GAME INFORMATION
- GAME BUILD #: 17957298
- GAME PLATFORM: Steam
- OPERATING SYSTEM: Windows 11
ISSUE EXPERIENCED
Sometimes Capture Age makes AoE2:DE hang and you have to ALT+TAB to desktop to right-mouse → close window AoE2:DE in the taskbar. But when you do that, a MS Visual C++ Runtime Library -> Assertion failed! error appears. After clicking “Abort”, a BugSplat error reporting window pops up.
Then when you launch AoE2:DE again, it says it disabled all your mods for safety reasons since the game crashed and asks you if you want to re-enable them.
FREQUENCY OF ISSUE
- 75% of the time (FREQUENTLY)
REPRODUCTION STEPS
- Launch new SP skirmish map game
- Quit match
- On Stats page, click “Spectate with CA”
- CA loads map
- Quit CA
- AoE2:DE sometimes hangs and you have to ALT+TAB to desktop to right-mouse → close window AoE2:DE in the taskbar
Then the pop-ups appear as described above, and the game disables your mods when you re-launch the game.
I had this happen also when trying to launch Replays from 1-4 months ago in Capture Age.
EXPECTED RESULT
No crashes. No mods getting disabled.
IMAGE
Since it’s an official partnership between Microsoft/World’s Edge and Capture Age, I’d like to report this issue here.
PS: None of the CA images in the below link load. Maybe server or URL changed. Similar thing was happening to images in forum posts recently, which got fixed by web admin: