AI War 3.0.0.0 crashes on start

[Martenzo]

I'm trying to play the 3.0 trial and it crashes with an unhandled exception every time I start the game.
I'm running windows 7 with a dual-core processor.

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30.01.2011 23:06:33 (3.0.0.0Trial)
-----------------------------------CurrentDomain_UnhandledException-----------------------------------System.ArgumentOutOfRangeException: Queue grow factor must be between 1 and 10.
Parameter name: growFactor

Server stack trace:
   at System.Collections.Queue..ctor(Int32 capacity, Single growFactor)
   at System.Collections.Queue..ctor()
   at System.Windows.Forms.Control.MarshaledInvoke(Control caller, Delegate method, Object[] args, Boolean synchronous)
   at System.Windows.Forms.Control.BeginInvoke(Delegate method, Object[] args)
   at System.Windows.Forms.WindowsFormsSynchronizationContext.Post(SendOrPostCallback d, Object state)
   at System.ComponentModel.AsyncOperation.Post(SendOrPostCallback d, Object arg)
   at System.ComponentModel.AsyncOperation.PostOperationCompleted(SendOrPostCallback d, Object arg)
   at Kjs.AppLife.Update.Controller.UpdateController.a(Boolean A_0)
   at System.Runtime.Remoting.Messaging.StackBuilderSink._PrivateProcessMessage(IntPtr md, Object[] args, Object server, Int32 methodPtr, Boolean fExecuteInContext, Object[]& outArgs)
   at System.Runtime.Remoting.Messaging.StackBuilderSink.PrivateProcessMessage(RuntimeMethodHandle md, Object[] args, Object server, Int32 methodPtr, Boolean fExecuteInContext, Object[]& outArgs)
   at System.Runtime.Remoting.Messaging.StackBuilderSink.AsyncProcessMessage(IMessage msg, IMessageSink replySink)

Exception rethrown at [0]:
   at System.Runtime.Remoting.Proxies.RealProxy.EndInvokeHelper(Message reqMsg, Boolean bProxyCase)
   at System.Runtime.Remoting.Proxies.RemotingProxy.Invoke(Object NotUsed, MessageData& msgData)
   at Kjs.AppLife.Update.Controller.UpdateController.g.EndInvoke(IAsyncResult A_0)
   at Kjs.AppLife.Update.Controller.UpdateController.c(IAsyncResult A_0)
   at System.Runtime.Remoting.Messaging.AsyncResult.SyncProcessMessage(IMessage msg)
   at System.Runtime.Remoting.Messaging.StackBuilderSink.AsyncProcessMessage(IMessage msg, IMessageSink replySink)
   at System.Runtime.Remoting.Proxies.AgileAsyncWorkerItem.DoAsyncCall()
   at System.Runtime.Remoting.Proxies.AgileAsyncWorkerItem.ThreadPoolCallBack(Object o)
   at System.Threading._ThreadPoolWaitCallback.WaitCallback_Context(Object state)
   at System.Threading.ExecutionContext.Run(ExecutionContext executionContext, ContextCallback callback, Object state)
   at System.Threading._ThreadPoolWaitCallback.PerformWaitCallbackInternal(_ThreadPoolWaitCallback tpWaitCallBack)
   at System.Threading._ThreadPoolWaitCallback.PerformWaitCallback(Object state)

[TechSY730]

Welcome to the forums.

I am a little confused about why you are trying to play the 3.0 version. We are already on 5.0. 

[keith.lamothe]

Yes, welcome

And yes, baffled by the 3.0 thing, did you mean to get a version that's over a year old?

Please try the 5.0 version, here's a page with links to various download mirrors:

http://arcengames.com/w/index.php/aiwar-downloads


And please let us know if you run into further issues


Thanks,
Keith

[GiffTor]

@Keith Lamonthe -
3.x is what Steam is selling right now - might want to let them know that you have 5.x out since I had the same/similar problem with it refusing to boot whatsoever on Win 7 with beaucoup RAM, drive space, GPU & processing power. I'll let SteamSupport know from my end.
Regards,
Justin ([email protected] / @gifftor)

[keith.lamothe]

@Keith Lamonthe -
3.x is what Steam is selling right now - might want to let them know that you have 5.x out since I had the same/similar problem with it refusing to boot whatsoever on Win 7 with beaucoup RAM, drive space, GPU & processing power. I'll let SteamSupport know from my end.
Regards,
Justin ([email protected] / @gifftor)

I don't know what you ran into, but Steam is definitely not selling 3.x at this time

[x4000]

Yep, it is 100% definite that they are selling 5.0, and have been for 6+ months.  If you're running into issues of that nature, first thing to try is to verify your steam cache to make sure that Steam actually downloaded the game properly.  Sometimes errors of that sort happen!

[Bleek]

As said it's 100% version 5 on Steam and works a charm!

[Nalgas]

Sadly, it won't let me download the demo with an account that already owns the game.  I was considering grabbing that to see if there were somehow some mixed up string or other in it that would prompt it to declare itself as that, if there's something weird about how they're handling the demo.  Might create another account and get my grep on later if I'm feeling really, really bored.

Almost completely unrelated, but I just randomly discovered an install I have of 3.120 in my Wine folder that hasn't been touched in nearly a year since I discovered it worked better in VirtualBox.  Maybe I should fire that up again some day so I can play in easy mode again with Raid Starships of Doom.  Heh.

[x4000]

The demo on Steam is literally identical to the full version in terms of files that it serves, so that shouldn't be an issue.

[Nalgas]

The demo on Steam is literally identical to the full version in terms of files that it serves, so that shouldn't be an issue.

In that case, I will totally not bother and will skip straight to playing Nostalgia War 3.120, if they're bitwise identical.  I got nothing, in that case.

[x4000]

and will skip straight to playing Nostalgia War 3.120, if they're bitwise identical.

Enjoy!