F3 crash - intermittent in scenarios

[planetfall]

Description
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C3C intermittently crashes when switching to F3 screen.

Steps
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1. load scenario 2, rise of Rome
2. view victory conditions
3. view power settings
4. press F3

"Crash" != XP crashes, but C3C exits back to user background screen, not to user login screen.

Doesn't happen every time. In 100 turns, happened 3 times. Might be a fat finger problem of hitting both F3 and F4 at the same time.

Results
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Have not tried fat finger on purpose. Sometimes works and other times crashes.

Expected
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Military screen.

Notes
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Don't know severity of bug. Don't know if extends beyond one user or beyond XP multi user install.


-- PF

 

[Rik Meleet]

I am so sure when this happened to me (about 5 times in 7 games) I did NOT press F3 and F4 simultaniously.

With me C3C just ends; as if you choose "End Game" and it exits and shows my Desktop. I use Win XP.

I haven't had it sufficiently, but it seems that it happens after some 3 or 4 hours playing and more often when I load a game (I save / load when I go to bed, to work or dinner).

PTW never did this and neither did Vanilla.

<edit>The save
For what it's worth; I just opened the save again and it didn't crash. It seems it's a moment in time or randomly generated or a special key-combination that triggers it. It just looks like pressing <Esc> and <Y> (to confirm) in 1.
</edit>

 

[junuil]

Press F3,me too.

 

[planetfall]

May be a problem with the early scenarios. I have not experienced the bug in the middle to late scenarios or first epic game.

Of course I have been more carefully about not pressing multiple keys on the
top keyboard line so problem could still be there.

-- PF

 

[Zenon_pt]

I was playing the epical game, with the Portuguese and wend I clik on F1... SAYONARA game!!!

 

[haggi]

I dont use F3 anymore, it has crashed more times than I care to remember after hitting the F3 key, bit of a nuisance but starting the same turn over and over is worse.

 

[Kaboth]

Yep I've experienced this bug in epic game on Windows XP. hit F3 and game crashes with no error message.

 

[planetfall]

Update-- epic game, end of turn, wait at end of turn active. Press F4 running winxp, and game crashes.

== PF

 

[Chieftess]

Post a save if you can reproduce it in the same save.