[Crash] Game crashes during cinematics. Especially in Campaigns.

[GreeN!X]

Guys, I have been experiencing a problem for a few years already and I just thought that it was only doing it in the bonus campaign but now that I've been playing a few custom campaigns from hive, I have noticed it does it to them too.

My game crashes and shows an error message saying that the "Comradeship.mp3" file is corrupted. I have only witnessed this happen to the Bonus Campaign of TFT, Lord of the Clans, and The Adventures of Rowan the Wise. The game crashes on the same part of the cinematics every time. Lord of the Clans doesn't use audio for its cinematics so I was wondering why this error keeps on happening?

 

[Doomlord]

Comradeship is a music file. I guess ordering warcraft to play that file causes crash since it was corrupted?

You should either replace the file in your MPQ with a normal one or reinstall warcraft.

 

[GreeN!X]

What confuses me is the fact that Lord of the clan doesn't play any music file in the cinematics And I believe Rowan the wise has its own imported music files being used. Is it possible that Warcraft would be ordered to play that mp3 without trigger orders or sumthing?

 

[Doomlord]

Maybe it is the ambient music. Why don't you make a test map to confirm your hypothesis? Weird problems are often debugged this way.

 

[Binsu]

I dont know if what I will say right now is true but its either your Comradeship.mp3 is corrupted (as what stated by Doomlord) or the creator's mp3 itself is corrupted when he used it on the campaign.

I suggest try messing with the setttings of the Comradeship music itself in the Campaign itself or as suggested by Doomlord, find a new file that will replace the mp3 file which is nearly impossble execept if someone will be so kind to provide you.

Also a must looks thread here. Same problem with yours and provides a simple solution: Corrupted Internal Sound

 

[GreeN!X]

Yep, the file is corrupted and I know how to replace the file in the mpq. The thing is that I don't have the clean file to replace the corrupted one but I guess it can be found somewhere in the net.

I was just asking why this happened to campaigns that doesn't seem to use the corrupted music file. Like the two custom campaigns I have mentioned. One doesn't use sound at all and the other one uses its own music file.

 

[Daffa]

possibly another file somewhere in the depths of MPQ is corrupted as well.

 

[Binsu]

@ Hera

Maybe it is also possible that the mp3 music in the Campaign itself is corrupted so it gives that error.

 

[Daffa]

@HM
If the music itself error, how come Lords of the Clans crashed? It doesn't have any music beside normal music.

 

[GreeN!X]

That's my main concern in the first place. x3

It even happens to Heroes Lore's cinematics and every time WC3 fatals, It's always the same music file. I don't use that file in HL : Zero and I don't think the campaigns I mentioned use it either.

 

[Binsu]

Lol, Im now thinking that this specific file corrupted and infected your Wc3 because if we will look into it, even in other games and such that doesnt have this file experience this wild error.

 

[Daffa]

Consider replacing MPQ now, both War3 and War3x MPQ's