Crashing when trying to launch the game

[Bansheedragon 1]

I recently had my computer lock up on me and was forced to do a hard reboot.

After that I am unable to run the game.

Every single time I try to launch the game I get this error:

Unhandled exception

Program: ...ctive\Carrier Command Gaea Mission\carrier.exe

Reason: Access violation. Illegal read by 100d080a at fffffffc

[enf::ScriptContext::FreeString]: ??? addr:0x100d080a

[enf::ScriptContext::FreeString]: ??? addr:0x100d080a

(Press Retry to debug the application - JIT must be enabled)

Runtime mode

As soon as I click the icon for the game I get this error.

What has happened to my game?

I have so enjoyed playing this game since its release, that this issue got me really ticked off.

I even tried to reinstall the game, but I still get this error.

Looks like its the end for me.

Edited October 3, 2012 by Bansheedragon

[Bansheedragon 1]

After deleting the Carrier Command folder in the "My Documents folder I was able to start the game again.

And after a hell of a lot of back and forth I was finally able to get my old savegames working.

I wish I knew what happened to cause all this crap.

Edited October 3, 2012 by Bansheedragon

[dram 14]

Whoa, sounds like the ccsettings.xml in your documents/CarrierCommand was corrupted. Probably was saving settings into it at the time of the lock up. Or possibly the profile got currupted. In any case, should this re-occur, try deleting the ccsettings.xml file first, as it is generated on game startup if not present.

[Bansheedragon 1]

Thanks, I'll keep that in mind.

Took me allot of work to get the savegames running again.

First I reinstalled the game.

Then I did a system recovery, as that has been known to solve such problems in the past

Then I downloaded the game again and reinstalled to see if that would fix it.

When I did that I got version 1.2, and it dont seem to be compatible with my savegames.

I got an ingame error saying the savegame was invalid.

I eventually uninstalled it and then reinstalled 1.2, then copied the profile subfolder with the savegames to the Carrier Command in "My Documents".

Once I did that the game would start and accept my savegame files, and I could continue to play.

Are the savegames incompatible with the newer version of the game?

Edited October 4, 2012 by Bansheedragon

[dram 14]

Are the savegames incompatible with the newer version of the game?

Yes unfortunately so. Due to many improvements and fixes in the game with regards to scripts, unit configs and the engine itself, it is not possible to keep compatibility with saves of older saves.