BUG: FIXED in 1.06: The day the Earth stood still.

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The day the Earth stood still.

I'm playing a GC as Novgorod in 1.05, and on February 2, 1471 the clock stops.
The animations continue, I can even invite someone into an alliance; but if I hit f10 the whole thing crashes and I have to ctrl-alt-del to get out.

Anyway, this is what Windows has to say about the crash if I c-a-d with the clock stopped, but without hitting f10...

EU2 caused an invalid page fault in
module EU2.EXE at 0257:0041a629.
Registers:
EAX=00000000 CS=0257 EIP=0041a629 EFLGS=00010246
EBX=00000000 SS=025f ESP=00b3eca8 EBP=00b3edc0
ECX=04b17590 DS=025f ESI=04b17590 FS=31a7
EDX=005dbe74 ES=025f EDI=00000002 GS=0000
Bytes at CS:EIP:
88 58 24 a1 98 d5 63 00 57 8b f9 89 58 08 89 58
Stack dump:
04b17590 82e73970 0041990e 82e7500c 005ab1b7 00000001 00002dc7 73062dcf 1dd60000 0d470000 0000fbca 0000d276 8d1b06b7 057f00e3 2dc70000 2dcf0000

I hope this is some help.

 

[unmerged(5367)]

dont you think this should be posted in FORUM:

message_forums/EU2/bug_reports ?

 

[unmerged(7024)]

I thought I had posted this here. It seems I was a bit more tired than I thought. Sorry, y'all.

 

[viper37]

I have no clue... I would suspect an hardware problem, like memory perhaps...

 

[unmerged(7024)]

Anything's possible; but how can it crash the clock (but nothing else) in 32 days? I reloaded the game three times on Jan 1, on Feb 2 it crashes. No fuss, no muss, no events get posted. Time just stops.

 

[viper37]

Try these steps, and post your complete config

http://www.europa-universalis.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=5781

 

[AndrewT]

Yuri?

 

[unmerged(7147)]

I have been having the same problem with 1.05 at home. Never seen it before. On my first GC, this happened several times around 1580 or so. I tried saving right before the "hang" date and was able to continue on, but this kept occuring so I decided to start a new GC. In that game, I got stuck at Feb 2, 1703 and was unable to get past it. I also got several clock stoppages that I was able to save and restore past. When I brought the saved game into work, it worked fine.

Here is my config info:

Intel P2-400, 256MB RAM
Asus Intel i740 Video card AGP (8MB?)
Diamond Monster 3D (Voodoo 2)
Windows 98
Not sure about the sound card, doesn't work anyway.

I will double-check this when I get home tonight. If you need driver info or anything else, let me know.

In My Darkest Hour

 

[viper37]

Originally posted by Slayer
I have been having the same problem with 1.05 at home. Never seen it before. On my first GC, this happened several times around 1580 or so. I tried saving right before the "hang" date and was able to continue on, but this kept occuring so I decided to start a new GC. In that game, I got stuck at Feb 2, 1703 and was unable to get past it. I also got several clock stoppages that I was able to save and restore past. When I brought the saved game into work, it worked fine.

Here is my config info:

Intel P2-400, 256MB RAM
Asus Intel i740 Video card AGP (8MB?)
Diamond Monster 3D (Voodoo 2)
Windows 98
Not sure about the sound card, doesn't work anyway.

I will double-check this when I get home tonight. If you need driver info or anything else, let me know.

make sure you have the latest drivers installed, sometime it could be just that, a faulty video or sound drivers bugging the rest. If you can, update the motherboard BIOS and the drivers (probably on Intel site for chipset drivers)

In My Darkest Hour

Ah, a connaisseur!

 

[unmerged(5367)]

Now i have the "February the 2:nd" -Bug. For me that year is 1699. Really annoying..

I tried to play Spain over the critical time, doesent help..

 

[AndrewT]

Again I swear this was reported not that long ago, I got a save showing it but I can't find the post ... however I believe the Feb 2 connection is new, the previous instance happened at different times and didn't always actually happen.

Yuri, Slayer and The Camel: I'd like a save showing this from all three of you please, if possible. As always zip up the .eug and .eug.cfg files and email to me at ataubman@ducros.com.au . Thx.

 

[AndrewT]

Never mind. Johan has diagnosed and fixed this problem for next release. It was caused by sending infinite merchants in certain circumstances. There is an way to edit savegame to avoid this... Go through and increase the tradetech on anyone below tradetech 3.