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Arctic Baron crashes

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First post, by X

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My Arctic Baron always crash when running. How can solve it?

Thank you!

Reply 1 of 13, by Qbix

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by following the posting guidelines and the 60 seconds guide to dosbox of minimax

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Reply 2 of 13, by X

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Sorry, my platform is window xp with Celeron 1.3 Ghz, 504MB ram. And my Dosbox is 0.73.

Reply 3 of 13, by Qbix

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I removed the file. (as you aren't allowed to share games here)
Ah transartica.
Well the game works fine with default settings for me.
Just run start.exe

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Reply 4 of 13, by X

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But I only have the password of Arctic Baron version here, the password of Tranarctica and Arctic Baron are different. If I play the Transarc, it will mess up when it need your password during the game. Also it will crash in the Window Vista too.

Reply 5 of 13, by Qbix

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I didn't get that far to a moment where the password would be needed

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Reply 6 of 13, by X

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During the game, it will ask you some words inside the manual. Transarctic and Arctic Baron have different manual. So if I play the the Transarctica instead of Arctic Baron, I will not be able to complete the game.

Reply 7 of 13, by Qbix

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maybe you have a savegame just before that moment so I can test the crash ?

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Reply 8 of 13, by X

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Here is

Reply 9 of 13, by Qbix

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This is after it crashed or so ?
As the train seems to stay at once place on the map despite me having 70 mph

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Reply 10 of 13, by robertmo

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qbix, save works for me in both games, maybe try clicking on the clock to speed up time.

Nevertheless save is not needed:

start the game, go to engine, click both guys twice so they move faster, release the break, set speed max, click on map, click back on engine and you have the freeze. (you need low cycles about 4000 or lower to get the freeze) To unfreeze the game just set cycles higher (about more than 4500). click on map, on engine freeze is back. 100% reproducable in both game every time. If only one guy is shoveling slowly you need less cycles to get the freeze (eg 2000), but you need 4500 to unfreeze too. 😀

So if you set the game to 5000 it shouldn't freeze and even if it does you can always unfreeze it 😉

btw - Doesn't happen if you configure the game not to use sound blaster

doesn't happen in 0.66beta2 and older, happens in 0.70 and newer

Reply 11 of 13, by X

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The train can move again, thank you for help!

But here come another problem, the panel has some "monster" come out and the screen messed up.

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The train can move again, thank you for help!

But here come another problem, the panel has some "monster" come out and the screen messed up.

Reply 13 of 13, by robertmo

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post a screenshot 😀