The account on the computer I'm using to play CC is the admin account... I wish it were that easy. But thanks anyways -- I guess as long as they're lookin' into the problem it's good enough for me - I'll try to wait patiently.



Now there's an idea...

Ha ha that's a good one! Don't make the art too funny or else there will be no incentive to ever fix the problem! (for the slow: I am kidding)

I ♥♥♥♥ love you le-mec.

As far as debugging goes, you could always do this:

Go into the Maginot script (Missions.rte/Scenes/Scripts/Maginot.lua)
Put this line of code in the the Update function at the beginning and end:



Then run that mission.

This should overwrite the last one each time, and give you an up to date view of the console, and any errors it gives out before it dies. If no file is created at all, that means it's either crashing in the Start function, or it's a non-Lua related error. If it does give you a file, that should tell you what the error is.

Lord Tim: Wow, thanks for your help! Ah, I have SOME programming experience so I can try and follow any instructions you give me.

Okay, I went into Maginot.lua and inserted at line 89:



No debugging.txt files were generated within the Cortex Command installation directory (or subfolders, for that matter) -- I also checked my "C:\Documents and Settings\<username>" directory. I hope I did it right. By the way, the first map in the campaign is the Tutorial Bunker, so just in case, I also tried inserting at Line 104 of Testscript.lua:



I ran the Campaign and the Skirmish, and searched for the debugging files both times, but it seems nothing was generated.

Lemme know if you get any other ideas!

It's just Tim, not Time.

Also this really sucks, I know at this point I'm not even helping, but I want to make sure you don't disappear for six months again taking your art with you.

Well. That's all I can do. Unfortunately, that means there's something wrong with the hardcoded portion. You did say that the game crashes when the pie menu is opened... Maybe you're missing the pie menu icons? (Cortex Command\Base.rte\GUIs\PieIcons)

In the video you can see the pie menu appear, but then it crashes, so it isn't missing icons.

I suggest making a new user account and seeing if it works in that.

Is that reflection on the desktop thing a Vista feature? Might want to try turning all the UI graphics off and trying again. You never know...

Oh SHI-

le_mec_FAIL++;

Sorry.



Let's see... I have 96 BMP images in that directory, each one is 1,224 bytes large.



Oh, hey... I have another machine I should try this on...

... All right, it works just fine ( a bit choppy ) on my 1 Ghz Tablet PC. Then the problem is definitely something on MY machine or MY set-up.

Gonna try that new user account thingy.



Oh, that Hall Of Mirrors effect is being caused by my video capture program (VirtualDub) - I've only opened it for the purposes of recording the crash. Otherwise, I leave it off.

Okay, tried a new user account... Still crashes.

Tried SAFE MODE -- oh, now this was different. Cortex command shows a black screen and stays that way forever. It can't even be closed.

Ok, we've established that it's not something you've done then, if default settings still crash it.

Must be some obscure hardware error.

I don't imagine a fix will be forthcoming, unless other cases emerge.

Oh well...

Oh my God le-mec please don't leave.

Ha ha! For a while I thought those grenades were mangos