I am having a issue that is vary strange. At times the game will minimizes and completely terminate without any errors. The problem only happens maybe twice a day and only will do it every other day. I'm running a fairly new system and I have zero issues running other games. Has anyone else had a similar problem of this sort?

Lol the game was written for windows 98. It's not surprising that there are weird errors.

the game has been updated many times...

infact, its even had specific updates for windows vista and 7, that have made the game incompatible with windows 98...

 

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When DAOC crashes without an error message, it's not because it's old.


DAOC uses the operating system API that normally prevents this from happening. This API is called SetUnhandledExceptionFilter. This API is in game.dll.


This API was added to the operating system in Windows 2000, nearly two years before DAOC went live, so it may have been in game.dll all along. In any case it's in game.dll now.


Most modern programs use this API to ensure that when they trigger a fatal error, the user sees a helpful message before the program gets terminated by the operating system.


DAOC uses this API, but it doesn't bother to display a message. That's bad program design, not an indication that the program is stuck in 1998.

 

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that must explain why the game runs so well. LOL.

The game is what it is. Mythic did some things brilliantly and some things poorly. The people who created DAOC were better at some things than others. They were human.


The programming is amateurish in some ways but in other respects it's excellent. The seamlessness between zones, for example, was done extremely well.


The people who made the mistakes were the same people who created the game that's still holding all of us here. They couldn't have been complete idiots.

 

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Check in the game folder. There may be some useful information in the errorlog or the debug file.



It often seemed as if Mythic had brilliant people that were all too often allowed to run amok.

 

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even Daoc is tired of playing Daoc

 

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