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Hello everyone. I received this crash trying to run the game and wanted to share the fix for those of you that have the same issue
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------------> Reproduction steps
Load Drakan
Install the community patch
Install the map pack
"I think the Map pack caused the problem"
run the game
click on a difficulty level.
at this point the game disappeared with no visible error
check windows event viewer and open the application logs to see the error
Solution
Run or Rerun the Drakan Community patch installer
When it asks you to Select Components, choose "Compact installation, contains only the files required to play Drakan"
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------------ Hardware
OS - Microsoft Windows 11 Pro
CPU - AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO 3945WX
Video Card - NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti
Memory (RAM) - 64.0 GB
Thanks for letting us know. It sounds like a bad map or one of the files that were changed in the patch. The developer of the community patch hasn't been on Discord for years now so this is very useful.
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