So I was editing with scmdraft last night with no problems, but come this afternoon it was a different story. I clicked on the location tab and it crashed. I thought, hmmm just a temporary setback, I'll just restart scmdraft. Then it happens again, then again and again. Then I thought it was the map. I opened up another map. Same thing happened. Opened up 5 different maps that were working fine last night and now whenever I click on the location tab it ALWAYS crashes. Even when creating a new map, it will ALWAYS crash scmdraft. Has anyone ever had this problem before? Or am I just an unlucky SOB?
It's like scmdraft just stopped working out of the blue. I can't do anything with it anymore. This is really weird, is there a config file it uses somewhere to save its settings? Maybe I need to delete that?
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Post has been edited 1 time(s), last time on Feb 21 2010, 9:34 pm by RetPallylol.
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Rebooting doesn't work. Reinstalling scmdraft did not work for me. It still crashes every single time whenever I click on locations tab on every single map, including new maps. It couldn't be an incompatibility issue with Win7 as I am running Vista.
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Did you try to delete your backup database yet?
Click on, while in scmdraft, advanced --> backup databse --> clear backups.
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Wouldn't a fresh install of scmdraft have an empty backup files folder? I tried to open it up and it was empty in scmdraft.
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Rebooting doesn't work. Reinstalling scmdraft did not work for me.
If you read the thread I linked, they did not work for me either.
It still crashes every single time whenever I click on locations tab on every single map, including new maps. It couldn't be an incompatibility issue with Win7 as I am running Vista.
Win7 is mostly the same as Vista for a lot of the internal stuff. You should still try the solution that worked for me, it may work for you. Especially because the error you are describing sounds pretty much the same as mine. Deleting the backup DB did not fix my problem.
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Ahh sorry the compatibility thing went right over my head. I didn't realize I had to go to the exe and click on properties. But that worked for me. What a weird issue. I wonder what causes this...? Anyways, thanks for the help everyone. You guys are awesome as usual!
Solution: go to scmdraft exe, properties --> XP service pack 2, click apply, ok
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Check if taking the compatibility mode off and running it normally works fine for you now.
Since I made that thread and fixed the issue, I've been running in regular Win7 mode without any compatibility settings and have not had the issue appear again at all.
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Ultraviolet -- I suppose we'll likely never know, but my guess would be that they already saw it operating successfully and there was no monetary incentive to finish the original work. And the dev cycle in old school Blizzard was so hectic, it's possible it just got forgotten about after the original game got released. Plus there's an element of existing MPQ files that were packaged with the original discs becoming outdated if they updated it. And it's not like they remade the original MPQs, they just made new ones for BW specifically
NudeRaider -- to clarify: couldn't recall the behavior for every single Protoss building but I was aware the disparity exists.
