Microsoft Runtime errors

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Since the latest patch, whenever i attempt to either use the large/huge pre-made maps, or go to map designer i get a Microsoft C++ runtime error.  As far as i can tell, no error log or mini-dump file is being created when this happens.

The small and medium maps work alright for me. (I have no custom maps)

Is anyone else experiencing this problem, or can suggest a solution?

Thanks!

Incase any of this is useful:

Windows Vista 64

I7 920 Core W/ 6 GB of RAM

GTX 285 / Video Drivers: 7.15.11.8122

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Reply #1 from Sins Forums Top

Also running Vista 64 and it's working fine on there (for the time being, at least).  However, something I noticed while going over the Galaxy folder to extract my custome maps was that the large & huge random maps didn't have the same modified dates as the other maps which struck me as odd.  Were these perhaps in need of an update that the others got with the most recent patch?

Reply #2 from Sins Forums Top

That is interesting, I'll try playing around with it tonight and see what's up. To clarify, these are not custom maps, but the stock game maps, correct?

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Reply #3 from Sins Forums Top

Yep, they're stock.  They're listed like the following: Huge Multi-System Random Map No Pirates.Galaxy and they have a modified date of 1/16/08 while the others have a modified date of 2/19/09 (using mm/dd/yy format)

Reply #4 from Sins Forums Top

Ahh. Do other ones work? Any map that doesn't have the "no pirates" thing? Ironclad removed these maps from distribution since they included the no pirates option a while ago, so you still have the non-updated ones. This latest patch did something to the maps, so earlier version ones do Very Bad Things.

Reply #5 from Sins Forums Top

Interesting stuff.  I'm not at that PC at the moment, but I'll see what I can find later on.

Reply #6 from Sins Forums Top

annatar11 the changes in the map files are as follows

quickstart & normalstart homeworld upgraded levels, quickstart & normalstart upgrade levels on each planet and the infrastructure upgrade level listed on each planet all while keeping the map version at 2,

I found out these things by compareing the old ancient gifts with the new ancient gifts

if the devs had bumped the map version to 3 & required it in maps the map issue would not have happened & players would have bitched about their custom maps not working/being found, personally I would have preferred the versionnumber to change.

I am just starting to write a map update program that should be able to correct all of these changes and allow for any future format changes.

harpo