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  1. Agent Khuul

    Command & Conquer freezes near end of msn 6

    Re: Got an error message... Nyerguds: I got an error message while playing N64-GDI Msn 2 for you to peruse . This happened when clicking on the "Save" button after typing text into the file name slot of the file to be "saved". This has happened about three times before but it never occurred to me to write them down and report them to you. This type error is not repetitive but random, as 99% of the time I save without any difficulty. When I go back to the game and do about the same things in the same places and near the same times it will save as if nothing ever happened at all. I did send the report to Microsoft for what its worth. Error message: The instruction at 0045af8a referenced memory at 0000008 The memory could not be read from. Click on OK to terminate the application (Note: which I did) ********************************************************* MS Error Signature AppName: c&c95.exe * * AppVer: 1.6.2.0 * * ModName: c&c95/exe ModVer: 1.6.2.0 * * Offset: 0005af8a ********************************************************* It also referenced the xxxxappcompat.txt file as being sent to MS but I forgot to write down the exact Path and File Name. I did notice that the Instruction Address and the Offset Address, while close, where not an exact match. Well, I guess you can "have-at-it" now so good luck. I will post more errors if they occur. Regards, Agent Khuul
  2. Agent Khuul

    Command & Conquer freezes near end of msn 6

    Nyerguds: Thanks for your reply and interest in my issue with the errors I have been get'n while playing Command & Conquer and the Covert Missions over the last two weeks. I have noted what to write down now when I get an error to give you the correct info to work with to maybe resolve the issue, if any. I didn't know you could actually view and work with the actual game code. That's real heavy duty and way over my head. But I imagine from the results of your work that you can handle it quite good. These errors appear to be random and non-reoccurring. I am going to start some more New Missions tonight. Probably N64-GDI Msn 2. Have a good day. Regards, Agent Khuul
  3. Agent Khuul

    Command & Conquer freezes near end of msn 6

    Nyerguds: I finally got to that mission, GDI N64 Special Ops-1, which you said you did in under 5 minutes. Early in the game I was baffled at how you did it because of the multiple attacks I was getting. I fended them off quite handily. I believe in the Norman Schwartzkopf's Golden Rule of War to Win. Overwhelming force. I did beat it but it took 3 1/2 hours. I took minimal casualties and really trounced 'em. I amassed many units which probably explains the length of time to beat 'em. Then I got to think'n about your post and how you did it quick. The following is a "spoiler" so stop reading if you want to figure it out yourself. Then I got to see the "victory lap" video again. I knew I had to post and tell you I figured our how to do it. Anyway it was cool to do and I enjoyed it immensely. My game worked 99.6% flawlessly. I got 4 different error messages at different times playing the GDI and Covert Missions. The error messages stated that it couldn't read the "xxxxappcompat.txt" file in the Temp folder just like the "Top-of-Screen" crash. I dutifully did an MS error report and went back playing the game I was doing at the time. The errors did not occur again even though I did about the same action in the same place where the error originally occurred at. That is quite baffling to me. Might you have any ideas? Anyway, I guess I bored you all with this missive so have a good day and know that all your work in keeping TFD running so damn good is ever so much appreciated. Regards, Agent Khuul P.S. I saved this before I Spell Checked. Won't lose it no more, I dare say.
  4. Agent Khuul

    Command & Conquer freezes near end of msn 6

    Nyerguds, I took a look at your reference to the "speed-run" for Block Kane's Escape mission. I am on dial-up yet and video's aren't practical to download unless there Alizee music video's. (YouTube it!) She is 'HOT" and can sing & dance cool, too! In my humble opinion. I did that mission by methodically figuring out ways to attrit the Nod guys while having no losses of my own. This takes forever with a lot of saves but it works. I like the missions where you get to build stuff and plan your campaigns to defeat the ne'er-do-wells. I grit my teeth and do the missions where they give you a few units and tell you "have at it" & "good luck" so I can get to the missions I enjoy doing. I did a later mission on Nod side where you got to destroy a village by just "do'n it" speed-run style and I had four units left, hang'n on by a thread, when I beat it. That's the only way I could figure out how to do that mission. As an aside about, "slow", my first son has a Masters in Accounting and my second son will attend the University this fall for his Doctorate degree in Chemical Engineering. I guess "slow" is not hereditary transferable. "chuckle-chuckle" I just have my way of get'n it done. Again, I really appreciate all you guys help. I am on the 8th mission for the Nod side now. Agent Khuul
  5. Agent Khuul

    Command & Conquer freezes near end of msn 6

    Nyerguds: I had 2 paragraph post all done and the spelling checked. I must of hit a wrong key, again, because I just lost the whole post. Anyway, I did find the video you spoke of in Restate box and Video button. The music and videos work A-OK in the Covert missions. Thanks again for all of your guys help. Agent Khuul gonna go play TFD some more-will keep you all posted as events warrant
  6. Agent Khuul

    Command & Conquer freezes near end of msn 6

    Nyerguds: I saw your tip on maybe doing the Block Kane's Escape mission but only if you're very fast. I am not. I was identified in first grade as being slow. You never ever want to be tagged with "that label" for all your life, that early in life. I think x-cons get more favorable treatment. I didn't even look at it. Anyway, I did complete C&C the original game yesterday. It took me forever to figure out how to move east and get on with it. Eventually I found the southeast Tiberum Ore field and then commenced to have at it with Kane. I then tried a Covert mission, the one where you have to nix the power grid to drive your MCV past the Obelisks to where the Tiberium Ore field is. The music works good but I don't recall getting much of a video introduction. It just stated what I had to do to complete the mission. Thanks again all of you for your continued interest and support in my "rookie" issues. I will keep you posted on Covert OPs and Nod's side in the C&C game of the TFD game pack. Agent Khuul, a happy and contented TFD game player;)
  7. Agent Khuul

    Command & Conquer freezes near end of msn 6

    ******************************************************************************** ****************** Nyerguds: I read your highly detailed explanation for the error message I described earlier. I must admit I am way over my head in this technical side of video games. I just wanted to let you know my game is working flawlessly. I wasn't on the last mission, as I had said earlier. It appears I have a couple more to go. Right now I have to block Kane's escape. From your post it appears that I have my Patching stuff completed. When I click on the game to start it and the main menu comes up I see the "V. 1.06b r2 by Nyerguds" in the lower right corner of the main menu list. This is so cool because I can converse with the fellow on the CNCNZ forum who wrote that and put it there . My game functioned just perfectly and I could really concentrate on getting a high score instead of worrying about the next crash. I do quite good on leadership but mediocre in efficency. I did change the resolution back in SetUp to 640x480 to get my previous save files back. My game looks super on my flat screen monitor and C&C95.EXE is magnitudes above my old CRT monitor in picture quality. I sill am a little mystified as to how to access the expansions in the games but you did tell me that Covert is in the New Missions list fo the original C&C game. I will try one of them tommoro to see if the music and vidoes all work. I hope I didn't goof-up in the installation of all those patches. I don't do a lot of "extracting" of zip files to file folders and I am kind of a newbee at it. I learned the basics by installing the 8 Official Plug-Ins for the Morrowind game which I play too! I got them all to work right with some trial and error manuevering. Thanks again for your help and it is an honor to be able to converse with you on this issue. Ther aren't a whole lot of people who can do what you can do in fixing really bugged-up PC video games. Regards, Agent Khull A confident TFD game player and proud of it. Will keep you posted on games behavior.
  8. Agent Khuul

    Command & Conquer freezes near end of msn 6

    Nyerguds: Thanks for the tip on the N64 missions. I went down to the Hernando County Library again and downloaded c95v106b_r2, tfd101, tfd_fullcleanup, and tfd_ra_main_patch. It took all of 15 minutes of their fancy computers. I had to figure out whom to extract them to, but after that it went OK, except for the TFD-101.EXE Patch. It had this error message in the DOS command line box: C:\Program Files\EAGames\Command & Conquer\covert\MOVIES.MIX Error:No Such File or directory. I did some prowl'n around in the game folders and could not find the Covert Folder, which I believe should be in the original Command & Conquer game folder. It appeared the TFD-101 Patch did stick though as I found references to it in the individual game folders. I was wondering how to access these many expansion games within TFD? When you click on one of the titles in the main menu you are sent to play the original game for that series. I thought that you might have to beat the original game first to go to the next expansion pack in the series but now I don't know. There must be some way to access the game expansions of the original if the EA people sell and advertise it with the expansion packs included. I am going to try my totally patched-up TFD game after I get this post done. Thanks again for your help with all my "rookie" issues. Regards from a confident TFD game player, Agent Khuul
  9. Agent Khuul

    Command & Conquer freezes near end of msn 6

    Nyerguds: Thanks for personally replying to my question. It is an honor to actually have a conversation with an actual game writer/coder such as your self. Thanks for the info on the Patch 106b r2. I also checked out the rest of them and I am going to add C&C TFD Patch 1.01, then TFD C&C95RA1 Full CleanUp(v1.0), then Nyerguds' TFD Red Alert main.mix clean up, and then install TFD Patch 106.b r2. Thanks again for the kind and generous assistance, as it is much appreciated. I did check out what you're doing on Patch 106c and I am really impressed with your ability to accomplish all that! We TFD player will be in awesome amazement when you get Patch 106c finished and published. You really do great work and get our TFD game packs to do it, too! This is somewhat off topic but I was wondering where is EA Tech Support and why ain't they doing this work for their game??? I think the quality of your work is better then EA's by a mile. I wrote them guys at EA that they should hang their heads in shame for publishing the TFD game with that many bugs in it. I play console games, too, and they don't have bugs or Patches, so why can't the PC game makers do the same? Regards from a TFD game player, Agent Khuul PS: I got to the last mission on C&C95-GDI side but got to tired to play anymore. Will finish after I do the next batch of Patches.
  10. Agent Khuul

    Command & Conquer freezes near end of msn 6

    Tore: I read on the download site that Patch 1.06b r2 is for the Command and Conquer Gold edition. They didn't have "rev1" listed. Will that work in the First Decade game pack? This is the web-site where I found Patch 1.06b r2: http://nyerguds.arsaneus-design.com/cnc95upd/cc95p106/ It apparently will work on the 1st Decade game pack. I did download Patch 1.03 and my game does work now, as I finished mission 6 with the Commando at the top of the screen and blew up the airstrip. The spoken words of the computer generated character was different and the resolution is awesome. Do you really think that Patch 1.06b r2 is worth the effort if I got it to work already? I wouldn't want to screw it up if it is working OK. I also figured out how I lost my in depth post I worked on so long for this forum. When I hit the backspace key I wasn't in the editor part of the forum. I had just closed my little ABC SpellCheck app, which I use because I can't spell or type. Anyway, when I hit the backspace key it was interpreted as to go back to the forums page and not to delete that pesky out of place apostrophe. Well, hopefully I will learn from my mistakes. I did get my game working and I wanted to thank you all for your kind assistance. Regards, Agent Khuul Nmenth: I tried that hitting the forward key but the editing box was all blank; I lost it all. I did get my game work'n with Patch 103. Do you all think is would be worth installing "Patch 1.06b r2" if I got it work'n OK now? Agent Khuul
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    Command & Conquer freezes near end of msn 6

    I worked on a post for quite some time and inadvertently hit the backspace key, I think, and lost my whole post. I even had Spell Check done! All I had to do was remove on out of place apostrophe and I lost it all. The step was to click on "Post" my missive. Anyway thanks for your help. Will let you all know if I get it to work. Agent Khuul, PS: your site posting app might need a little work.
  12. Hello Fellow C&C Players: My son got me C&C the 1st Decade at Good Will for $10 as a gift. We used to play the old Westwood games on an old Widows 98 based machine and they worked pretty much flawlessly. I thought it would be neat to play them all starting from the first game and watch how the games developed over the years. The problem is that the very first game in the series, Command & Conquer, freezes up when I move the character or a harvester moves automatically near the top of the screen toward the end of the mission. I get an Error Message and a Microsoft Error Report. ******************************************************************************** ******** The Error Message states: Command & Conquer Application Error C&C95.EXE The instruction at 00432421 referenced memory at 0963fd39. The memory could not be read from. Click OK to terminate application ******************************************************************************** ******** The 2nd dialog box I get is: Error Signature C&C95.EXE szAppName:C C95.EXE &szAppVer:0.0.0.0 (Note: just empty space between C's) szModName:hungapp ******************************************************************************** ******** The third dialog box is a Microsoft Error Report which states the file names of the errors occurrences in the Details section: C:DOCUME~1\Owner\Locals~1\Temp\WERS53le.dir00\C&C95.EXE.MDMP C:DOCUME~1\Owner\Locals~1\Temp\WERS53le.dir00\appcompat.txt ******************************************************************************** ******** I tried EA tech Support but I found them pretty useless for the most part and sending me in circles for answers and proper filing protocol. What I did do that didn't have any effect on crashing over and over again is the following: 1) I manually un-installed C&C the 1st Decade and followed EA's written instructions to the letter. 2) Before I reinstalled it I made sure everything was turned off that I could turn off. 3) I went to our County Library and downloaded a fresh copy of Patch 1.02. This took about 4 minutes compared to 4 hours on dial-up albeit I don't think my 1st patch copy was bad now. 4) I installed the entire game and the new copy of Patch 1.02 with everything turned off that I was allowed to. 5) I then restarted my computer. 6) I then turned ever thing off again and played the game up to the near the end of the sixth mission where you are to the right of the airstrip and near a SAM site. This is where it crashes at and is almost the same place as before in the 1st installation. 7) I did purge my Temp and %Temp% file folders according to EA's written instructions right off the bat. The file names would only change just slightly each time it crashed. Here are my PC specs which were asked for in a pinned post: CPU & speed: AMD Athlon XP 2000+, MMX, 3DNow, ~1.7GHz Operating System: Windows XP Home Edition (5.1, Build 2600) Service Pack 3 Graphics Card: NVIDIA GeForce 6200 Display Memory: 256.0 MB Memory: 2048MB RAM Page File: 358MB used, 1875MB available Motherboard: BIOSTAR System Model: AWRDACPI Direct X Version: DirectX 9.0c (4.09.0000.0904) DxDiag Version: 5.03.2600.5512 32bit Unicode BIOS: Phoenix - AwardBIOS v6.00PG Sound Card Description: SB Audigy 2 Audio [C000] Modem Card Name: SoftV90 Voice Speakerphone Modem Drive C:Drive: Free Space: 15.2 GB, Total Space: 38.2 GB, File System: NTFS Model: WDC WD400JB-00ETA0 Drive D: Free Space: 62.5 GB, Total Space: 76.3 GB, File System: NTFS Model: WDC WD800JB-00JJA0 Drive E: Model: HL-DT-ST DVD-RAM GH22NP20 Drive F: Model: ATAPI DVDROM 16X Drive G: Western Digital 40GB in NexStar 3 external HD case-USB 2.0 (Note: This drive is normally turned off when gaming.) If any one knows how to fix this it would very much appreciated. Regards, from a more then middle age game player Agent Khuul
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