[Crash] Wc3 crashes in loadingscreen at 50%

[Cryze666]

when i and my friend want to play warcraft in LAN mode his wc3 crashes at 50% of the loading bar, but only at one map, other maps can be played and also all other friends can play this map without problems in single and multi player

he uses win xp as client and i'm using win 7 as host other win 7 clients have no problems is the problem win xp or did anyone of you have any experience with similiar problems?

 

[deathismyfriend]

there must be something wrong on the map. u might use GetLocalPlayer or another bad action at map init. This will cause a crash when trying to load those.

 

[Cryze666]

but it is only on his pc, all others can play it without any problems

• Map ini
  • Ereignisse
    • Zeit - Elapsed game time is 1.00 seconds
  • Bedingungen
  • Aktionen
    • Spiel - Display to (All players) the text: type -svm to play s...
    • Einheitengruppe - Pick every unit in (Units in (Playable map area)) and do (Actions)
      • Schleifen - Aktionen
        • Multiple FunctionsIf (All Conditions are True) then do (Then Actions) else do (Else Actions)
          • 'IF'-Bedingungen
            • (Unit-type of (Picked unit)) Gleich (==) Scrap
          • 'THEN'-Aktionen
            • Einheit - Change ownership of (Picked unit) to Neutral passiv and Farbe wechseln
          • 'ELSE'-Aktionen

this is the first trigger, i have no map ini trigger

 

[BloodDrunk]

maybe something related to player slot he was. What slot(color) he was? and check every trigger which uses player slot at map initialization and post here

 

[Cryze666]

the slot didn't matter we tried blue, teal and green with diffrent players, only when he picked one of the slots it didn't work

i have no map ini trigger the first trigger wich is conducted starts after 1 second

 

[Talavaj]

What are his graphic settings ? Tell him to try to set everything to max. (high, or however is it called)

 

[deathismyfriend]

u have a group leak in that trigger and i believe its caused by lower graphics like Talavaj said

 

[Cryze666]

but then it would crash after the game started, the problem is that the crash comes at exactly 50% of the loadingbar
the graphics are all at max. but i cant imagine how low grpahics could cause an crash

i know that i have some leaks in my maps cuz i never really understood what leaks and what not, also i never understood how to solve that leaks
but i made maps with much more triggers and never had such a problem i could upload the map if this would help?

 

[Daffa]

^it could

Also, graphic can cause performance issues, ex : play SotP in low graphic = crash/improper data

It's recommended he has max out graphic and screenshot resolution settings first.

 

[Cryze666]

graphic and resolution is all at max

 

[MasterTrainer]

Maybe it's the computer itself? I've tried to play SotP before (I think this is the map you're referring to)and it had a slow loading time probably because of the big file size.

 

[deathismyfriend]

if ur playing on battle.net or gerena mybe his internet speed is slow or buggy causing him to desync.

 

[Cryze666]

its on LAN and its a map of myself with a total size of 4.697kb the computer should not be the problem cuz when i use my laptop (50% of the power the pc has) the map works fine

 

[MasterTrainer]

How do you know the map works fine if it crashes at loading screen?

 

[deathismyfriend]

im guessing u mean 4.697mb but anyways are u trying to load an old game to play ? are u using game cache actions to store things ? how old is this map ? did it get updated ?

 

[MasterTrainer]

Maybe it works fine at loading screen, maybe you just got impatient because it takes a while to finish loading? Do you do anything while the game loads?

 

[PurgeandFire]

Recommend that your friend reinstall. Maybe something is being loaded that is corrupted in his MPQ. It would be the only reasonable thing I can think of considering it works for other people in multiplayer but not for him.

Does it work when he plays it individually? If it doesn't, then he probably should reinstall Warcraft 3.

 

[Cryze666]

i can play it alone in single player or with a lot of my friends on battle.net or with other computers via lan but all other clients use win 7 he's the only one with win xp and the only one who got this problem (all other maps work fine for him)

no i mean 4.697 kb or 4,697 mb (. is not ,) xD
no never used game cache things and its the start of whole new map the map it self is in a beta state and was created in january this year, we want to start playing it from scratch^^

edit: he also can't play the map in single player (all others can) but he can play each other map in single and multi player its just this one map and this one client xD - reinstall is a bit hard cuz he lost his original roc version (i lost mine too, i only have 3 tft and i dunno why xD)

edit2: the whole game closes without an error when the loading bar reaches the 50%, we all did nothing^^

 

[deathismyfriend]

no i mean 4.697 kb or 4,697 mb (. is not ,)

im from usa so 4.697mb is 4,697 kb lol

As for ur problem try disabling all triggers and try to play it with him if it works then its a trigger.

 

[Cryze666]

im from usa so 4.697mb is 4,697 kb lol

xD

ok i will try this, if anyone has another idea pls post it here^^

 

[PurgeandFire]

edit: he also can't play the map in single player (all others can) but he can play each other map in single and multi player its just this one map and this one client xD - reinstall is a bit hard cuz he lost his original roc version (i lost mine too, i only have 3 tft and i dunno why xD)

It is okay. I have 2 TFT's. I don't know why either.

Anyway, tell your friend to make a backup of his Warcraft III folder (copy + paste). Next, transfer your MPQ files to a USB so that you can give it to him (or on dropbox, or something else). You should have war3.mpq, war3x.mpq, and war3patch.mpq. Have him replace his current mpq's with the ones you have (don't touch the backup though), and then check if the map works. If it doesn't, or if something goes wrong, delete that folder and just move the backup back.

 

[deathismyfriend]

if its on lan just put the MPQ file into a shared folder then open it up on the other one copy and replace the old one.

 

[Daffa]

You sure he uses the same patch?

If so, then might MPQ problem as PurgeandFire stated

 

[WaterKnight]

There are some problems that only occur with certain configurations. For example, a friend of mine recently tried to create a special imported image that only froze the game when textures were set to low level. In any way, try to figure out what exactly happens at the moment your friend gets the hammer.

 

[Cryze666]

i will try out replacing the mpq files too, i will let you you know about the results

but what happens in wc3 when the loading bar hits the 50%? how could i figure this out?

 

[WaterKnight]

Initialization triggers happen then. You can move them to ingame or just deactivate them. Surround the problem by bisectively limiting the actions occuring (use Skip Remaining Actions).

 

[Cryze666]

it seems like the mpq thing worked, we only tried it in single player jet, we will try it later in mp, thanks^^

edit: worked in mp too *solved* thanks @ all^^