Repeatable Crash with Video
 

I can reproduce this crash (reboots the computer automatically) at will now and unfortunately, it is a big enough crash that it has rendered the game unplayable for me. I get this crash when I do this:

New Game => Check MAL in "Select Standard Leagues" => Give a name to my game: "Majors" or "Major Leagues" or something else. => Click "Start Game", this gets me the Create Manager screen. I change my nationality to "Indian" and Year of Birth to 1980. => Hit "OK".

When it gets to Creating Logos and it reaches 52%, it crashes, resulting in the computer rebooting automatically. It is happening everytime. Below is a video of this crash in case it helps you to diagnose the problem.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...41855764417727

The video is about 3 minutes long and a bit shaky as I am trying to film with my left hand and create the league with the right.


One time, it gave me a BSOD (in WinXP SP2, no less), which I am attaching as a pic, in case that might help.

I would love to play this game but I can't due to the crashes...

Some info on my system:

I am running Windows XP SP2 on an AMD Athlon 1800+ w/ 1 GB RAM. I have been able to reproduce this crash with my anti-virus software activated and while it was disabled. No other major programs were running at the time except for programs minimized in the System Tray: Skype, Yahoo IM, and Firewall.

Sounds like either file corruption or a dying HDD.

Try uninstalling/reinstalling the game and see if it helps. Make sure to completely delete the folder before reinstalling.

Well, a bad IDE controller or motherboard is possible, too, given the fact that error+auto-reboot was the symptom when my PC died. Of course, that was on everything, and not just one function of one app.

No change of a bad IDE controller or MB as this crash happens only with OOTP 2006. I can play plenty of other games (OOTP 6.5, PureSim 2007, Brian Lara Cricket 2005, Civ 4, MVP Baseball 2005) and have experience no such problems.

OK, so I will try this next . . .and report back as I have similar specs and a patch applied. You'll have to be a bit patient, as the test season being run right now is massive.

Edit:
At least you don't ask for 64 teams with 5 sets of minors .:cool:

I was able to create a manager in a MAL league born in 1980 using a patch candidate.

Any news on this install?

Terrible... Before I applied the patch, I uninstalled the game, and reinstalled it to make sure there would be no corrupted files. Once the patch was applied, I tried to create a new league and when it got to "Creating Logos - 52%", the computer rebooted. The league had been saved by this time though so I was able to load once the computer started back up. Turns out that it had calculated my age wrong, see pic below.

Then, I tried to create a Historical league by clicking on "Add a Historical Major League". It sees the Lahman DB correctly, loads it correctly too. Then, the moment it tries to import players, it crashes. I have tried all evening and everytime, its the same thing.

I am extremely frustrated as my time has been totally wasted...

I also tried to create MAL and Historical leagues with all non-essential programs shut down (i.e., I only had a Network Connection icon in the Systray active, no other program except OOTP 2006. I even shutdown firewall and anti-virus).

I'll make an ankit2 league and attempt again to duplicate.

I am running this on an AMD-based PC, could that be a problem?

Could be . . .please post some basic system specs

I had a similar problem as you have with just one game, MVP Baseball 2005. I could not save my profile! Every other game played fine, just MVP. Finally I found the problem. After running chkdsk I had some bad sectors. After using PartitionMagic and some trickery, I got around them and reinstalled MVP. Works flawless now. Apparently that part of the game was at the bad sectors part.

LarryP.

See post #2 above. Let me know if you need more info.

Having a very hard time duplicating error. . .

That was an obvious mistake on my part. That's what I was driving at.

Going to have to ask for more eyeballs.

I have asked for additional resources on this issue.

Installed the game on my laptop (Intel Pentium IV, 2.4 GHz, 512 MB RAM, ATI Mobility M6 Video Chip, WinXP SP2). Creating a historical league and as well as an MAL standard league worked like a charm... Same programs running in the background as I have on my desktop. Also, did the ChkDsk thing on my Desktop and had no hard drive errors.

Thinking it may be an AMD vs. Intel CPU issue...

#1 good to hear plan B is working. when possible, give your views on game

#2 the CPU is a good operating hypothesis

Sleep now, hopefully others will chime in soon.

According to Bill Gates:

CAUSE
This behavior may occur if one of the following conditions is true:

• One or more of the random access memory (RAM) modules that are installed on your computer are faulty.
• The RAM configuration is incompatible with Windows XP.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/315335