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Old April 23rd, 2009, 02:37 PM

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Exclamation Heeeeelp! Getmany Failed? Multi-server fatal crashing!

Hello everyone, I hope you can help me. Please forgive me if I make any taboo errors or mistakes in this post.

This is my first post to the forums, although I have lurked awhile and been playing the game for a few years now. I am a member of another website that has a good collection of over 100 players at any given time taking part in various games.

I host multiple 24 hour perpetual games on my server (Vista) and we have recently begun planning and preparing a double bracket, elmination 1V1 tournament as a practice run for larger tournaments we may play in the future.

I am hosting 4 1v1 matches on my server, each with this command line sequence (but a variant in server name):

D:\dominions3\dom3.exe -S Tourney!A --noclientstart --nocredits --scoredump --port 1616 --hours 24 --uploadmaxp 2 --masterpass XXXXXX --era 1 --mapfile silentseas.map -T

There are 4 servers as such set up for this. I am also hosting 2 long term games that have been running for several weeks without any problems, each with multiple players:

1-D:\dominions3\dom3.exe -S DSNewbies --noclientstart --masterpass XXXX --port 1414 --era 2 --hours 24 -q --mapfile "Dom3_Faerun_466_NoSpecials.map" -T

2-D:\dominions3\dom3.exe -S Madness --noclientstart --port 1515 --era 2 --hours 25 -q --mapfile "Dom3_Faerun_466_NoSpecials.map" -T

Now here's the problem: This morning when I woke up, my D drive was full to capacity, with 199 Gigs of 200 Gigs being the Dominions 3 folder. The 1414 and 1515 games crashed and will not start up again- when I double click them to run the server, I get a Nagot message and the error 'Getmany Failed'.

The Bulk of the memory used in the dominions folder was in a file named something like 'sdtout' or 'stdout' or similiar; after rebooting my computer, the file was gone, the folder back to normal size, but I cannot startup the 1414 and 1515 servers without them crashing.

I tried manually C+P (and removing) the contents of the savedgame folders for the respective games, clearing out those saved games, but it allows only a brand new server to be created, right back at the initial nation claiming stage. When I return the contents to the saved games folder, I get the Gentmany error again, and an instant crash.

We have several people who have been playing for sometimes up to 60-70 turns on each server, so we have a bit invested in getting it to run smoothly; our games are 24 qhost if it makes any difference.

At any rate, I really appreciate you taking the time to read this and hope you can help me out? We were intending on running a trial tournament first and then I was hoping to involve or invite the players from this forum to take part in the future, but I don't think that will be possible if I cannot host a game without it constantly crashing.

Any suggestions? Once again, thank you.
Mr.Graves
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