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Posted: **Sat Nov 16, 2013 9:27 pm**

I've noticed a lot of people report crashing shortly after starting a game when using windows 8. I don't know what causes it.

Someone crashed out of an 18 player battle yesterday. It wasn't a network disconnect, their game crashed and they got the Windows "has stopped working" error. Below is the log file and the end of it:

http://sow.philipmcg.com/gcm/mplogs/20653/mp_log_battle_20653_player_1120.zip

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13644970,3in Ordnance      2Lt R Horton,447,10,2,1000,944,36,0,0,19,36616.54,51499.80,0.91,-0.42,46971.41,46638.47,0.72,0.70,0
13644970,PREAI,0,1,731,0,19,19,1000,944
13644970,ENDUPDATE,10,2,1000,944,0,0,19,36623.31,51496.63,0.91,-0.42,46971.41,46638.47,0.72,0.70,0
13644970, Objective Holder,448,1,2,1,100,36,0,0,0,37566.00,60275.19,0.42,-0.91,44304.95,45505.98,0.72,0.70,0
13644970,PREAI,0,1,1669,0,0,0,1,100
13644970,ENDUPDATE,1,2,1,100,0,0,0,37569.10,60268.39,0.42,-0.91,44304.95,45505.98,0.72,0.70,0
13644970,Objective Holder Wagon,449,10,4,450,1000,36,0,0,8,37763.00,60494.00,1.00,0.00,37763.00,60494.00,1.00,0.00,1
13644970,PREAI,0,1,1999,0,8,8,450,1000
13644970,ENDUPDATE,10,4,450,1000,0,0,8,37763.00,60494.00,1.00,0.00,37763.00,60494.00,1.00,0.00,1
13644970,Ordnance Supply Wagon,450,10,4,450,1000,36,0,0,8,36263.00,60494.00,1.00,0.00,36263.00,60494.00,1.00,0.00,1
13644970,PREAI,0,1,1859,0,8,8,450,1000
13644970,ENDUPDATE,10,4,450,1000,0,0,8,36263.00,60494.00,1.00,0.00,36263.00,60494.00,1.00,0.00,1
13644970,LOWFRAME,5,0,227,228,6,0:735 Willard
13644970,HAVEFRAME,5,0,228,228,6,0:735 Willard
13644970,GOODFRAME,6,0,229,228,6,0:735 Willard
13644970,LOWFRAME,5,0,226,228,6,0:735 Willard
8,1000,1000,0,0,19,58607.81,63476.68,-0.77,0.64,84917.76,50535.41,0.98,-0.17,0
13635178,Brig Gen Oliver Caffey,354,1,2,1,100,40,0,0,0,62225.20,50185.54,-0.56,0.83,82516.55,51972.41,0.98,-0.17,0
13635178,PREAI,0,1,222,0,0,0,1,100
13635178,ENDUPDATE,1,2,1,100,0,0,0,62224.23,50186.98,-0.56,0.83,82516.55,51972.41,0.98,-0.17,0
13635178,3rd Missouri      Maj W Stewart,355,419,106,1000,1000,40,0,0,19,61057.21,52120.32,-0.12,0.99,81925.75,52077.09,0.98,-0.17,0
13635178,PREAI,0,1,854,0,19,19,1000,1000
13635178,ENDUPDATE,419,106,1000,1000,0,0,19,61055.79,52131.64,-0.12,0.99,81925.75,52077.09,0.98,-0.17,0
13635178,2nd Missouri      Lt Col R Daniels,356,353,90,1000,1000,40,96,0,19,62136.65,49805.19,-0.45,0.89,81838.86,51586.73,0.98,-0.17,0
13635178,PREAI,0,1,434,0,19,19,1000,1000
13635178,ENDUPDATE,353,90,1000,1000,96,0,19,62135.66,49807.15,-0.45,0.89,81838.86,51586.73,0.98,-0.17,0
13635178,Capt John S Yalsig,357,1,2,1,100,40,0,0,0,57918.09,55653.29,0.04,-1.00,76849.33,52976.61,0.98,-0.17,0
13635178,PREAI,0,1,2378,0,0,0,1,100

Just posting for reference. If this happens again and other people get their log files we might figure something out.

Posted: **Tue Nov 19, 2013 5:25 am**

This would be me who crashed.

It should be noted that I'm on 8.1, which I guess might yet have different issues than 8 (or not), so I'll mention that just for reference.

I was also able to join a few games now without crashing while having the Windows Firewall deactivated. Previously I've been able to join games without crashing while having it activated, however, just that every few games or so I would get said crashes. I'll report back if I can see a correlation between the crashes and having the firewall running while playing the game.

Posted: **Fri Dec 06, 2013 4:34 pm**

FYI, I'm on 8.1 too. I get crashes even when playing single player, maybe 10% of the
games crash before completing. I think I get a popup window stating something like
"an application has stopped working, click to exit".

Because of this I stopped playing MP a while ago and I haven't been following this
forum much recently. I'll also try to check for any correlations...

Posted: **Sat Dec 07, 2013 6:20 am**

Are there any errors listed in your sowgb.log file?

-Jim

Posted: **Sat Dec 07, 2013 5:03 pm**

>Are there any errors listed in your sowgb.log file?

Here it is...

Posted: **Sat Dec 07, 2013 9:40 pm**

Mod related problems.

Posted: **Sat Dec 07, 2013 10:15 pm**

I can get around to fixing those, they're all GCM errors that all of us get. Would be quite a relief if they were the cause of all the windows 8 crashes but we'll see.

Posted: **Sat Dec 07, 2013 10:55 pm**

OK, those errors won't appear anymore, we'll see if we get more of these crashes.

Posted: **Mon Dec 09, 2013 11:46 am**

We played MP sandbox tonight and had a crash within 10 minutes with GCM 745 on ECF. Switched to vanilla (no mods) and had no problems. This is consistent with the behavior we've seen in the past few weeks with GCM and Bugles' mod. One player (me) is on Windows 8.0 and always gets the crashes. The other player is on 7 and seems stable. Unfortunately I have no more information - I appreciate that a 'me too' bug report without a log or stacktrace is not very useful, sorry.

Posted: **Mon Dec 09, 2013 10:25 pm**

Hm, maybe it is a GCM problem, but it's not related to those logfile errors since those are fixed.

It's too bad that it only happens on windows 8 so it's much harder to track down.

Curious what you mean by playing sandbox with GCM, they're really not compatible -- i.e. you should see problems if you try to play sandbox with GCM mods active. (GCM gameplay mods expect OOBs to be generated by GCM.)

We do have a number of GCM players who are on windows 8 and have no problems too, so the crash doesn't always occur. Or possibly it's a combination of GCM and other mods. Did you have any other mods activated at the same time?

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