Charlemagne crashing during gameplay

[St4rkad]

Hi!
I have been playing Charlemagne for some time now. however in the last 2 weeks or so the game has started to crash during gameplay. usually after 30 to 60 minutes after startup/loadup.
the screen freezes and the sound stops and after a while the game vloses with the message "CK2" has stopped working"
whats wrong ?

sincerely
Mads

 

[AndrewT]

Have you noticed any of the threads talking about the Norse Unit Pack problem? Do you have that DLC?

 

[RicoDevega]

I've been having a similar problem, but norse unit packs did not fix it for me. I activated all DLC I own (which is most of them) to see if that would fix it, which it did. I'm going to now try activating the DLC in groups, and then individually until I can pinpoint what else might be causing this problem. Here's my save file, but to put it simply I'm a Scandinavian Republic in 842, in the middle of a war with most of Britain. It always crashes around July.

Again, I've managed to resolve this issue by activating ALL DLC, but activating norse alone did shit all.

http://www.filedropper.com/scandinavia8420817

 

[Dracko81]

Norse, Saxon, Celtic and Warriors of the faith.

I concentrate on Celtic and Saxon though. Although Norse seems to correct issues for some people.

 

[RicoDevega]

First test with all content DLC (sunset invasion, old gods etc.) + Unit Packs. Got past the normal crash time.

Second test without African, Byzantine and Celtic unit packs, but all other unit packs I own still active. Still works

Third test without above mentioned + Europa converter, customization pack and military orders unit pack. Still works

Fourth test without any unit packs, just content DLC. Still works

Fifth test again without any unit packs, just content DLC, this time making sure I do exactly the same stuff I did last time (namely win my war with pictland). Okay NOW it crashes

This implies it is indeed someone raising an army. I'm the only norse in the game, with the exception of a tiny count in the middle of norway. I don't have to actually win my war with pictland, destroying their army and then the army of Galloway seems to be enough.

Sixth test activating warriors of faith unit pack. (I only had 3 unit packs left, norse russian and warriors of faith). Crashes

Seventh test, deactivating warriors and activating norse again. Works


Okay so that was odd, definitely didn't work with norse activated before, but now it does. I'm going to run it without norse again up to the start of the fight in galloway, and then see if I can reproduce the crash within a few days of it normally happening.

Eighth test, deactivating norse and running until I find the crash. Save created within a day or two of when the crash should happen.

Ninth test, activated all DLC except norse and ran from crash test save, it didn't crash. Deactivating all DLC again and testing crash test save (probably should have done this first). Crashes exactly 1 day after the save.

10th test, loading from crash test again with just norse activated. Crashed on the 30th (save is 23rd I think)

11th test from crash test with just celts active. Works.


Save dump (should crash within a few days of loading)
http://www.filedropper.com/scandinaviacrashtest


tl;dr: I had inconsistencies with getting specific DLC to make it work. I mainly play in ireland, scotland and denmark, so it's quite possible it's celtic unit pack too. The last time it was crashing badly was when I was just finishing with ireland and declared war on all of england and scotland, but I don't think I have a relevant save to test what was going on there.

 

[St4rkad]

ok I'll go through all those actions when I find the time.
So as I understand it. there is a possibillity that I can't play the game with certain DLC's which I bought. With Money ?

 

[St4rkad]

by the way, I do have the Norse Unit Pack.

 

[AndrewT]

ok I'll go through all those actions when I find the time.
So as I understand it. there is a possibillity that I can't play the game with certain DLC's which I bought. With Money ?

Quite the opposite - it's the lack of certain DLCs that triggers this crash.

by the way, I do have the Norse Unit Pack.

As you can see in post #4 above, it's beginning to look like other DLCs are involved also.

 

[St4rkad]

yes
Ill try the RicoDeVega approach later.
thnk you for answering

 

[RicoDevega]

Essentially if you have the unit DLC, turn it on (I had mine turned off because last time I played multiplayer it was a cause for desyncs). If you don't, don't buy it just so the game will work. No company should ever expect you to spend money to fix their game, and Paradox is no exception. They'll fix it eventually as they always do.
In the meantime, where are you mainly playing? I think the reason this is normally a problem with norse is because norse are almost always at war, and are thus more likely to raise an army the game can't handle without the DLC... but as evidence from my tests and from what dracko was saying there are other areas that have problems. If you don't have the celtic unit packs, for example, I'd avoid getting involved in Great Britain, just because players tend to cause a lot of war. Alternatively, if you do make sure to save before you start a war, and to be sure you'll be fine keep your wars short and focused.


Keep in mind this is just me guessing at what the problem is based on my bit of testing there. Also, if you're determined to buy the DLC a lot of it is 50% off on steam at the moment, but will likely go on a deeper discount later in the sale, so again it's just generally better to wait.

 

[St4rkad]

thank you Devega.
I mainly play as one of the Danish counts. but maybe it's time to try something completly different

 

[St4rkad]

correction
I play as one of the noblemen from the "Skjöldung" dynasty. they predate Denmark as a nation, as far as I remember