From dcd4e62fed90bde68c295e04f12decdd219304c4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: xezon <4720891+xezon@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2025 19:28:41 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] bugfix(asciistring): Fix thread unsafe reference counting of
 AsciiString

---
 GeneralsMD/Code/Main/WinMain.cpp | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/GeneralsMD/Code/Main/WinMain.cpp b/GeneralsMD/Code/Main/WinMain.cpp
index a600d90618b..55ed50d744d 100644
--- a/GeneralsMD/Code/Main/WinMain.cpp
+++ b/GeneralsMD/Code/Main/WinMain.cpp
@@ -774,6 +774,7 @@ Int APIENTRY WinMain( HINSTANCE hInstance, HINSTANCE hPrevInstance,
 		// default in a DevStudio project
 		//
 
+		TheAsciiStringCriticalSection = &critSec1;
 		TheUnicodeStringCriticalSection = &critSec2;
 		TheDmaCriticalSection = &critSec3;
 		TheMemoryPoolCriticalSection = &critSec4;