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I have read the stickies, but there is nothing there that lists my problem. First things first: HOI 1.06 patch installed.
AMD Athlon 2600
MSI KT4VL
WinXP Pro
768 MB RAM

My game crashes to desktop randomly. Happens perhaps once/twice per extended playing session; about 3 hours. Haven't noticed that I was doing any one thing for the game to crash, it appears to be totally random. Its not that serious of a problem because I autosave every month, but it is annoying. Any help would be appreciated
 

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Can you confirm for me that you have done the following and kept those settings.

1) Rename the AVI folder to AVI_back
2) Set the color depth to 16BIT
3) Turn off everything in the background like E-mail/ICQ/Messenger, Virus protection and everything in the system tray beside the clock.
 

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What does it do?

Castellon said:
Can you confirm for me that you have done the following and kept those settings.

1) Rename the AVI folder to AVI_back
2) Set the color depth to 16BIT
3) Turn off everything in the background like E-mail/ICQ/Messenger, Virus protection and everything in the system tray beside the clock.

Renaming the AVI folder to AVI_back. What does that do?
 

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Cid Yama said:
Renaming the AVI folder to AVI_back. What does that do?
Fixes problems. ;)
If you are having one please start a new thread.
 

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TheOx said:
No, I have not done those things, but I will. Thanks for your help.
Let me know how it goes.
 

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Having trouble!!!

Im having the same problem. Hoi is crashing to desktop. I changed color graghics to 16 bit., then i tried renaming the AVI folder to AVI_back, but i wasnt sure where to find AVI folder so i searched HOI editor file and when i tried clicking on that file i recieved this:

Error:(UnKnown Type in LandDivision)'speed_cap_art=5'Line=16 file=db/units/infantry.txt---

Do you know if this error has anything to do with my HOI crashing to desk top?
And also, what and where is my AVI folder?

thank you
 

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The AVI folder should be a sub folder of your main HOI folder, if you do not have one something is wrong with the install or you have a Pirate copy.
 

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cool i did everything you suggested.

Castellon said:
The AVI folder should be a sub folder of your main HOI folder, if you do not have one something is wrong with the install or you have a Pirate copy.
thanks,
Do you have any idea what that error meant? (i posted it on my last repy.)
it appeard when i tried to open hoi editor.
 

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There maybe a second copy of the editor, other wise the current one was the wrong version for that patch. :(

Most people use a text editor to do modding anyway.
 

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so maybe i downloaded the wrong patch?

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There maybe a second copy of the editor, other wise the current one was the wrong version for that patch. :(

Most people use a text editor to do modding anyway.

what do you think? I tried playing the game just now and it is worse then ever. It keeps crashing to the desktop.Im guessing it might be the patch i got.
 

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Patch should be fine di dyou get it from Paradox plaza download page?
 

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UnKnown Type in LandDivision)'speed_cap_art=5'Line=16 file=db/units/infantry.txt---

This error typically occurs when a patch did not install correctly, this is most easily verified by checking the date on the file HoI.exe.
 

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BraveSirRobin said:
I looked for HoI.exe. but i didnt see it. I also couldnt find it on my comp files search.

What files are in your HOI directory that have custom icons?
 

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Also make sure you have nothing running in the back ground especially virus protection.
 

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BraveSirRobin said:
i searched HOI editor file and when i tried clicking on that file i recieved this:

Error:(UnKnown Type in LandDivision)'speed_cap_art=5'Line=16 file=db/units/infantry.txt---
Steel said:
This error typically occurs when a patch did not install correctly, this is most easily verified by checking the date on the file HoI.exe.
That would be the case if he got it when running hoi.exe; in this case he got it with the editor which happens because the editor supplied with patch 1.06 is apparently based on old code that doesn't recognize the 'speed_cap' parameters. See my bug report here.
Shouldn't have anything to do with HoI crashing.

To find HoI.exe or equivalent: check the properties of the shortcut you use to run the game.
 

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Don't worry I knew that, since I had logged it when the same thing happened in Beta. :) But was a little concerned when he cliamed he did not have and HOI.exe file in his HOI folder. There are some "special" versions out thier that do not. ;)
 

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cool thanks

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Don't worry I knew that, since I had logged it when the same thing happened in Beta. :) But was a little concerned when he cliamed he did not have and HOI.exe file in his HOI folder. There are some "special" versions out thier that do not. ;)

Hey thanks you guys. Ive been playing for the last two days without any crashes. It was the running programs in my trey that was messing it up, I just exited them all and seem to have no more problems.

Sorry for the extra new post.. nobody was replying to this one for a while a couple of days ago, so Ithought id post another.

thanks again.