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madshj
Famous Hero
Minotaur Lord
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posted December 20, 2008 06:36 PM |
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any way to prevent wog from crashing?
Hi.
Is there any way to get crappy heroes 3 wog to not crashing?! its FREAKING annoying!!!
each day i play wog, it crashes.
My pc gets slow and it takes long before it can actually shut down the crashed heroes 3 wog.
Is there any solutions to getting it fixed?
I'm desperate <.<
Best regards.
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Asheron
Famous Hero
Ancient
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posted December 20, 2008 08:27 PM |
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Do you have the latest version and script updates? Maybe you're using some mod that is bugy? Or it's just your computer?
When does it exactly crash? Give some more details...
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friendofgunnar
Honorable
Legendary Hero
able to speed up time
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posted December 21, 2008 01:51 AM |
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Try turning off the "trees blowing in the wind" option. It's like pg 5 or 6 on the options pages. Mostly though wog has gotten too bloated for its own good 
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Vlaad
Admirable
Legendary Hero
ghost of the past
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posted December 21, 2008 02:50 AM |
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LOL FoG 
1) Uninstall WoG
2) Set language to English (not just the Taskbar but also Control Panel > Regional and Language Settings)
3) Install SoD and WoG
4) update to 3.58f
5) don't wogify WoG maps
6) don't install additional fan-made mods
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angelito
Honorable
Undefeatable Hero
proud father of a princess
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posted December 21, 2008 08:35 AM |
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I did all of that...but still it crashes around 5 times each game (random game). Never during battles, but mostly when entering a town, a map object or when messages appear. Strange enough, I wasn't able to make a hardcopy of these errors as of yet (yes, I know about the prtscrn function.. ). The error is a big field around 40% of the screen size, same color as in game messages, starts with "error details" ans then has some "locations" lited, mostly 4 digit numbers. Game freezes, only way is goind back on desktop, task manager, end process.
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metalpiss
Adventuring Hero
fail
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posted December 21, 2008 09:15 AM |
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WoG never crashed for me in 6 years of playing it except when I fiddled around with modifying the LODs. Sometimes it crashed when I was trying to replace a DEF file, but I don't know why. Though I always have a backup copy of the LODs so I just copy them over and it's all fine again.
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madshj
Famous Hero
Minotaur Lord
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posted December 21, 2008 10:12 AM |
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well when it crashes by me, its mostly when i end my turn, or enter a town.
Well i want to wogify maps, since there is no wog with no wogified maps
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Asheron
Famous Hero
Ancient
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posted December 21, 2008 10:59 AM |
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I got errors of that nature but only in 3.57... IMO you should avoid all those heavy scripted dwellings (like adventurers cave for example) because they caused my game to crash many times...But to crash when you enter town? Are you using some custom WoG map that ISN'T meant to be WoGified?
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madshj
Famous Hero
Minotaur Lord
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posted December 21, 2008 11:08 AM |
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just using normal maps and random maps and wogify them.
Well only happens sometimes, that it crashes while i enter a town.
Mostly kinda 90% of the time, is when i exit my turn
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Asheron
Famous Hero
Ancient
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posted December 21, 2008 12:08 PM |
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Then I think there are only this solutions:
-Download new WoG just like Vlaad said
-Check if your computer has any viruses
I know I'm not helpful but I really have no idea what could be wrong if you use just standard WoG 3.58 
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Salamandre
Admirable
Omnipresent Hero
Wog refugee
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posted December 21, 2008 12:11 PM |
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It seems players with heroes complete edition get crashes often. I almost never have crashes, and my install is :
HoMM3 (original)
SoD
And then WoG.
I suggest players who still play HoMM3 on-line to have a different folder for WoG, as when I play HoMM3 , the wog.exe stops responding.
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Era II mods and utilities
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Asheron
Famous Hero
Ancient
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posted December 21, 2008 12:16 PM |
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Quote:
It seems players with heroes complete edition get crashes often.
I use also complete edition and I have not encountered such errors?
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madshj
Famous Hero
Minotaur Lord
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posted December 21, 2008 12:22 PM |
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i'm using wog 3.58
I have heroes 3 complete, so that may be the reason <.<
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Salamandre
Admirable
Omnipresent Hero
Wog refugee
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posted December 21, 2008 12:25 PM |
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It may be something with hardware and system. I sent my WoG folder to a german friend who had crashes every turn and he had them again when playing with my folder. While I don't.
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Era II mods and utilities
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Hell_Wizard
Famous Hero
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posted December 21, 2008 01:55 PM |
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It most often crashes if the group DEFs are modifyed or if the error messages are disabled.
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Koni
Hired Hero
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posted December 21, 2008 05:28 PM |
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Edited by Koni at 17:30, 21 Dec 2008.
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I did all of that...but still it crashes around 5 times each game (random game). Never during battles, but mostly when entering a town, a map object or when messages appear. Strange enough, I wasn't able to make a hardcopy of these errors as of yet (yes, I know about the prtscrn function..). The error is a big field around 40% of the screen size, same color as in game messages, starts with "error details" ans then has some "locations" lited, mostly 4 digit numbers. Game freezes, only way is goind back on desktop, task manager, end process.
That's exactly what happens to me, but only when playing Salamandre's unique map "Alexander The Great". But there is no fault in the ERM scripts, the map runs on an older PC without crash. The error messages mostly start with "Exception (trace details)" and then the numbers of Locations and "Access Violation" - "Attempt to write the inaccessible data at (digit numbers)".
I have send you a mail, Angelito.
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Hell_Wizard
Famous Hero
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posted December 21, 2008 06:30 PM |
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It is not that easy. The ERM is hard - coded into the game and even the slightest mistake may cause the game to crash. So be carefull and DON'T mod your heroes if you don't know how to do it.
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Salamandre
Admirable
Omnipresent Hero
Wog refugee
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posted December 21, 2008 06:45 PM |
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It is not about coding right, but about weird conflicts between hardware and WoG. A wrong code usually pops an error message day 1, while these players have crashes almost every turn. Alexander map has thousand of objects, quests and may require more memory than other maps. But certainly it has not wrong codes, as my game into it went without a single crash from start to the end, and my testers also.
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Hell_Wizard
Famous Hero
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posted December 21, 2008 07:11 PM |
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Wait a bit, the hardware has nothing to do with ERM. It just happens - either we want it or not. Sometimes, the game may crash and when you load it again, the game won't crash. The coding is not that easy, and Slava didn't prevent all bugs from WoG. You can open the executable file with a decoder to see what I am talking about.
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Koni
Hired Hero
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posted January 03, 2009 08:04 PM |
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For all who had the same problems with WoG freezing: Finally a friend could recognize the reason, and so my problems are solved: I just had to change the compatibility modus in the properties of the wog.exe to Windows 98. Running with XP caused problems, but don't ask me why. 
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