Yeah, thats what I give credit to GOG and WG they usually listen to people.

I have a pretty serious problem too. When I load the hotseat game I was playing before, EVERY SINGLE UNIT turns invisible and can't be selected or moved. Even the cities are invisible and can't be selected as well.

If I hover my cursor over where the units should be, they'll show in that little window in the lower right-hand corner, but they're still unusable.

If I click "end phase" to end the turn, the game does nothing. It won't progress to the next turn and just sits there.

TLDR: I can't load my game because if I do, none of the units are visible or selectable, and I can't end the current phase (not that doing so would do much good since I can't see or do anything with any of the units anyway).

So I tried to reproduce this issue (I did add it to the main post above and I will make support aware of this topic when I hear from them) but I need more info, like how long after play do you try to reload the game? what is your system configuration? etc. because I could not reproduce it at all, I tried playing for a short time, saving and then exiting and reloading the save: worked. played for about two hours, saved stayed in game for another hour idling, everything worked on reload in that case too.



also is your title "giver-of-will" a reference to starseige?

Yes the WoT community commonly uses WG or WG.NET when they mention wargaming.

Okay ! Good thing that they listen to people too :)

Soooo... I spent some hours trying different things on my game, and I better understood some things and found some solutions (thanks to luck XD) that seems to work (it doesn't solve all, only the two of the issues that I have and that I'll describe now :) ).

1) When you want to disclose your first country and push the "disclose" button in single player mode -> World War : you have the left menu which have time to "begin" to appear (sometimes without units inside) and it always crash. Same thing in Hot-seat mode.

This issue seems to disappear when you install the latest available patch (the v.2.0.164 stated on my previous messages, here or included into the package prepared by Lord_Kane on first post of this thread).

2) (First) Training Mission -> Movement and Combat -- The tutorial tells you to select your Heavy Bot. You select it (sometimes it crash here), and then, tutorial tells you where you must send it : when you want to move it and click where it must go (or even somewhere else for what I saw), it always crash.

This issue seems to be solved with remplacing some files in the folder "data\script" by some files from a fonctionning version of the game (retail). Here is the list of files who seems concerned :

antiair_alien_scripts.lua
helicopter_alien_scripts.lua
logic_utility_functions.lua
ltransport_alien_scripts.lua
ltransport_scripts.lua
mortar_scripts.lua
platform_scripts.lua
stransport_alien_scripts.lua
stransport_scripts.lua

If someone need it, I'll do a small package (because it seems that I'm the only one having this crashes).

On aside note, the training missions seems particularly full of troubles. I tested the Training mission 2, and information text goes sometimes too fast, like if you were constantly clicking to make it disappear (if it's what you were experiencing Lord_Kane). This seems to be solved with the Lord_Kane's fix in first post (thank you for your work).

So game is playable for me now (yay !) but I'll wait for GOG to provide a clean and proper version, seeing all bugs/troubles we encounter.

(I'll send them this complement, may be it'll help themto solve all of this).

I tried to reproduce your issue with a quick test (launched game, disclosed some countries, bought some units, moved them, attacked some untis... ) but everything was ok for me. Have you tried a new hotseat game ? But may be is this linked to Gamersgate version if it's the one you use, I don't know how different the versions may be (or even if they are different).

:( My game crashes constantly in the very first disclose phase of any match. It's a 100% rate of crash to desktop for me and I've yet to be able to play this game. No wonder it's on sale. Seems totally broken and unplayable to me.

Hi ! Have you tried to instal the update I talked about in my previous message ? Because for me it solved this issue (issue number 1 on the message :) ) !

I am prepping a update right now to my fix pack which includes the scripts from my CD install and a couple experimental fixes.

EDIT: I put it up on the first post.

Oh, great ! You're very kind !
When you'll have finished, I'll try it and tell you the result.

check first post

Ok, as far as I saw (I mean, I checked the biggest bugs/crashs), it's seems to be working : I reinstalled the game, and followed your instructions. Good mix of our solutions ! You made a lot of work, thanks for it, it will help people to play, while waiting for the cleaner GOG version ! :)
*highfive*

WE SOLVE ONE ISSUE AND ANOTHER POPS UP. Another user discoverd that the GOG version has NO english VO for the campaigns

Aside from occasional Crash to Desktop on the Orbital Station Thunder map, my gamersgate install from years ago has had zero issues, full campaign voice acting, etc.

Why on Earth wouldn't the gog version at the very least be identical?