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That's great to hear @Tokamaps! I'm looking forward to seeing what you can come up with :)

Oh, really? What was the problem you had? I can open it up fine on mine.

As the weeks progress, so do the difficulty and variety of the challenges! This week is a graphics design challenge, which is .... Create an elite unit skin for archers in Stronghold Legends The skin can be anything you like, from a modified unit .etc, to a completely custom-made skin - but at least 40% of the unit must be changed in some way from the original skin if that's what you use. This could be as simple as changing the colour, or a total reconstruction. Useful resources http://www.stronghold-nation.com/article/203-editing-dds-files http://www.stronghold-nation.com/downloads/file/354-dds-converter/ Note: Your entry must be attached to this topic by Midnight on Saturday to be counted in this challenge (16/1/16 23:59). If no entry is attached (via .zip. then your entry will not be counted! The results will be revealed on Sunday. Good luck everyone!

That sounds interesting - how do you intend to install it? If you like I could write an install script sometime like I did for the SH2 Custom music pack?

That's a very clever effect! I'll have to try that out tomorrow when I'm marking the 52 weeks entries, and write up that article for it :D

Hey, this sounds like a good idea! I don't think I'll have the time to play-test, but I will watch its progress very carefully. It sounds most intriguing!

Unfortunately, it was done for the wrong game and is not valid :( However - it would be nice to play three for the first challenge - I will still play it if you'd like, and if you upload it to our downloads I'll give it a full review :) Thank you and [user]tokamaps] for your entries! They will be played and you will find out the winner very soon! The next challenge will be posted tomorrow morning. :)

Thank you @Fail Session! A reminder to the rest of you - the contest closes at midnight today! Good luck!

Great to hear everybody! We're looking forward to seeing what entries you can produce! :)

This is a very neat trick! Thanks for sharing - it sure will come in useful, I'll definitely try this out on my next map. :)

Thanks for the update, and good to hear you got to the bottom of what was causing you so much grief! I'm sure many people will be thankful for this :)

Yes! You can do anything, as long as it meets the criteria for this week. :) You can attach files by going to the full reply mode (click "post reply" on the bottom right or top right of the topic)

And the first challenge has just been posted! You can view it here: http://forums.stronghold-nation.com/topic/666-week-1-stronghold-2/

Welcome to 52 weeks of Stronghold! Over the next 52 weeks, you will face a large variety of challenges of different levels to make yourself a better gamer - starting with .... Stronghold 2! Your challenge for this week: Create a basic invasion map in Stronghold 2 The map can be as detailed or vague looking as you want, design a large map or a small, make it as functional as you want - the details are up to you! The admin team have compiled a list of useful resources for each week which will guide those of you who are not as certain of what to do. Useful resources: http://www.stronghold-nation.com/article/186-a-map-editor-tutorial http://www.stronghold-nation.com/article/77-triggers-and-events-overview http://www.stronghold-nation.com/article/76-scenario-types http://www.stronghold-nation.com/article/1-map-editor-overview Note: Your entry must be attached to this topic by Midnight on Saturday to be counted in this challenge (9/1/16 23:59). If no entry is attached (via .zip. then your entry will not be counted! The results will be revealed on Sunday. Feel free to ask any questions - good luck!

Good to hear the issue is resolved. :)

Screenshot maybe? I'm honestly not sure about what is to blame here. It's beyond my hardware knowledge.

It's definitely overheating, from what I see there. What you need to do is track down what's open, whether it will overheat if you do the same things multiple times (e.g. opening a specific steam game) .etc. I'd personally try to narrow down the problem - what things do you have open in the background? I'd open things such as Task Manager and see what the resource usage says. Regarding overclocking - I personally wouldn't do it and see if it helps at all. But unless you have a really good reason to overclock, personally I would never do it. 95% of the time at least, I would say you would not normally need to overclock.

You mean above? That's Bbcode from the editor. It's a known bug.

Well that's good to hear that the issue has been resolved. :)

Welcome @Frankel! It seems like you have a lot of Crusader knowledge, you play the game very well! They should be in the same folder as standard Crusader saves, in My Documents/Stronghold Crusader/, I should think. Let me know if they aren't and I'll rethink. :) You sound like the ultimate Crusader player and it's great to have you on-board!

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Welcome @bopa16931! That's a very precise file size that makes the game crash. How do you know it's exactly those file sizes? Have you tried verifying the integrity of your steam cache? Login to the Steam client Within Library, right-click on Stronghold Crusader 2 and select Properties Select the Local Files tab and click the Verify Integrity of Game Cache... button. Steam will check all the game files were downloaded correctly. This process may take several minutes. If any files are missing Steam will download them the next time you run the game. Let us know if any of these things work. If I don't have a chance to reply here again beforehand, have a good Christmas!

Glad to have you with us @Fail Session! You will not be disappointed! :)

The error should be fixed. Let me know if you encounter any more over the PM. :)

I probably won't have the time to playtest so don't want to commit to something I might not be able to do. But like Crusader, I'm very impressed too - and I would love to see the map. That's incredible! 30 scripts is an awful lot. Well done. :D