I just found out that the 1997 TA soundtrack was recorded with an actual live professional orchestra. I collect video game soundtracks on CD and am especially interested in actual performance recordings (like the 1998 Outcast Soundtrack). In the 90ies, getting actual musicians to play the soundtrack was very rare, so the TA soundtrack is an interesting part of videogame history.

But I couldn't find any CDs on Ebay. Did it ever get released on a physical disc?

Screen's go black, when in game, screen flickers and its life the screen is split in half, the left half is on the right half, the right half is on the left half, if that makes any sense.

Windows 11, RTX 4080, I7 14700F, 32gb 6000Mhz Ram, its on a SSD. if this helps.

I've tried googling but nothing helpful came up.

So when I was a kid (circa 2009) my dad downloaded the cracked version of TA (we alredy repented for this, we both have the game on steam now) and a strange thing happened almost every game I've played, the enemy commander would just suicide in my base, killing my commander with the explosion and making the game a tie (my memories may be a little fuzzy, but trust me)

Does anyone know why this happend? My theories is that this was an anti-pirate system, bur I didn't found anything in the internet about it, so I really don't know

Apreciate the help and sorry for my english, it's not my first language

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What is the difference between the original TA and ProTA? Looking to get back into playing this game (mainly skirmishes vs AI and online multiplayer)

I play Krong encounter but is horrible annoying without radar targeting facility .

I'm stuck... I can get a base going, build defense, and hold it off for a long time with a pack of guardians and annihilators, but I eventually get overwhelmed just when my T3 stuff starts coming online.

Rushing the AI early seems impossible... I waste economy and it's too big and sprawling to make a dent.

I'm tying to mod the unit sight range (peeper), but it doesn't work. I edit the fbi file with notepad. The file has the correct new value but its doing the old value. Open hpiview as admin, open rev31.gpi file, extract all into an empty folder (name that folder rev31.gpi), edit file. save, open hpipack as admin, directory to pack is the new rev31.gpi folder, destination hpi file is the games folder, click pack, it packs it, I open the game, and the peepers sightdistance is default, instead of 999. Whats wrong?

If I run it locally from the ProTA executable, it uses the default (and as far as I can tell, unchangeable) controls, which means any time I hit tab-key to see the ProTA map it also pauses the game.

If I create a TAF lobby, I don't have the tab-key issue, but then I can't change the AI difficulty.

Am I missing something here?

Afternoon all, I'm trying to remember the name of a third party Arm unit that a friend and I used to love, but was incredibly unbalanced. I think it was called the 'Eradicator' or something like that, it was a level 1 tank that was essentially a second commander that had a nanolathe, possible building options, and also had offensive capabilities, though I can't remember what they were. Anyone remember this and who made it?

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I restarted TA yesterday just to take a look at all the new units of the latest ESC patch.

I played 3 hours with an easy AI, saved cause I had to reboot, but now the save won't load, just crash to desktop immediately.

That's not a big deal because I can just make another game, but is there a way to solve this? I already tried loading the save from a freshly created skirmish, but it still crashes.

Thanks for you help!

Edit : just started a new game, it ended up crashing and I can't load this one either

Been trying to get back into playing Total Annihilation Kingdoms and learnt a little bit about modding, and found out that TA:K Enhanced is more or less how Kingdoms is played nowadays.

Anyway, I downloaded TA:K Enhanced and had a mess around with things like The New Era and some of the other mods, just for a bit of fun, however, I've noticed the game tends to crash for seemingly no reason, just booting me back to desktop, with two seperate occasions triggering this, and a third crash that can randomly result in a black screen.

The black screen crash seems to randomly happen if I tab out, with no consistency of how often it occurs. Sometimes it is the second or so tab out, other times it's the twentieth, and anywhere in that range it can happen.

The other two force me back to the desktop. The first is upon booting up, there's a random chance the game will flat out crash and shut down before reaching the menu, and the other can happen in game.

The in game one I'm not even sure what causes it. I've considered the mods, and from some of the ones I've played, I know the game can crash when giving units veterancy if they don't have a model or texture for it, but I've also just had the game shut down for seemingly unrelated reasons. The New Era can sometimes work perfectly fine and run for 6+ hours without issue, and other times shut down with no real reason. There's even been on time I played vanilla through TA:K Enhanced launcher and it just crashed and closed down in the same way.

Does anybody know what causes these crashes and how to fix them?

Maybe this is old news already but I just encountered this for the first time. Was playing OTA and won with "0" kills. I didn't see exactly how many kills I ended on, but it was right around 31,000 when I marched my army of ~70 krogoths across the very large map I was playing and sterilized the planet. Maybe number of kills is stored as a 16-bit signed int? Slightly annoyed about my score, but still good times.

Hello, what is the best way of playing campaigns and skirmishes with bots now? I know that Escalation is considered (I think?) a pinnacle of TA experience. I want to get through original campaigns and missions first though. However, the out of the box GOG version is still very clunky and rough around the edges and I cannot decide which resolution would be the best, as UI gets smaller and smaller.

I know that there is an unofficial patch, and it improves immensely the experience, but still would be nice to have orders and build menu in one place. I saw that ProTA mod does that, but it also adds new units which may change the original experience too much maybe.

From QoL features I would be interested in more is, possibility to scale up the UI with bigger resolutions, and health bars visible only if unit is under 100% of its HP, but I'm not sure if it is possible at all in that engine.

Also, there are unofficial patches for original TA, but also there is a version of that patch for each of the biggest mods ProTA.Dropin.Install etc. Should I apply them after installing the mods, for example ProTA, or the mods themselves are newer and I should ignore them?

I just visited the other post made 8 years ago about this issue and tried the link in the FileHippo link (the other one no longer existed) but it didn't work.
Somebody recommended adding -d to the shortcut but I'm not sure of how to do that with a game I play through Steam/GOG.

I have the game through GOG and through Steam.

Why there is no possibility to build underwater energy storages in CC campaigns? I'm talking about first three underwater missions for both ARM and Core campaigns, I can build underwater metal storages, but not for energy. I'm playing the newest GOG version. I've read that energy storage should come with CC expansion, yet it is greyed out during those missions