Command Ops 2 - Core Engine Build 5.1.24 Now Available

[Dave 'Arjuna' O'Connor]

Also Budd please confirm if there is a listing for Cmd Ops in the Applications list of Task Manager. Thanks.

 

[*budd*]

That for me? launch from the shortcut or exe.

 

[*budd*]

nope hasn't been no listing in the application tab i've checked, no processor activity either.

I'll shutdown and give another go.

 

[Dave 'Arjuna' O'Connor]

Budd, yes it was for you, sorry. Always from the exe please. The reason being I want to isolate shortcuts from the equation.

 

[Dave 'Arjuna' O'Connor]

Budd, but still multiple entries in Task Manager's list of open Processes?

 

[*budd*]

ok. at start up no instances of CO2 in process tab. Started from exe. 1 CO2 process starts, then like 20 seconds later 2 more start up. Nothing in the application tab regarding CO2 program running. No processor activity in the process tab regarding CO2. This time i could shutdown 1 of the processes using end process, but not the other 2. shot of the CO2 process attached.

 

[Dave 'Arjuna' O'Connor]

Budd, very intriguing. I have to say I have never come across anything like this before. I need to ask other developers to see if they can point me in the right direction. Because of the fact that the visual basic app ran and the other visual c ones didn't I still feel it must be do to with the runtimes. It may be one of those cases where the i3 chipset uses a different version of one or more of the dlls. I'll research that angle to. This may take a few days before I get an answer. I won't have forgot you. I'll be back.

 

[*budd*]

no worries Dave, thx for looking into it.

 

[planetbrain]

Hi Dave,
Sorry I had to move on yesterday due to real life. I've just now fired up my PC from being totally off for several hours & I do still have the 2 instances of CmdOps.exe running as indicated in the Details tab of task manager, this without my doing a thing:
Win 10 64 bit

 

[Dave 'Arjuna' O'Connor]

planetbrain, was you machine actually shut down before you "fired it up"?

 

[planetbrain]

Yes. Power switch set to off

 

[Dave 'Arjuna' O'Connor]

planetbrain, If the machine was actually turned off, then the RAM would have been cleared and there should be no way these processes survived. The only explanation I can see for this is either the machine hadn't really shut down or you tried to launch the game after you booted. But leave this with me for now I am taking this offline so I can seek help from other developers. I'll be back.

 

[Dave 'Arjuna' O'Connor]

Budd and planetbrain, could you try turning off your Anti-Virus and then launching the game. Before you do so, start from a cold reboot and launch from the exe in the game directory.

 

[planetbrain]

Dave,
I can confirm, after return from a total cold start after leaving for half hr., that the 2 exe files again still appeared in task manager so that launch of games in any circumstance is not possible HOWEVER...
having dual boot, I rebooted into XP with view to changing exe file name so it couldn't load on start.(I forgot my XP cant see my 3GB drive so I actually did nought).
Booted back to win 10 and files gone and GAME NOW WORKS. I just mention all this in case there's something there (more likely a quirk of my PC)

 

[Dave 'Arjuna' O'Connor]

planetbrain, hold on weren't you running win 7 pro? So let me get this straight. It works fine under Win 10 but so under win 7 on your dual boot machine?

 

[planetbrain]

Never Win7. I've only mentioned Win 10 64. The problem of the exe's showing as running by simply cold starting was always & only with Win 10 64 that somehow apparently fixed only when rebooting to it after running XP 32. I'll shut up as this is getting too drawn out but I find out tomorrow if the fix will be lasting (am currently on my laptop which is different PC). I expect it's (as I say) all a quirk of my desktop PC.

 

[Dave 'Arjuna' O'Connor]

Sorry planetbrain. I got you confused with Geoffrey Robertson. It was he who sent me in the other DxDiag report. I would be grateful if you could send me one too.

 

[*budd*]

Bingo, winner, winner,.....it appears it was my anti virus. I'm using avast free edition in case any one else has a problem. I added CO2 to the exclusion list and it appears we're good to go. I'll load up my modules and report back. Thx Dave, although i should of thought of that, usually i get a popup when there's a problem.

 

[Dave 'Arjuna' O'Connor]

Wunderbar! How I hate Avast. I should have thought of this earlier. It was one of the dev on StackOverflow that suggested this.

Geoffrey/planetbrain, can you please turn off your AV and see if this fixes it.

 

[*budd*]

modules installed just fine. Everything appears to be good to go, thx again.