug and play monitor

* Sound

(A) Name: NVIDIA nforce Audio Type: WDM Device ID: NFORCE_VAD
w/ version 6.14.0409.0000 (English)

(B) Name: Realtek AC97 Audio Type:WDM Device ID: PCI\VEN_8086DEV_24D5SUBSYS_240317F2REV_0
w/ version 5.10.0000.5100 (English)

* DirectX Version Installed

(A & B) DirectX 9.0b (4.09.0000.0902)

* Other Hardware

(A) An old Gateway Standard Keyboard, A logitech Trackball

(B) AN old Gateway Standard Keyboard, A Microsoft Optical Mouse

* I think that's everything you asked for in the sticky

* Internet Conection

(A & B) Inigrated 10/100 Either Net Connection, Cable Modem, COX High Speed Internet , I don’t use a router, I do have a hub that connects the two computers to the cable modem

* The Problem

Have been trying to start a multiplayer game, you can look at our thread here . We have had the same problem, which has been duplicated several times. When ever one of us annexes another country the game crashes.

Now this has happened instantly when the player clicks the annex button in the diplomatic screen or a couple minutes after doing so. We’ve used different hosts as well as different countries who annex a smaller one. We have started a game and proceeded to DOW and then annex which resulted in a crash and have let several years go by then DOW, fight a long war, then annex with same result.

We also DOW’d larger countries fought a large war then negotiated a peace where we get several provinces with no crash. I have save files of before and after annexing countries. I have asked the other players to add their computer stats in this thread. The two computers I listed above I have used to duplicate these problems.

I Thank you for any assistance that you can give.

Traveler

 

[Castellon]

Well I will throw you back to the MP forum as the experts there are more likely to be able to help.
*Moved

 

[King of Men]

My system is as follows :

Victoria Pan Vision version 1.03, no mods
Could this be the problem, since Traveller has Strategy First? But then, it still crashed when I was not playing.

Operating System
Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition 2002, Service Pack 1

Computer Make Model CPU & Speed

Dell DIMENSION 4600
Pentium 4, 2.66 GHz

Memory
512 MB. I'm cursed if I can find the manufacturer information anywhere; do I need to open up the box?

Free Disk Space

Capacity 74.5 GB, Used 8.2 GB, Free 66.3 GB.

Video Card
Intel(R) 82865G Graphics Controller
64 MB for a plug-and-play monitor

Sound
Analog Devices, Inc.
SoundMAX Integrated Digital Audio

DirectX Version Installed
DirectX 9.0b, (4.09.0000.0902)

Other Hardware
PS/2 Microsoft mouse
Microsoft Natural PS/2 Keyboard

Internet connection
ADSL, cable modem.

 

[unmerged(16407)]

very very nasty bug, trav and I got it everytime we tried to play...

Vicky 1.03 vanilla no mod, fresh install.

OS: WinXP Pro

Comp Model: p4 by Humaneo 3.2 Ghz

Memory: 512 DDR COrsair (or sumthing like that)

HD: 250 GBs

V card: geforce 4 4600 ti

Sound Card: Soundblaster Live ! 5.1

 

[Fossa]

Got it too
Playing on a LAN. It's always the non-hosting computer that crashes for us no matter who does the annexing - host, non-host and even when the AI annexes. The non-host computer just freezes and then drops.

Something for patch 1.04

 

[Lotus Lo]

yes, ran into this again in our MP game. Seems if annexed country is not in any alliance it will be fine, but if part of an alliance ctd.

Just letting it get back towards the top of the MP thread some...

 

[Tori]

I've been getting this problem in multiplayer. Whenever a country is annexed the client computer will crash.

 

[unmerged(4253)]

I annexed both Bavaria and Krakow without incident, as they were not part of any alliance.

 

[Memnon]

yes, ran into this again in our MP game. Seems if annexed country is not in any alliance it will be fine, but if part of an alliance ctd.

Just letting it get back towards the top of the MP thread some...

This seems to be the case for me as well. I annexed Baden --> crash. Later, though, I annexed Annam --> no crash. Hm....except that Annam controlled Cambodia as a satellite, which I also annexed. Darn. Never mind about the alliance then I guess. Maybe there's another hole in the problem for uncivilized countries?

 

[Lamprey]

Doh! There goes unifying Italy or Germany in MP. You'd think someone would have seen this problem in beta testing for the game or one of the 4 patches out by now... wouldn't you?

 

[Lotus Lo]

Doh! There goes unifying Italy or Germany in MP. You'd think someone would have seen this problem in beta testing for the game or one of the 4 patches out by now... wouldn't you?

well, in our MP game italy is unified and prussia has all but 3-4 german minors... it just requires alot of restarting....

 

[Specterx]

Bump.

Does Paradox record this as a proper bug when they whisk it away to the MP forum? This really is a critical bug that needs fixing. It happens like clockwork, every time a nation in an alliance is annexed, the game crashes and we have to rehost.

Edit: I'm in a different game than the people who posted above.

 

[unmerged(21796)]

yeah, the bug just happened again today!, and some of the nations had no allies.....