Problem with place names...

[Tzar]

Hello guys,

I've been playing TOAW for a couple of days now and I really enjoy it.

There's one minor bugger though: I can't have the cities' name displayed on the map. Whatever option I try with the Place Names menu (visible, floating, invisible), city names never show up :confused:

When I put my cursor over an hex with a city, I can see the name of the city in the information panel below. But the name never appears on the map, which I found annoying when you are looking for a specific city.

Any ideas about what could be the problem? BTW, I am running it the game on Windows XP and all other aspects seem to be working fine.

[Dan Neely]

do you have the latest directX and toaw patches? versions prior to Acow 1.04 didn't display placenames under the NT kernal. From what I recall, Norm said that the problem was a windows api call not behaving as documented and that he had to kluge around it. Afaik none of the earlier versions were ever fixed

[Tiberius]

The other thing that you should do to help it is right click on the shortcut to start the game (or menu item in the start menu), select "properties" and under the compatability tab choose "windows 2000 compatability". This was posted in another thread and it solved all my xp problems (albeit different ones).

[Tzar]

Thanks guys for the info.

I have an old version of TOAW Volume 1. So I have updated it with the 1.07 patch available on TalonSoft website but it did not change anything.

I also tried the compatibility solution, but it did not work too. I have ordered A Century of Warfare yesterday, so I guess I will have to wait for it and install ACOW to get rid of the problem.

[Dan Neely]

I think you're sol. Norm has written a 1.08 patch for toaw1, but Take 2 refuses to wrap the executable with safedisk, and also refuses to let him release the patch unofficially without any protection. Your choices are living with the problem or buying a copy of acow unfortunately.

[Major Banned]

Originally posted by Tzar
Hello guys,

I've been playing TOAW for a couple of days now and I really enjoy it.

There's one minor bugger though: I can't have the cities' name displayed on the map. Whatever option I try with the Place Names menu (visible, floating, invisible), city names never show up :confused:

When I put my cursor over an hex with a city, I can see the name of the city in the information panel below. But the name never appears on the map, which I found annoying when you are looking for a specific city.

Any ideas about what could be the problem? BTW, I am running it the game on Windows XP and all other aspects seem to be working fine.

Get rid of XP, that's how you fix it. Bill Gates the AntiChrist has had his software arch-demons imbed subliminal messages into the operating system, to forces the masses into only buying products that have the Microsoft label on them.
Do yourself a favor, format your hard drive and beg, borrow, or steal an earlier version of Windows. The alternative is too horrible to comprehend.
:devious:

[Tzar]

Originally posted by Major Catastrophe


Get rid of XP, that's how you fix it. Bill Gates the AntiChrist has had his software arch-demons imbed subliminal messages into the operating system, to forces the masses into only buying products that have the Microsoft label on them.
Do yourself a favor, format your hard drive and beg, borrow, or steal an earlier version of Windows. The alternative is too horrible to comprehend.
:devious:

:) Thanks for the tip, but no way sir! :)

I have too much suffered on Windows 98 to come back to this hell. It was crashing about once or twice a day. A complete piece of, well, what you know. I've had XP for about 4 months now and it has crashed only once. HUGE difference in reliability.

I think I would prefer to be part of Paulus VIth army trapped in Stalingrad rather than get Windows 98 on my PC again :D

[Dan Neely]

get 2k then. it's also NT based and rock solid. In almost a year, I've never had a crash that wasn't hardware related.

[JAMiAM]

Of course they made XP more stable. Kind of hard to spy on you 24/7 if the OS isn't up to it.

However, keeping your Win98 clean and practicing safe computing can go a long way toward keeping it stable. My home built system rarely has any problems and it runs Win98SE. I simply don't see a need to go with XP, though likely when I finally get a laptop it'll be saddled with Gates' spyware...err...XP.:gas:

[Major Banned]

Originally posted by JAMiAM
Of course they made XP more stable. Kind of hard to spy on you 24/7 if the OS isn't up to it.

However, keeping your Win98 clean and practicing safe computing can go a long way toward keeping it stable. My home built system rarely has any problems and it runs Win98SE. I simply don't see a need to go with XP, though likely when I finally get a laptop it'll be saddled with Gates' spyware...err...XP.:gas:

I also run Windows 98 flawlessly and often times my P.C. may get rebooted once every couple of weeks. Other than the ability for the "thought" police to infiltrate your home through the XP O/S, I don't care for the fact that Microsoft is trying to force us away from the old DOS based software. Alot of the best computer games are still DOS based programs and I don't want to give them up.
Has anyone out there had any experience with running ACOW in the Linux environment?

[Palantir]

Hey Tzar,

Every problem you had I had with my new XP also, plus a ton more. I still don't get place names on TOAW I, and TOAW in general requires several attempts every time to get in.

Do a search on "XP" at the old forum site for a list of problems & solutions.
:skull:

[Tzar]

Originally posted by Kerry
Hey Tzar,

Every problem you had I had with my new XP also, plus a ton more. I still don't get place names on TOAW I, and TOAW in general requires several attempts every time to get in.

Do a search on "XP" at the old forum site for a list of problems & solutions.
:skull:

Thanks for the tip, I will look there but what do you mean by the "old forum"? Was there an old forum before?

[JAMiAM]

Originally posted by Tzar


Thanks for the tip, I will look there but what do you mean by the "old forum"? Was there an old forum before?

On the home page there is a link for the old forums. Lots of interesting stuff there.;)

[Tzar]

I have found the old forums now. There is indeed a lot of information on XP and TOAW.

I don't understand why some people have so many problems running TOAW or ACOW on XP. The only single problem I've had so far was the place names. All the rest is working fine, no crashes or weird behavior (I haven't tried the scenario editor however).

The compatibility solution doesn't seem to work with TOAW Vol. I, but does help fix most issues when turned on under ACOW as I have read. So I will keep waiting my ACOW copy to arrive home :D

[ALF]

Originally posted by Major Catastrophe


I also run Windows 98 flawlessly and often times my P.C. may get rebooted once every couple of weeks. Other than the ability for the "thought" police to infiltrate your home through the XP O/S, I don't care for the fact that Microsoft is trying to force us away from the old DOS based software. Alot of the best computer games are still DOS based programs and I don't want to give them up.
Has anyone out there had any experience with running ACOW in the Linux environment?

It isn't on wine's 'compatibility list', but it would surprise me alot if it wouldn't work...

[Major Banned]

Originally posted by Gordon Shumway


It isn't on wine's 'compatibility list', but it would surprise me alot if it wouldn't work...

I know that people are getting Steel Panthers to run in Linux, so it would not surprise me if ACOW would run. Linux is free, so we could tell the AntiChrist and his Harpy wife to kiss off. Plus I could break my 486 33Mhz back out and get some years of service out of it.
:p

[ALF]

Originally posted by Major Catastrophe


I know that people are getting Steel Panthers to run in Linux, so it would not surprise me if ACOW would run. Linux is free, so we could tell the AntiChrist and his Harpy wife to kiss off. Plus I could break my 486 33Mhz back out and get some years of service out of it.
:p

Well... use your ol' 486 if you're prepared to go by the 1 turn/day rate. :) I saw games like AOE/AOK, Civ3 and such on the list, so if Norm just avoided real exotic calls I'm pretty confident it would run... and yes, Linux is really an option these days.

[Major Banned]

Originally posted by Gordon Shumway


Well... use your ol' 486 if you're prepared to go by the 1 turn/day rate. :) I saw games like AOE/AOK, Civ3 and such on the list, so if Norm just avoided real exotic calls I'm pretty confident it would run... and yes, Linux is really an option these days.

I have some friends of mine that are running a profitable ISP with a 486 100Mhz with Mandrake and Apache Web Server. I think I may be able to get more than one turn a day out of my ol 33 Mhz.
Don't stay away so long next time.
Death to the AntiChrist!
:bandit:

[ALF]

Originally posted by Major Catastrophe


I have some friends of mine that are running a profitable ISP with a 486 100Mhz with Mandrake and Apache Web Server. I think I may be able to get more than one turn a day out of my ol 33 Mhz.
Don't stay away so long next time.
Death to the AntiChrist!
:bandit:

Sure, but this is running win-software on a windows emulator, I'm pretty sure the emulator won't make better use of the 486 than Windows does... but, hey... thinking twice... 10yrs experience of Windoze somehow tells me the opposite. :)

I get by here now and then, so I see most of what's written... too much work now... but that'll change :)

[Major Banned]

Originally posted by Gordon Shumway


Sure, but this is running win-software on a windows emulator, I'm pretty sure the emulator won't make better use of the 486 than Windows does... but, hey... thinking twice... 10yrs experience of Windoze somehow tells me the opposite. :)

I get by here now and then, so I see most of what's written... too much work now... but that'll change :)

Reminds me of IBM's OS/2 Version 2.1. Ran Windoze programs better then Windoze did. Then they screwed up and came out with Warp.