Chancellor’s FAQ’s
In case you are wondering why we have two faqs, the other set were written by Merepatra when the site opened.
These faqs were written by one of the Firefly people for his own use. He then gave them to Stronghold Heaven as he thought they might be of use here.
General
- What are the Stronghold system requirements?
- Will Stronghold run under Windows XP?
- I want to know about future updates to Stronghold?
- Is Stronghold available on the MAC?
- Where can I download the demo version of Stronghold?
- How can I prevent fires from spreading?
- How do I rotate the screen left?
- Can an object, such as a wooden wall, be removed and replaced with a stone wall?
- My green popularity icon is solid green and has stopped moving.
- Why are people leaving my castle?
- I have loads of iron but I’m unable to build swordsmen?
- Can my Engineers drop boiling oil automatically?
- I can’t get access to my towers or turrets?
- Why can’t I place a wooden tower?
- How can I stop people from eating a certain food type?
- I’m having difficulty building my walls and seeing behind objects.
- My own troops are attacking my castle / I can’t place things in a certain area?
- Stone production is very slow?
- What do the monks do?
- Can I move my trebuchets?
- Why don’t I have cows available when trying to fire cows from catapults or trebuchets?
- Can I avoid hops weevil, apple blight, rabbit explosions, thieves stealing from the granary, etc?
- Can the ducking stool affect the witch who steals your apples?
- Can I repair the damaged stone towers?
- I have tried to put some soldiers onto a tower and then deleted the stairs to prevent the enemy going up the tower to my soldiers. If I select my soldiers and order them to go to somewhere else they come down from the tower even without stairs.
- Is there a strategy guide available?
- The computer will not siege my castle. A few macemen will be sent up, then some more, and after some of my men are killed, they just stand around and get killed themselves. After that, all of the crossbowmen will be sent up, kill all my front line men, and then stand around.
- Can I place my stockpile anywhere on the map?
- How do I get gold?
- I have decided to transfer Stronghold from my old P.C. and would like to move my ‘history’ of play so far.
- Can I take a screenshot while playing Stronghold?
- How can I destroy a tunnel once a tunneller has begun digging?
- I’d like to play the music in mp3 format. Is the music available to download?
Map Editor
- After creating a multiplayer map I try to play the map and my keep explodes.
- I created a map and the Lord never shows up.
- Why do all the animals die in the multiplayer maps?
- How do I stop the trees from growing in the map editor? / How do I pause the map editor?
- I’ve created a map but the enemy doesn’t attack me?
- My invasions don’t show up completely.
- I’m making a large map for two players. I’ve placed the blue and orange keeps, yet they are never there when I start the multi-player game?
- I built a map in free build mode and want to play the map in a multiplayer game.
Installing the patch
- Where can I download the patch from?
- After installing the patch my text is in a foreign language but my speech is still correct.
- Will the foreign patch work for my version of the game?
Troubleshooting
- While playing mission 13 (the snakes mission), the mission crashed.
- While playing a multiplayer game the connection reconnects constantly.
- My text is showing up incorrectly or is in the wrong places in the game?
- My sound is jerky / cutting out while information is loaded into the game.
- The sound is very bad; it’s echoing and distorted. This applies to both the music and speech. (Only applies to users with GeForce2 MX graphics card)
- My installation stopped at a certain percentage and when the autorun program appears it always says PLAY.
- I get an error message saying “Stronghold has caused an illegal error. If this persists, please restart your computer” (using a GeForce 3 video card)
- While installing, the installer requests: disk 0 – data3.cab and/or stops at a certain percentage.
- When I play Stronghold the only time my cursor is shown is when I am moving it.
- The in-game character animations play for only a few moments and then stop, while the sound goes on. The cut-scenes where Lord Woolsack and others converse with each other seem to have this problem as well. Other animations (fletcher, bakery etc.) seem to function flawlessly.
- I receive the following error message, while installing: “The InstallShield Engine [iKernel.exe] could not be launched. Error loading type library/DLL.”
- After installing Stronghold I click on play but my game does not run.
- While playing mission 21 the mission crashed.
- Stronghold keeps crashing. I have a Sound Blaster Audigy Sound card. I’m using Windows XP and the latest version of Stronghold.
Multiplayer
- Why do all the animals die in the multiplayer maps?
- While playing a multiplayer game the connection reconnects constantly.
- Is there no way to actually load an autosave and/or manual save from a multiplayer game?
- Is there an easy way to scroll through players?
- Which ports do I need to open to play Stronghold through a firewall/router?
- I created a multiplayer map but my friend can’t see it?
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