I'm making a map for my personal mod and seem to have run into a little issue. Whenever I load it, the screen goes black and only shows my cursor, which I can't move. The strange thing is that the music and ambient sound effects seem to play just fine, but I can't do anything. I can't move my cursor, bring up the pause menu, Alt-Tab out, or even do anything with Task Manager to close ZH. I end up having to sign out and sign back in just to do anything with my computer after loading this map.

I tried deleting the minimal scripting I did but that did not change anything, and I don't believe I ever did anything with the map settings or the border. Can anybody figure out what I've done wrong here? It kinda sucks especially since I put a ton of detail into this map and it won't even load.

  RiseoftheChaosOrderCannotPlay.zip (110kb) downloaded 14 time(s).

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Create a new map and start copying stuff from your mission this new map untill the same error occurs, by then you'll figure out what caused the issue.

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Did you change the border lately? This usually happens when the border gets broken.

Do you have a backup?

If no, how much work did you put in it?

I can potentially repair it using a HEX editor, but it's a lot of work.

As far as I remember, I never touched the border.

No I do not. (Stupid me.) In fact, I actually started work on this map a few years ago but I think I had the same problem and never got around to fixing it. I must have forgotten about the problem until it happened again.

I put a *lot* of work into the map design, but the only scripting I ever did was to remove the fog of war just so I could see how it looks in-game, and to play music. It still plays the music oddly enough.
It's a really small map but I put a ton of detail into it. I definitely could just start over, maybe make the map bigger, it would just be tedious.

If you want to try fixing it with a HEX editor, it would very appreciated. If not, I'll probably just delete the map and start fresh.

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Just took a look at your map.

It's not the problem I had thought first, it's actually simple:

You placed a train engine without a waypoint path for it to take. That freezes the game. Just delete the train engine and you are good to go.

I've not looked at your map but this happens to me for a few reasons, 2 for sure.

1. If it's meant to be for multiplayer (even vs ai but you can choose your army) then you need player 1/2 starting positions.
2. If it's a mission map, then you may have forgotten to check/uncheck "is player computer controlled".