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[Meatball]

Seem to be having some issues getting this to work on an XP machine. When I go to load up my *.vic file I get a...

"General protection fault in module VICMAN.exe at 0002:03B7"

Anyone else have this problem?

[Hamish]

I've had the same problem with one specific printout, and couldn't solve it. Try a different printout....

Hamish

[Meatball]

It happens with every turn.

[ShadowKitsune]

I think it also uses the old 20 AIR points per factory rule as well. FYI

[nfbeerse]

There is a config file with the manager. In this file you can set the AIR production.

Norbert

[tiberiusuhl]

Meatball,

I have XP Professional Version 2002 Service Pack 1 and VicManger runs fine.

I looked at what might cause the GPF (General Protection Fault). Are you running Office XP? If so, you may want to look at the following Knowledge Base Link. I found this in relation to GPF's on games like FreeCell and Solitare when Office XP is running. The cause of the problem in those cases was that the FreeCell and Solitare did not allow enough room in the stack for CTFMON. The solution was to turn off the CTFMON. The Knowledge Base Link has that information.

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?...kb;EN-US;282599

[cd_ernst]

I've had the same problem with turnsheets from France. It seems that certain city/province names are too long for the manager.

Couldn't fix it though by changing the names; messed up the entire format.

Donald

[Meatball]

Hmm...I wonder if it's either a name too long or possibly even a province name with a space in it foo's things up.

My longest province/city name is Castelo Branco. Has a space and 14 characters.

Can anyone that has a province/city with a space in it chime in if VicManager works for them? How about anything with 14+ chars? Or better yet, something 14+ chars and a space.

[Kurassier]

I've never had Vic Manager fail to work for me. Although I'm not sure the food calculations are correct.

[nfbeerse]

Kurassier,

FOOD stockpiles are summed for the entire AICnetwork. So it is possible to have FOODshortages even though it seems not to be so... They are simply in the wrong place.

With several countries I have problems with VicManager... Because of these problems I use other tools.

Norbert

[Limburgia]

Norbert.
Can we have those "other tools"

[ShadowKitsune]

Norbert,

Could you tell us where you can get these 'other tools' or are they personally made/used?

Thanks,
-SK

[jpd]

I don't know about Norbert, but I use a tool that I have written myself. In fact, the project is still growing, as ever more calculations and orders are getting supported I stopped using VICMAN long ago, as it's a 16 bit oldstyle Windows executabe, and can't even deal with long file names.

I've come to the point, where I only need to use VICTORY.EXE to enter my primary orders, and a few hardly ever used non-orders. And even that will sooner or later be incorporated into the tool.

Jan Peter

[nfbeerse]

The tools I use are using an Oracle database. All tools are made by myself. This project is still under development.
As I need more detailed summaries, I program some new code.

Because of the Oracle database these tool can not be used by other people (sorry...)

Norbert

[Limburgia]

I have an oracle database at home so the oracle part is no problem for me.