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felixq
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the program disappears without a trace

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Excuse my English, my native language is Spanish.

Yesterday I installed 'Battle for Wesnoth 1.12.4a' and when I start any campaign or tutorial, after initial discussions, the program disappears without a trace.
I tried between window and full screen with the same results.
Had the version 1.10.6, which functioned correctly. Uninstalled before installing version 1.12.4a.

Windows XP SP3 spanish

stderr.txt
Battle for Wesnoth v1.12.4
Started on Wed Jan 20 22:16:25 2016

Automatically found a possible data directory at C:/Archivos de programa/Battle for Wesnoth 1.12.4

Data directory: C:/Archivos de programa/Battle for Wesnoth 1.12.4
User configuration directory: C:\Documents and Settings\admin\Mis documentos\My Games\Wesnoth1.12
User data directory: C:\Documents and Settings\admin\Mis documentos\My Games\Wesnoth1.12
Cache directory: C:\Documents and Settings\admin\Mis documentos\My Games\Wesnoth1.12\cache
Checking video mode: 1024x768x32...
setting mode to 1024x768x32
20160120 22:16:25 error filesystem: Trying to open file with empty name.
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Re: the program disappears without a trace

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Hi felixq,

welcome to the forum.

Have you tried disabling the sound?
I have a cunning plan.
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Re: the program disappears without a trace

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I'll try when I get home. But the sound is perfectly heard until the campaign begins.
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Don't ask me how it (doesn't) work, but disabling the sound often seems to help with problems when running BfW on Windows XP...
I have a cunning plan.
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The sound is to blame, if the option 'Sound Effects' is active, the program disappears before showing the objectives of the campaign. If activated after you enter the mission explodes in the first fight.
The other options do not influence much, on the campaign tutorial exploded only once.
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I replaced the libvorbis-0.dll and libvorbisfile-3.dll files by of version 1.10.6 and now everything works fine.
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@felixq: We tried downgrading the libraries in question for the original 1.12.4 Win32 packaging (not 1.12.4a) in order to solve this bug and this introduced a new bug instead (topic 1, topic 2). What happens if you try toggling the Music option on and off in Preferences → Sound now that you replaced the files?

(Also, why did you get 1.12.4a instead of 1.12.5?)
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Re: the program disappears without a trace

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Libraries from 1.10.6:
All option checked -> OK. 2.5 campaign played without crash.
Adjust all slides volume -> OK.
Uncheck music option -> crash immediately.
Uncheck other control -> OK.
Touch any control in sound->advanced -> crash immediately.
Can not be replaced SDL, SDL_mixer. Crash in entry point.

In Wesnoth 1.10.6, all option in sound ok, played ok.
shadowm wrote: (Also, why did you get 1.12.4a instead of 1.12.5?)
I have a very limited monthly quota (800MB). When I had the opportunity to download it, I could not play, now that I have time I can not download the latest version. And in the changelog were not too many changes.
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