SOW Gettysburg and Win 8 ??

[JohnVW]

thanks, i'll give it a try...

[JohnVW]

ok...we tried a 3-player online (SOW lobby) game last night:
- all other programs (like webroot) are "off"
- used a scenario i'd created (i'd played this exact scenario twice solo earlier in the day, with no issues at all)
- all 3 players had the scenario installed correctly
- it's a scenario we've all played before, online, but before i'd gone to Win 8.1 64bit
- they both are on Win 7
- we all got into the lobby fine, and into the game room fine
- we all "selected" who we would be in the game, and then the host launched the game
- we tried 4-5 times, and 4 of the times they made it to the game ok, but I got "windows has stopped working" and had to call them to exit the game, leave SOW, and re-enter lobby, etc., etc.
- the 5th time none of us made it to the "field" (no "stars")
- so...we scrapped the scenario, had another player host, and setup a basic sandbox 3-player game...
- I would still get "windows has stopped working" and we called it a night
- I've attached the latest log file here
- any ideas what's going on?

[JohnVW]

ok...I looked at the log file i'd just emailed you, and saw these "notations" near where we were booted out (which I copied into a .doc file, and have attached here)??

can you tell from this what happened? thanks...

08:00:00 Verifying Terrain Integrity
08:00:00 Planting Shrubbery
08:00:00 Mapping Roads
08:00:00 Avoiding Buildings
08:00:00 Total Collision Objs:621
08:00:00 Drafting chain of command
08:00:00 Chain of Command: Top Commander Maj Gen George G Meade
08:00:00 Chain of Command: Top Commander General Robert E Lee
08:00:00 Loading Battle Events
08:00:00 PRESS SPACE BAR TO BEGIN
08:00:00 SowGB Level Loaded...
08:00:00 20:25:47
08:00:00 Waiting for all soldiers to arrive on the field.
08:00:00 735 Harry Cassidy is playing Maj Gen George G Meade
08:00:00 John_VW is playing Brig Gen John Gibbon
08:00:00 DaveVW is playing Brig Gen David Van Wagoner
08:00:00 Waiting for all soldiers to arrive on the battlefield... DaveVW
08:00:00 <MULTI> disconnect notification.
08:00:00 <MULTI> NAT server disconnected.
08:00:00 <SYSTEM> DaveVW map loaded.
08:00:00 Waiting for all soldiers to arrive on the battlefield... 735 Harry Cassidy
08:00:00 <SYSTEM> 735 Harry Cassidy map loaded.
08:00:00 Map mismatch with 735 Harry Cassidy.
08:00:00 Map mismatch, user dropped
08:00:00 Waiting for all soldiers to arrive on the battlefield...
08:00:00 <MULTI> disconnect notification.
08:00:00 <MULTI> connection lost.
08:00:00 <SYSTEM> 735 Harry Cassidy left the field.
08:00:00 <MULTI> disconnect notification.
08:00:00 <MULTI> connection lost.
08:00:00 <SYSTEM> DaveVW left the field.
08:00:40 Unloading Level
20:26:34 Loading Defined Lists

[Marching Thru Georgia]

The OS is not an issue here. Cassidy has a different version of the game map than the host. There is probably a mod active, Bugles&Flags most likely, which only one player is using.

[JohnVW]

no, we all had bugels and flags turned on...but i'm thinking he maybe didn't turn off the "textured maps" mod?

[Marching Thru Georgia]

The most likely culprit is the host and Cassidy had different versions of mapname.csv, where mapname is the name of the map you are playing on. Different mods change this. For mp play it is best if everyone use the same mods and activate them in the same order.

[Garnier]

What map was it?

[JohnVW]

we will try again later this week, and i'll post here either way...thanks...(but, it's still weird that i'm the only one who gets the "windows has stopped working" message...and that when we've played 118 min of a 120 min game, I can get booted with that message with just 2 min left to play...and no issues for the first 118 min??)

[JohnVW]

the scenario used one of the pipes creek maps (#1 I believe)...

[Garnier]

There are different issues going on here, not just one.

The games that crashed during loading due to a map mismatch have nothing to do with OS, that just means two players have different version of the map being used. This is probably due to having different mods.

The game where you crashed after playing for almost two hours, but other players didn't crash, seems more likely to be the windows 8 crash that we've been discussing already. I assume this game used a different map than the ones that crashed during loading.