Been having trouble trying to play this game and it's counterpart.
Tried a lot of the "fixes" but most have broken links or seem to be for an older version telling me to look for files that simply don't exist. For example .gdp files.

One thing I noted though is that this version actually creates a proper dump file for an unhandled exception unlike the first game in the series. Problem is I have only a vague idea of what I'm looking at and therefore have no idea what a fix action would be for this. It reads as follows:

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-== Log category : Unhandled exception info
-== Build : Hard Truck Apocalypse: Rise of Clans release build v1.01 (Dec 19 2006 13:03:49)
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-== Minidump could not be written, GetLastError = 2147942408
-== Exception : 0x80000003 at address 0x005D52BE
-== Exception type : BREAKPOINT
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1: 09/07/21 01:49:37
1: Physical memory = 2047 MB
1: Total memory = 4095 MB
1: Physical memory available = 2047 MB
1: Total virtual memory = 2047 MB
1: Total virtual memory available = 15 MB
1: Page file available = 4095 MB

1: Data from MemoryManager:
1: mem used: 151114434
1: mem allocated: 198013527
1: mem overhead: 18070740
1: last allocation: 65504


1: 0 address: 0x5d52be, RegisterGlobalTestingNatives +1858766 bytes
1: Decl: void __fastcall RegisterGlobalTestingNatives(void)
1: Mod: Meridian113, base: 00400000h


Registers:
CS:EIP 0x0023:005D52BE
SS:ESP 0x002B:03C0C0F0
DS:EDI 0x002B:00000000
ES:ESI 0x002B:03E76498
EAX 00000000
EBX 0000FFE0
ECX 03E76400
EDX 002AD000

I have little idea of what exactly went wrong here, other than it almost looks like it can't get any virtual memory for some strange reason as if its all being used up. This als olooks strange to me as my computer has 16 Gigs of ram. Usually it has about 55-65% of that free and yet it looks like 4 Gigs is all it sees. I assume that is just some arbitrary limit the game has.

There is also a proper game log file. But I have found that to be difficult and troubling because it shows a bunch of errors loading various files that it cannot find and I have no idea which, if any of them, are the true reason for the crash.