Beta / Alpha patches crash TTD for some unknown reason

[Kingsley Jarrett]

I havent been on this newsgroup for a period of time but im back now

I decided to get the latest alpha of the patch but to my suprise when i ran
it it crashed TTD as soon as it got to the Startup screen. Before that i
heard the theme tune but i didnt see microprose.

TTD Patch has generated no error log or no error message, it just quits.

Please could you tell me what is going wrong becuase I have seen the new
features of the patch and I am eager to use them!

Thank You

Kingsley Jarrett

[Patchman]

Kingsley Jarrett wrote on Sun, 4 Apr 2004 09:30:47 +0100:

I havent been on this newsgroup for a period of time but im back now

I decided to get the latest alpha of the patch but to my suprise when i ran
it it crashed TTD as soon as it got to the Startup screen. Before that i
heard the theme tune but i didnt see microprose.

Are you sure you have the latest version, alpha 22? Because there was a
crash like that in alpha 20 or 21.

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[Kingsley Jarrett]

I have tried Alpha 18 and 22

"Josef Drexler" <nospam0...@joesbox.cjb.net> wrote in message
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Kingsley Jarrett wrote on Sun, 4 Apr 2004 09:30:47 +0100:
I havent been on this newsgroup for a period of time but im back now

I decided to get the latest alpha of the patch but to my suprise when i
ran
it it crashed TTD as soon as it got to the Startup screen. Before that i
heard the theme tune but i didnt see microprose.

Are you sure you have the latest version, alpha 22? Because there was a
crash like that in alpha 20 or 21.

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[Patchman]

Kingsley Jarrett wrote on Sun, 4 Apr 2004 18:10:28 +0100:

I have tried Alpha 18 and 22

Then I can only guess that it's an old graphics file which is causing
this. Try removing files from newgrfw.cfg one by one, and see if there's
one that causes the crash.

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[Kingsley Jarrett]

Yep, it was a GRF file causing the error - investigating....
"Josef Drexler" <nospam0...@joesbox.cjb.net> wrote in message
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Kingsley Jarrett wrote on Sun, 4 Apr 2004 18:10:28 +0100:
I have tried Alpha 18 and 22

Then I can only guess that it's an old graphics file which is causing
this. Try removing files from newgrfw.cfg one by one, and see if there's
one that causes the crash.

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[Kingsley Jarrett]

Found the troublesome one - newshipsw.grf

"Josef Drexler" <nospam0...@joesbox.cjb.net> wrote in message
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Kingsley Jarrett wrote on Sun, 4 Apr 2004 18:10:28 +0100:
I have tried Alpha 18 and 22

Then I can only guess that it's an old graphics file which is causing
this. Try removing files from newgrfw.cfg one by one, and see if there's
one that causes the crash.

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