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10 years ago
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Original C&C crashing upon Nod mission 9 start-up

So I've been working my way through the original C&C from the ultimate bundle and have been doing the NOD campaign. I have reached mission 9 (I believe) and it crashes as soon as the mission starts. ...
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    Nyerguds
    10 years ago

    @BrutalBarracuda

    Heh. All I really needed was that one shot at 2:49. The error message says that the instruction address is 00432421.

    I just looked it up, and that's indeed one of the places in the exe that's been edited in the patch to fix a crash. So just install the C&C95 v1.06 patch I linked to, and it should work again 🙂

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    It's the flare crashing the game. You get a flare near the top left corner of the map at the start, and it seems it has a reveal radius of 5 cells around the central cell. The full map only goes on for 4 cells above the location of the flare (1 in the playable map, 3 more outside it), so that's what crashes it.

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Nyerguds
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10 years ago

@BrutalBarracuda

Heh. All I really needed was that one shot at 2:49. The error message says that the instruction address is 00432421.

I just looked it up, and that's indeed one of the places in the exe that's been edited in the patch to fix a crash. So just install the C&C95 v1.06 patch I linked to, and it should work again 🙂

[edit]

It's the flare crashing the game. You get a flare near the top left corner of the map at the start, and it seems it has a reveal radius of 5 cells around the central cell. The full map only goes on for 4 cells above the location of the flare (1 in the playable map, 3 more outside it), so that's what crashes it.

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    Anonymous
    10 years ago

    @Nyerguds Holy *bags! Thank you so much! It worked a treat and its so much nicer on the eyes! You truely have earned your hero standing!

    P.S. I don't suppose there is a way to slow down the mouse scroll is there? Even on slowest its still super fast! 

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      Nyerguds
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      10 years ago

      @BrutalBarracuda

      The fast scroll bug is caused by the fact the scroll speed scales up with your game's frame rate, which scales up with your CPU power.

      If you go to the game folder and run the CCConfig tool (which was added with the patch), you will see on the Visual Options tab that there's an option to limit the frame rate. It's known to help with that. Another option on the tool that sometimes helps is to enable the back buffer in video memory, though I think the patch should enable that one by default anyway.

      (If you don't know how to get to the game folder... Open the Origin menu and select "Application Settings". In the settings screen, go to the "Advanced" section. Copy the address in the grey box, paste it in your Windows file explorer's address bar, and press [enter]. In the folder where you end up you will see the actual installation folders of your games.)

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        Anonymous
        10 years ago

        @Nyerguds Yep, you're spot on again. Worked a treat! That fast scroll was a pain in the rear!

        Cheers buddy. You may have just won my award for the most helpful person on the internet. Ever.

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