Phalanx walking back in Multiplayer

[Kival]

Yesterday I tried some LAN-Battles with the EB-Engine (clean new installs of RTW+EB etc.) and it worked although it crashed somewhat often in the battles. At one point we got a weird bug, my friend made some crazy formations with his Silvershields (one in front, one on the left and the right flank pointing diagonal to the site and one phalanx to the back... yeah, not historical at all but as he likes...). However, sometime after an unwanted charge of my celtic chariots into his phalanx, no melee fighting any more the phalanx started to move backwards, faces still forward but after all going out of phalanx, switching guard mode on and off the still tried to do it again and again.

Any idea what could have happened there or how we could lessen the occuring crashes?

[vartan]

Re: Crashes
Look at possible openings for memory to leak. Is your page file too small? Have you tried amending the RTW executable file header to allow the engine to access over the default amount of 2GB of RAM (assuming you have 2GB to begin with)?

Re: Phalanx Bug
As far as I know, this bug wasn't dealt with until the developer released version 1.9 of the engine, better known as Alexander. Since almost all MP (and all MP I am aware of) uses the default EB/RTW setup as that is what most people do have in common, don't expect to be playing multiplayer EB on 1.9 engine anytime soon. Sorry.

[Subotan]

A Phalanx Circle? He deserved to get the bug.

[Kival]

Re: Crashes
Look at possible openings for memory to leak. Is your page file too small? Have you tried amending the RTW executable file header to allow the engine to access over the default amount of 2GB of RAM (assuming you have 2GB to begin with)?

I'll have a look at it, we Did not play on one of my PCs but I'm quite sure it crashed mostly on the pc with more ram.


Re: Phalanx Bug
As far as I know, this bug wasn't dealt with until the developer released version 1.9 of the engine, better known as Alexander. Since almost all MP (and all MP I am aware of) uses the default EB/RTW setup as that is what most people do have in common, don't expect to be playing multiplayer EB on 1.9 engine anytime soon. Sorry.


Ah, I've plaved EB such a long time with the Alex.exe, perhaps i just forgot that I had that bug earlier, too. But it does not occur allways. In some battles with egypt or carthage I used some pike phalanx but no problem occured. Do you know what triggers the bug?

If I only play with this friend could we both use alex engine for multiplayer?

[vartan]

If I only play with this friend could we both use alex engine for multiplayer?
You would both have to have the same setup for it to work. For instance, I installed EB 1.2 with fixes. Then I applied the Alex engine-only mod on Maksimus' page. In that case, if you load the Multiplayer EDU, then run EB with the Alex executable, you should in theory be both able to play.