My friend and I are trying to play FFP in multiplayer. He has WinXP Pro SP3, and I have Vista Home Basic SP1. We are both patched to the most recent for FfH, FF, and FFP. We started a game, and after turn 25 we have had a string of OOS errors, making it unplayable. We tried finding the 'cache' folder from an earlier thread but can't locate it on either of our computers. Can anyone help us? And if you can, can you give us a dummies' guide to fix the issue?
OOS issues
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To immediately fix the problem, have one person save, and then have that person host the save and relaunch from a staging room -with you in it-.
There are few -if any- preventative measures that completely insure a fully synced game forever; although, there is a modset, that by fully removing multiple features, vastly reduces the number of encountered OOSs. This might work with FF+ but I'm not entirely sure.
If that doesn't work, some things you might want to do, to avoid OOSs, would be to: have fewer teams, fewer AI, play on the same team as the other human player, and/or reduce the map size.
To truly fix the OOSs from happening the cause would have to be traced back -with the help of an OOS log/logger- and altered/fixed.
There are few -if any- preventative measures that completely insure a fully synced game forever; although, there is a modset, that by fully removing multiple features, vastly reduces the number of encountered OOSs. This might work with FF+ but I'm not entirely sure.
If that doesn't work, some things you might want to do, to avoid OOSs, would be to: have fewer teams, fewer AI, play on the same team as the other human player, and/or reduce the map size.
To truly fix the OOSs from happening the cause would have to be traced back -with the help of an OOS log/logger- and altered/fixed.
Iceciro
Special Ability: Decimate
I will say, that the OOSes may be caused by
The Kuriotate Civilization
The Jotnar Civilization
Ranged Attacks
The City of a Thousand Slums
Any of the standard things that cause an OOS can cause one too, but by removing the four things above, I have been able to play huge (22AIs, 4 players) games up to completion with maybe one or two out of synchs, with a current record of 590 turns with no OOS.
Additionally, I don't currently play Fall Plus, so there's no telling here. The mods above may fix the problem, but any new ranged units added in Fall Plus will probably still screw things up.
The problem lies with the code core, not any specific use of the things - the random numbers get messed up and a use of a ranged attack may not cause a OOS that turn, but as more random numbers are misplaced, the OOS becomes inevitable.
The Kuriotate Civilization
The Jotnar Civilization
Ranged Attacks
The City of a Thousand Slums
Any of the standard things that cause an OOS can cause one too, but by removing the four things above, I have been able to play huge (22AIs, 4 players) games up to completion with maybe one or two out of synchs, with a current record of 590 turns with no OOS.
Additionally, I don't currently play Fall Plus, so there's no telling here. The mods above may fix the problem, but any new ranged units added in Fall Plus will probably still screw things up.
The problem lies with the code core, not any specific use of the things - the random numbers get messed up and a use of a ranged attack may not cause a OOS that turn, but as more random numbers are misplaced, the OOS becomes inevitable.
