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Posted February 23, 2020
Ok folks, here's a weird one. It's an exact duplicate of the problem I initially had with WinXP SP 3. When I first installed the GOG version, my replays worked fine. I played a 45 turn scenario -- no problems. Second scenario, I play 2 turns, then this problem pops up:

If I press any button in the replay controls, the replay skips to second 60 but displays --19332 as the time. Clearly a integer overflow but why? If I don't press any button, the replay frame count still skips to -19322 but i can hear the replay playing normally -- but the video is frozen at second 60.

The fix for WinXP was to uninstall Windows Messenger. I tried doing that for Win 10 but it's no longer installed by default.

I tried updating to the latest version on GOG and that didn't work. I tried the ddraw.dll fix for other Win10 problems and that just crashes CMBO on my system (cheap HP laptop with AMD Radeon R4 card)

Any ideas? Here's the link to my post on the CMBO forum from the last time I had the problem!

community.battlefront.com/topic/122994-playback-controls-issue-with-xp/
Post edited February 23, 2020 by nicholascaldwell
Posted November 03, 2020
The ddraw file is a disaster for Nvidia and Radeon cards - don't know what moron added them to the game because they aren't on the original CDs. They're based on a github solution for fog but that was just for intel integrated graphics (and radeon doesn't need it anyway). For Nvidia and Radeon it kills frame-rates to around 20.

As for Windows Messenger - yes there is one by default in Windows 10, but it's just called "Messaging". Maybe I never have a problem because I always disable it anyway during initial PC setup, but I currently have CMBO on my Win10 netbook and no problems with it (but I installed from my old "Combat Mission Anthology" CD version, not the GOG version).
Posted February 04, 2021
Every game in the series is affected by the replay skips, but for some reasons, rebooting the system solves this issue.
Post edited February 04, 2021 by hitoro
Posted May 11, 2021
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nicholascaldwell: Ok folks, here's a weird one. It's an exact duplicate of the problem I initially had with WinXP SP 3. When I first installed the GOG version, my replays worked fine. I played a 45 turn scenario -- no problems. Second scenario, I play 2 turns, then this problem pops up:

If I press any button in the replay controls, the replay skips to second 60 but displays --19332 as the time. Clearly a integer overflow but why? If I don't press any button, the replay frame count still skips to -19322 but i can hear the replay playing normally -- but the video is frozen at second 60.

The fix for WinXP was to uninstall Windows Messenger. I tried doing that for Win 10 but it's no longer installed by default.

I tried updating to the latest version on GOG and that didn't work. I tried the ddraw.dll fix for other Win10 problems and that just crashes CMBO on my system (cheap HP laptop with AMD Radeon R4 card)

Any ideas? Here's the link to my post on the CMBO forum from the last time I had the problem!

community.battlefront.com/topic/122994-playback-controls-issue-with-xp/
I'm seeing this with Barbarossa to Berlin. I bought the game last week and played a few scenarios just fine, now any game I play, if I click to jump ahead or back I get a big negative number displayed and animations get weird and it doesn't play back properly. I tried reinstalling it from scratch but that didn't help. Rebooting hasn't helped. Anyone else seeing this? Or have other possible solutions?
Post edited May 11, 2021 by squaregear
Posted May 13, 2021
Ok, I clicked Start, searched for "Add or Remove Programs", found "Messenger", uninstalled it, and rebooted my computer. So far that seems to have fixed it. I fired up a scenario and ran a turn and it was able to replay with forward and back working. Then I started a quick battle and played 20 turns of it and everything was working fine.

Still no idea how Messenger being installed could have anything to do with an integer overflow while clicking the playback buttons, but that seems to do it.
Posted July 07, 2021
I played all three of the Combat Mission games for several days with no problems. Then one day I had the exact problem nicholascaldwell described. After reading the posts in this thread, I took squaregear's advice and uninstalled "Messaging" on my Windows 10 64-bit PC, rebooted the system, and everything works fine.

Thanks so much for the thread and fix! I love these games and I'm thrilled GOG has reworked them for Windows 10 machines.
Post edited July 07, 2021 by bkinkel
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