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Posted November 03, 2010
Just bought Cannon Fodder after realising it was available on GoG and I was using an old pirate copy.

So when I run the game the intro video plays, the the Poppy and title music appear and I click the mouse button and it crashes to desktop.

I'm running Win 7 64bit. Have tried playing around with the outputs and scalings but no difference. Also tried latest version of DOSBox

And my old pirate copy downloaded from some abondonware site a few years back works just fine under DOSBox, go figure...
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Finally managed to fix this.

It was a sound blaster initialization error that was causing the game to crash.

Had to set the cpucycles in the dosbox conf file to a low number, I used 7000 which seems to work fine.

Apparently some kind of speed bug in the game when initiating the sound.
Post edited November 05, 2010 by FooAtari
Posted December 19, 2010
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FooAtari: Just bought Cannon Fodder after realising it was available on GoG and I was using an old pirate copy.

So when I run the game the intro video plays, the the Poppy and title music appear and I click the mouse button and it crashes to desktop.

I'm running Win 7 64bit. Have tried playing around with the outputs and scalings but no difference. Also tried latest version of DOSBox

And my old pirate copy downloaded from some abondonware site a few years back works just fine under DOSBox, go figure...
Edit


Finally managed to fix this.

It was a sound blaster initialization error that was causing the game to crash.

Had to set the cpucycles in the dosbox conf file to a low number, I used 7000 which seems to work fine.

Apparently some kind of speed bug in the game when initiating the sound.
I'm having the same problem. Where do I find the conf file? Thanks!
Posted January 14, 2011
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enterprise2004: I'm having the same problem. Where do I find the conf file? Thanks!
Sorry for the extremely late reply :) Did you fix it. I'm not on my games PC right now, but the .conf file should be in the game folder. If needed I can get the full name of the file and the location later.
Posted January 17, 2011
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enterprise2004: I'm having the same problem. Where do I find the conf file? Thanks!
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FooAtari: Sorry for the extremely late reply :) Did you fix it. I'm not on my games PC right now, but the .conf file should be in the game folder. If needed I can get the full name of the file and the location later.
I was able to fix the problem, thanks!
Posted May 13, 2014
I used my necromancy here a little.

First --> Thanks a lot.

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FooAtari: ...Had to set the cpucycles in the dosbox conf file to a low number, I used 7000 which seems to work fine... ...but the .conf file should be in the game folder...
--> dosboxCannonFodder.conf --> basic text editor + what told there in quotes. Works.

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core=auto
cputype=auto
cycles=7000
cycleup=1000
cycledown=1000
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Post edited May 13, 2014 by FBG
Posted October 30, 2016
i've just tried those settings but it's still crashing after the intro :(

ignore me, i was editing an old cnf from a previous dosbox install :)

those settings work a treat.

thank you
Post edited October 30, 2016 by super_hoops1967
Posted October 30, 2017
Thanks, was having the same problem and this solved it on a windows 8.1 64bits machine.
Posted February 14, 2018
I was having the same problem. Although I also had to adjust CPU cycles, it wasn't the only issue keeping me from playing.

It turns out that you need to set the Interrupt to IRQ 7 for DOSBox, which is set to IRQ 5 by default. To change it, load up INSTALL.EXE, select Configure, select Sound, select Soundblaster Pro, and tick IRQ 7 under Interrupt (by using the arrow keys to scroll and spacebar to select it). If it works, when you press "T" to Test it should make a quick beep.

For me, it helped fix both Cannon Fodder 1 & 2's launch issues.
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Posted June 12, 2018
for me it helped pressing the right mouse button in the intro. pressing the left button quits the game to gog galaxy.
Or play the game with the desktop installer shortcut works even fine, so I think that the galaxy client actvates the error.
Posted October 04, 2019
Running Win 10 64bit, had same crashing issue as above. Changing .conf to 7000 cycles worked a treat. Thanks!
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