(HELP!) UT crashes with this error :

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"(HELP!) UT crashes with this error "

You could be right because I keep forgetting about the fact that this forum supports both, however he references UT.


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Hey guys there have been several posts on this. If you do a search on "assertion errors" you will find quite a few.

I was at first getting those errors when I tried to launch the game, then I made some changes, which I'll get into, and I could get into the game, but would get dumped at some point in the game with the error.

1. to stop the error when launching the game I copied all of the files from the cd to my hard drive and then ran the install from my hard drive. That worked. I was noe able to launch the game. This was covered by epic on Dec 20th, and I will list there info in quotes at the end of this post.

2. After that though, was when I started getting the errors while playing the game. To stop that I copied the map files from the cd to my UT\maps folder where the game is installed on my harddrive. This stopped the errors while in the game, and it seems like I'm all set.

3. I also ran the no-cd patch which can be found at http://www.gamecopyworld.com/. I have a liscensed copy of the game.

To make a long story longer... Ocassionally they still pop up. I've even tried tweaking my cache to stop it. At 4 meg they still happened, at 64 meg they still happened and at 16 meg they disapeared again...

Basically according to Epic there is an issue with the actual copying of files during the install. By copying the files local I have been able to pretty much suppress the error, but it always seems to be in the background waiting to STRIKE... NOT UNLIKE MYSELF...

Better watch your back /~unreal/ubb/html/wink.gif


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Sorry, I forgot to post Epic's spew on this...

We are seeing reports of several different problems that appear to be due to problems reading files of the game CD.
For example:

Critical: appError called:
Critical: Assertion failed: InPos>=0

There are also other examples, such as problems with running a particular map. Some people have reported problems applying the 402 patch because some file (such as botpack.u or umenu.u) is not recognized properly from their CD.

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You might try the following reinstall procedure, simple as it
seems it has helped a lot of people with weird errors.

Corrupted files are sometimes installed without any error messages with some
CD-ROM drives; data is copied to your HD with read-errors, but for some
reason the CD drive doesn't warn the installer and everything appears to
have installed OK.

Copy everything from the CD to the hard drive, (running scandisk first to be
absolutely sure there's nothing wrong with the hard drive) then install from
the hard drive to the final destination folder. (you'll still need the CD in
the drive for playing.) Also, please make sure you install into a clean
(new) folder, not on top of any existing UT or UT-demo content.

If your only problem is with patching, you only need to copy the system directory from the CD. When the patch installer asks you for your CD directory, give it the directory in which the temporary system directory resides (if you copied the system directory to c:\UTtemp\system, then tell the patch installer that c:\UTtemp is your CD.





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