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Re: Help - HoMM 5 Academy last mission crashing

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From: evilwarnut
Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2007 06:49

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> Arrrg!  The game keeps crashing everytime on the very last Academy mission.
> As soon as I attack any of the summoned demons, it crashes to desktop and I
> get a nosy request from microsoft.  I've read the forums. I've turned off
> all the eyecandy and other neat things.  I've restarted the mission and it
> still crashes.  I am using the latest patch.  Does anyone have any
> suggestions.  It's a shame to give up now after all the time I've invested
> in it.

It is a well known bug introduced by patch 1.4. Almost always when you
completely destroy a stack of gated demons, the game will crash.

Get the latest version, 1.4.1, where this bug is fixed. But your saves
might not work... so you might need to restart your current map.

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