Help me get dominions running again

[Gandalf Parker]

Running Dom3 in verbose mode in windows is pretty muich the same altho it isnt as helpfull in learning it. This command will work...
dom3 -STd --port 12345 --era 1 --mapfile aran.map -g testgame

But without the more helpful linux experience I shudder at the idea of someone figuring that out error by error.

Windows does not handle redirects well. It obnoxiously sets things for you such as.. the debug log will be called log.txt and there will automatically be a stdout.txt and a stderr.txt created.

[Alneyan]

Doh! I have a fair bit of Linux experience, but that actually hindered me... (Why on Earth does the command prompt redirect output to files only, instead of displaying it in the console too?)

Anyway If you want to run the game in its 'try to tell us what's wrong' mode, you should go to Start -> Run -> Enter the path to your dominions executable in quotes, add -ddddd at the end, and attach the resulting log and sterr/stout files for public viewing. So something like: "C:\Program Files\dominions3\dom3" -ddddd (with the quotes as they appear)

I cannot promise you'll find any particularly illuminating information that way, though... still, I think it's worth a try, especially if it's just a software issue somewhere.

[Illuminated One]

On Windows you might also run dxdiag.
Either you go to Startmenu->Run and type "dxdiag" in the box that opens and execute. Or you open a console (Found in Accessoires submenu) and type "start dxdiag".
Go through the various pages of the program and run all the test to check if your video and sound card are working correctly.

(Oh, and just to eliminate the most trivial thing have you checked how much free space is left on your hard drive? Allthough windows will probably inform you if it runs out of hard drive memory)