WCP Win2000 Errors

[comet965]

Hello,

During a mission my game will crash to the desktop with the following error:
Prophecy has generated errors and will be shut down. You must restart the game.
This happens over and over and i cannot play the game. My rig P4 2.8, 1gig DDR , Win2000 Prof. Ed. plenty of hard drive space. Any help would be appreciated.

 

[AD]

Hello,

During a mission my game will crash to the desktop with the following error:
Prophecy has generated errors and will be shut down. You must restart the game.
This happens over and over and i cannot play the game. My rig P4 2.8, 1gig DDR , Win2000 Prof. Ed. plenty of hard drive space. Any help would be appreciated.

Have you tried enabling the compatability modes on the WCP executable? Compatability mode in win2000 needs to be enabled with a command line entry. And you have to have SP4 installed.

1. Make sure you are running SP4 with the latest version of everything (drivers and directx).
2. If you have not yet, run this command in start > run: regsvr32 %systemroot%\apppatch\slayerui.dll
3. Create a shortcut to the file you want to run
4. Bring up the shortcut's properties (right-click menu) and enable Windows 95 compatibility mode (which will now be enabled from the above step)
5. Run the program *using the shortcut*

So you need an updated 2K, you have to turn on compatibility mode via command line entry, and then you can only enable compatibility mode via a shortcut link.

 

[Nomad Terror]

I wrote those directions! :>

 

[comet965]

Thanks guys,

I have enabled win2000 compatibility mode and have tried all four modes (by activating through the shortcut) but my game still crashes to the desktop with the listed error. Any other suggestions?

 

[AD]

Thanks guys,

I have enabled win2000 compatibility mode and have tried all four modes (by activating through the shortcut) but my game still crashes to the desktop with the listed error. Any other suggestions?

Can you be more specific about the crash? When exactly does it crash? Does it crash as soon as you click fly, or sometime into the first mission? Are you using any enhancement patches? What video mode/ resolution are you using?

 

[Unregistered]

I'm using this little batch file to start wcso:

type *.tre >nul
secretops

It does not completely fix those crashes but lets you at least play a few missions in a row. You should have not too less free ram though for this trick to work.

 

[ChrisReid]

Did you apply the Prophecy Windows 2000 patch? http://download.wcnews.com/files/wcp/prophecy_win2k.zip

 

[cff]

I'm using this little batch file to start wcso:
type *.tre >nul
secretops
It does not completely fix those crashes but lets you at least play a few missions in a row. You should have not too less free ram though for this trick to work.

I am stunned that this has any effect at all.

(For the less PC knowledgeable - the file reads all .tre files once before starting the game. It doesn't copy, modify or patch anthing. At best it will buffer some parts in a read cache.)

 

[Unregistered]

> At best it will buffer some parts in a read cache.)

And that is what seems to help the game. Looks like file access time is critical to trigger the bug.
There are two different kinds of errors: the "simple crash" like the OP reported and an error message with thread and semaphore and "!ok to remove" in it. Might be some racing condition. Both types of crash are reduced by this caching.
Disabling on-access virus scanners might help too. (I have the highres patch applied - before it might not have worked at all - don't remember).