Multiplayer crash

[hanvelsing]

Heya,
been loving this game for 15 years now.

Just recently, a friend and mine have done our first attempt of actually playing multiplayer.
Everything went good, for a couple of hours.
However, seemingly at random, the game hard freezes. No inputs possible whatsoever. We had to log out of our Windows session to even quit the game.

Loading an automatic save doesn't really work either; after just a couple of minutes, the game crashes again.

What causes this? We played on the dark castle co-op map, and we suspect that the enormous amounts of skeletons that eventually start piling up were too much for the game to handle...
Are there any precautions we can/should take for future attempts? I already read that loading saves tends to result in crashes, though the game froze even before loading a savegame.

Kinda sucks to lose 5 hours of gameplay where you were close to actually running down the dark castle. x)

[FanTasMa]

hehe... the game is very old, I believe that this problem is something deeper than a simple command...

add me and lets play

[hanvelsing]

That statement doesn't really solve the problem, now does it?
Unfortunately I'm not interested in this game multiplayer-wise if there is no way to say that it won't crash unsalvagably after a certain amount of play time.

[XSirius]

This game have problem lots by mp, if u use any VPNs and playing 3 and more players then sooner or later u will get crashes a game, even if u somehow load savegame its still will be, i tried it by sharing savegames to players and 50-50 its works, but exist another problem that after loading savegames u cant controlling units, about lags its depends quality of internet between u and ur opponent, so if u live in EU and ur opponent in USA then its uncomfortable for u both, so u need find another opponent which lives same region like urs, more closer - more better, its also important thing, and if in some maps are plenty units then u will get lags from host side(dunno why in mostly times host gets often lags then joiners), so yea..
And also this game dont like long matches more then few hours, so first u can get lags, after this gonna crash