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Posted July 17, 2015
What can I do if my game crashes to desktop?

We've gotten reports of a game-breaking bug in Warhammer 40:00 Chaos Gate. While we work on implementing a solution to the issue, here's what you can do get back on track in the meantime:

If your game crashes when you select to start a mission, please make sure that it is installed to a simple location. The installation path can only have 2 subfolders and 35 characters total. For example, the default installation directory will work:

C:/GOG Games/WH40K Chaos Gate



Stay tuned for more updates, and don't hesitate to get in touch with our support team if your issues persist.
Posted July 17, 2015
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CharlesGrey: Considering that many ( new ) users seem to be completely unaware of the existence of game specific sub-forums, it's probably the best way to achieve maximum exposure. ( And to keep people from bombarding GOG with support tickets and new threads about this issue. )
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Pheace: Well if they moved into the 90's and actually put a forum link on the storepage ... seriously, what's their reluctance doing that? Of course the game subforums aren't frequented often as a result.
Easier to moderate only one forum? Honestly that's the only reason I can think of.
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Tarm: Wasn't eight characters maximum in the early PC games era?
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thefifthhorseman.229: 8.3 (name.extension) is the limit for DOS and Windows 3 (IIRC). Still, even without that you want to avoid using special characters and spaces in the paths... not all games tolerate those.
Ah thanks.
Didn't they change? I sorta remember DOS not always recognising some special characters and therefore changing them to something it did "know"?
Ha ha this is what GOG mainly is for me. Nostalgia happiness. :)
Post edited July 17, 2015 by Tarm
Posted July 17, 2015
WTF?
I actually looked at the calendar to check it wasn't April 1st.
Posted July 17, 2015
Also, even now, Windows has some reserved names. For example, "com", "nul", and "lptr" (I think). Try downloading the attachment to this post and saving it as nul.jpg for example.

(For anyone who can't view the attachment, note that it has absolutely no content, so you're not missing anything.)
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Posted July 17, 2015
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adaliabooks: Eh.. should this be in the Chaos Gate forum?
It's friday. GOG is in Poland. That's the Vodka belt. :)
Posted July 17, 2015
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Tarm: Easier to moderate only one forum? Honestly that's the only reason I can think of.
Unless it's spam (which hits subforums anyway) they don't moderate unless in extreme circumstances, so even that isn't a valid reason.
Posted July 17, 2015
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dtgreene: Also, even now, Windows has some reserved names. For example, "com", "nul", and "lptr" (I think). Try downloading the attachment to this post and saving it as nul.jpg for example.

(For anyone who can't view the attachment, note that it has absolutely no content, so you're not missing anything.)
Interesting! Win 8.1 says it can't show it because it contains errors.

Edit: And the name changes. Also when I try to download it. The nerd part of my pesonality loves these kind of things.
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Tarm: Easier to moderate only one forum? Honestly that's the only reason I can think of.
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Pheace: Unless it's spam (which hits subforums anyway) they don't moderate unless in extreme circumstances, so even that isn't a valid reason.
They still have to watch so that anything really nasty doesn't slip through.
But yeah it's a long shot reason. As I said it's the only one I can come up with.
Post edited July 18, 2015 by Tarm
Posted July 17, 2015
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IronArcturus: Yeah, the Corsairs Gold has been around for years. <a href="http://www.gog.com/forum/general/solution_bcrash_to_desktopb_in_warhammer_40000_chaos_gate_b1924/post15" class="link_arrow"></a></div> [url=http://www.gog.com/forum/corsairs_gold/sluggish_game]In my case...
Posted July 18, 2015
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IronArcturus: Yeah, the Corsairs Gold has been around for years. <a href="http://www.gog.com/forum/general/solution_bcrash_to_desktopb_in_warhammer_40000_chaos_gate_b1924/post15" class="link_arrow"></a></div><div class="small_avatar_2_h"><img src="//images.gog.com/1befd9b125ae5b48b613dd732e52b4774a119c9b8141c1b6641f5faef87b4afd_avm.jpg" width="16" height="16" alt="avatar" /></div><span class="quot_text"><span class="quot_user_name">Cyraxpt: </span></span>[url=http://www.gog.com/forum/corsairs_gold/sluggish_game]In my case...
Yeah, it's a shame the issues were never fixed. It reminds me of the forever-broken soundtrack of Prince of Persia 2008. :( For years I've been waiting for it to be repaired...
Posted July 18, 2015
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GOG.com: C:/GOG Games/WH40K Chaos Gate
Btw, it's C:\GOG Games\WH40K Chaos Gate
Posted July 18, 2015
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GOG.com: C:/GOG Games/WH40K Chaos Gate
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DeMignon: Btw, it's C:\GOG Games\WH40K Chaos Gate
Doh!
Posted July 18, 2015
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Tarm: Ah thanks.
Didn't they change? I sorta remember DOS not always recognising some special characters and therefore changing them to something it did "know"?
Ha ha this is what GOG mainly is for me. Nostalgia happiness. :)
No. Long file names were used through an extension to the file system, while DOS had access to the "real" 8.3 names the long file names were mapped to.
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Tarm: It's friday. GOG is in Poland. That's the Vodka belt. :)
That remark was... inaccurate. And very, very unwise.
Post edited July 18, 2015 by thefifthhorseman.229
Posted July 18, 2015
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Tarm: Ah thanks.
Didn't they change? I sorta remember DOS not always recognising some special characters and therefore changing them to something it did "know"?
Ha ha this is what GOG mainly is for me. Nostalgia happiness. :)
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thefifthhorseman.229: No. Long file names were used through an extension to the file system, while DOS had access to the "real" 8.3 names the long file names were mapped to.
I'm not talking about long names here but special characters. Might have something to do with me not having a english keyboard.

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Tarm: It's friday. GOG is in Poland. That's the Vodka belt. :)
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thefifthhorseman.229: That remark was... inaccurate. And very, very unwise.
I'm a Swede and Sweden is also logged in the vodka belt. Your response is noted and filed as "wrong". ;)
Posted July 18, 2015
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Tarm: Wasn't eight characters maximum in the early PC games era?
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evilnancyreagan: actually I think 6 was the maximum length for a filename back in the DOSdays

I was a Mac kid tho so, what few early PC experiences I do have are pretty fuzzy
Hmmm it's referred as 8.3, so 8 would be the max, although you could have sub folders so the full path location could be longer. Generally 256 characters or less for win 95 and before...

Although if you go back earlier to using floppies and didn't use directories, then it would be 8 characters.

Or if you booted from a floppy, you never saw the filenames directly....
Posted July 18, 2015
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thefifthhorseman.229: No. Long file names were used through an extension to the file system, while DOS had access to the "real" 8.3 names the long file names were mapped to.
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Tarm: I'm not talking about long names here but special characters. Might have something to do with me not having a english keyboard.
DOS had specific restrictions on characters allowed in file names. Windows handled special characters in file names by using VFAT same as for long file names. Still, even some fairly modern software can experience issues if its' developers did not account for localized file and directory names - I've seen that more than once.
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Tarm: I'm a Swede and Sweden is also logged in the vodka belt. Your response is noted and filed as "wrong". ;)
Trust me. *whistles while polishing polearms*
Posted July 18, 2015
Hmmm it occurs to me Linux/Unix systems wouldn't have this issue, one of the main reasons is there's a change-root (chroot) ability where you could forcibly limit and contain a program to a smaller subset of your filesystem... Which would be heavily helpful... Or if you are using DOSBOX it does the same thing when mounting folders/drives...
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