twisted canyon map crashes

[agamenon]

Hi - after 20-30 minutes of playing the twisted canyon map, I can't place new buildings. You get the "thummmmp" but the building isn't built. A few minutes later the screen locks completely and the mouse disappears. I've not had problems with any other downloaded map. I'm using XPHome on a MESH AMD 2600 with 512M RAM, ASUS m'board, ATI 9800 PRO graphics card.

Any suggestions please?

[Atomic Mitten]

Un-install the map, then re-install it, making sure your anti.virus software is disabled.

Before installation.

You could also defrag your drive before you install the map. ;)

[agamenon]

Thanks, but how do I uninstall the map please?

[gryphon]

Sorry, although I can't place the map with a game. . is it Dune Emperor ?

Could it be you are at the maximun building amount of units after 20 minutes .. . making it not possible to build anything more ?

Some games have that feature.

And depending on the map, if it was an extra map you have installed later, just deleting it could sometimes do the trick.

[agamenon]

Yes, it is an emperor map off the download page.

I've uninstalled it, there is a button in mappacker.

I've switched off my antivirus program, reinstalled it, played, and the same thing happens.....

It's a really nice map. Does anybody have any other suggestions?

[Atomic Mitten]

You say you un-installed it ? make sure it's not still in the temp cache of map packer.

Also delete the file in win Zip.

Then re-download it and try again.

I will check if it works for me and get back to you. ;)

[Atomic Mitten]

Well firstly the Map is called Twisted Canyons.

Secondly it took me 8 minutes to kill the AI.

Thirdly it Doesn't freeze on me at all.

I think it must be your installation of the map.

Try doing it again. ;)

[rigel6669]

Any suggestions please?

Does this happen when playing vs the computer or playing via wol/lan play?

If you are playing vs ai: it depends if you used easy, normal or difficult army. As gryphon has mentioned before, there is a building limit.

Try to play to same map against several easy armies and check if you can still build after 20 min of play.

[agamenon]

Thanks everybody for your suggestions. I've re-installed, twice, reduced the graphics resolution, etc. For 6 AI players, no problems. It only has happened so far with me against 7 AI players. So it must be this building limit? Or it may be when the first AI player is eradicayed/gives up. Sometimes the CPU load goes to 100%.

I guess this is a "feature" of the map. It hasn't happened on any other 8 player map I have.

I like the map though. It's pretty exiciting if 3 AI players suddenly attack you together...

[syczek]

i want to test this map :twisted canyon" . where is. if map dont crash me, map is goodly maked. i have defragmented disc, and re-installed system. , and if is possible, i try find a errors in maps....

[agamenon]

It's in the FED2k, emperor, download, fan made maps section.