Error when loading...

[Spanky Jones]

I receive the attached error when loading BOA. Following is the entry from the !Main Log.txt file as well. I received the error earlier this weekend so today I uninstalled, rebooted, installed and launched without problem, rebooted, patched to 1.02 and rebooted, and launched. I played just one turn of the Canada scenario and had to close down. About an hour later I wanted to start over and received the error right when BOA came to the game set up screen. I'd appreciate any help you can provide, I won't uninstall until you get a chance to see this post in case you need any more files.



8:32:38 PM (Reporting) USettings.LoadSettings 34 settings loaded, out of 2 settings files.
8:32:39 PM (Reporting) ULocalize.LoadLocalStrings: System local strings loaded from C:\Program Files\Birth of America\BoA\Settings\LocalStrings_BOA.csv
8:32:39 PM (Reporting) TAbiDefs.Create 35 Abilities loaded, out of 35 abilities files.
8:32:39 PM (Reporting) TTerrainDefs.Create 24 Terrains definitions loaded, out of 305 terrains files.
8:32:40 PM (Reporting) TListModels.Create 255 models loaded, out of 255 models files.
8:32:40 PM (Reporting) TStrucDefs.LoadFromFile 5 StrucDef loaded, out of 5 StrucDef files.
8:32:40 PM (Reporting) TFactionDefs.LoadFromFile 4 FactionDef loaded, out of 4 FactionDef files.
8:32:40 PM (Reporting) Application.Initialize OK
8:32:40 PM (Reporting) TSplash.Create OK
8:32:40 PM (Reporting) TSplash.Show OK
8:32:41 PM (Reporting) TSplash.Repaint OK
8:33:15 PM (Reporting) Max Texture size: 2048 x 2048
8:33:15 PM (Reporting) TMediaLibrarian.Create Finished loading images in 10.475 seconds Memory usage: 201168 kb
8:33:15 PM (Reporting) TParticlesDef.Create 4 particles definitions loaded, out of 4 particles files.
8:33:15 PM (Reporting) TDoodadDefs.Create 4 doodads definitions loaded, out of 4 files.
8:33:15 PM (Reporting) TListRegionDefs.Create 875 Regions definitions loaded.
8:33:15 PM (Reporting) TListButtons.Create 48 buttons definitions loaded, from 27 frontend files.
8:33:15 PM (Reporting) TFrontEnd.Create 0 frontend definitions loaded, from 27 frontend files.
8:33:15 PM (Reporting) TWeather.Create 7 Weathers patterns loaded, out of 7 files.
8:33:15 PM (Reporting) TListUnitDefs.Create 297 UnitDef loaded, out of 297 UnitDef files.
8:33:15 PM (Reporting) TMain, CreateForm OK
8:33:15 PM (Reporting) Application.Run Starting app...
8:33:15 PM [Error ] TGameSim.PreExport Exception caught, ExportStep: 30 Indice de liste hors limites (8)
8:33:15 PM [Error ] TGameSim.PreExport Exception caught, ExportStep: 30 Indice de liste hors limites (8)
8:33:15 PM [Error ] TGameSim.PreExport Exception caught, ExportStep: 30 Indice de liste hors limites (8)
8:33:15 PM [Error ] TGameSim.PreExport Exception caught, ExportStep: 30 Indice de liste hors limites (8)

[Spanky Jones]

I forgot the attachment. Here it is.

[Pocus]

Can you check if you have 25 files in the following directory:

Birth of America\BoA\Sounds

[Spanky Jones]

I have 25 files. 22 mp3s, 2 wave files and an ini file.

I didn't think of this before but I was disabling the sound on the options menu page. Could that be the problem? I can always leave it enabled if it is.

[Pocus]

If you crashed each time with sounds on, I would say that you have a DirectMusic problem as another player (Peter M.). But as this is somehow random the problem is more difficult to pinpoint. Try to reenable the sound (not necessarly the music) and tell me if you suffer from this crash. Report to me anyway (you can use support@ageod.com), as I would like to clean the issue for others too.

[Spanky Jones]

I have verified that it crashes with the sound on with my laptop. If I make the change in the ini file to 1, the game opens without problem. If I change it to 0, I receive the error at start-up. I'm fine with leaving the sound on. Thanks for the help and great job with the game.

[Pocus]

ok thanks for the report, I will check why there is this issue with sound off.

[Spanky Jones]

Just tried with my Desktop computer (the previous computer was a laptop) and it is coming up with the same error with the sound off. Just thought I'd see what would happen since I was there on the computer at the time. Not a big problem for me at all.

[Pocus]

I had the crash with music on and sounds off. Fixed for 1.03.