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Cant seem to post in heavy metal map anyone any ideas on what could be causing this?

Heavy metal map crashes every time I try to save a map as a map file, if I save it as an image it works fine

i cannot help you, but it might be helpfull for those who can to know wich operating system you run.
win7 for example has some funny habits with how it treats files...

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typos and spelling-mistakes are property of the finder. english is not my mother-tongue.

Sorry about that

running Windows Vistas Home Premium 32bit

Map is being run as administrator in windows compatibility mode XP SP2

What happens if you open an existing map file, one included with the program, and then immediately save it? Will it save then? If so, then it may be something you're adding to the map that's causing the problem (which means there's a bug - not that you shouldn't be adding whatever it is), and that might give us a clue.

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Hi Rick,

Crashes when I try to save an unedited map in this case I used the Battleforce A map.

Errors reported in Windows Log as below

Faulting application HexMap.exe, version 1.1.0.2, time stamp 0x4de921da, faulting module ntdll.dll, version 6.0.6001.18538, time stamp 0x4cb733dc, exception code 0xc0000374, fault offset 0x000b0dbc, process id 0x1384, application start time 0x01cc8c4160b2b0b6.

- <Event xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event">
- <System>
<Provider Name="Application Error" />
<EventID Qualifiers="0">1000</EventID>
<Level>2</Level>
<Task>100</Task>
<Keywords>0x80000000000000</Keywords>
<TimeCreated SystemTime="2011-10-16T20:23:15.000Z" />
<EventRecordID>97944</EventRecordID>
<Channel>Application</Channel>
<Computer>AlanBates-PC</Computer>
<Security />
</System>
- <EventData>
<Data>HexMap.exe</Data>
<Data>1.1.0.2</Data>
<Data>4de921da</Data>
<Data>ntdll.dll</Data>
<Data>6.0.6001.18538</Data>
<Data>4cb733dc</Data>
<Data>c0000374</Data>
<Data>000b0dbc</Data>
<Data>1384</Data>
<Data>01cc8c4160b2b0b6</Data>
</EventData>
</Event>

The error is in ntdll.dll, a Windows file not supplied with HMMap. That doesn't mean HMMap is not causing the error, but it could be a corrupted Windows file, too:

http://pcsupport.about.com/od/fixthepro ... dlldll.htm

I've never heard this problem before with HMMap. I can possibly give you some additional trouble-shooting tips. Please email me with your purchase information (the email you used here didn't check out in my database), and I'll send it to you, okay?

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Rick
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I know this is kind of an old topic, but in case it helps anyone else, I had the same issue using Windows 7. I simply had to select to run the program in Compatibility Mode for Windows XP (SP3) and it worked fine after that.

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