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Yahyud

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Nov 3, 2018
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Short summary of your issue
Crashing on same date with mods since 1.5

Game Version
1.5.1

What OS are you playing on?
Windows

What platform are you using?
Steam

What DLC do you have installed?
Royal Court,

Do you have mods enabled?
Yes

Have you tried verifying your game files (Steam only)?
Yes

How much "pain" is this causing you?
8

Please explain the issue you experienced in the most condensed way possible
Since the 1.5.x update, the game crashes in a random, non-changing date, every single time, with the same error. Some mods are more liable to trigger this crash, but it happens eventually in all cases. As an example, disabling a community-updated Daddy Pika's Cheat Menu mod gave me about 10 in-game years more leeway to play without crashing, but it still happened eventually and with the same error.

I doubt this is a solely mod-caused issue as the error in the log is a memory management error, and the fact that no singular mod is responsible for this crash makes me think it is a regression in the vanilla game.

Relevant line in log: "[23:12:49][pdx_assert.cpp:584]: Assertion failed: Tried to reallocate a pre-allocated buffer"

Please explain how to reproduce the issue
Load mods. I am unaware with which mods this issue is easier to reproduce, but a heavy modlist should be a good start.

Is there anything else you think could help us identify/replicate the issue?
Enabling hugepages in tbbmalloc seemed to cause this error more often, but it still happens without.

I have attached a save game
No

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Yahyud

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Nov 3, 2018
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This may be a larger issue than mods, some other people, who say they have no mods enabled, have a very similar crashing issue to mine.

One such thread on the Steam Forum: https://steamcommunity.com/app/1158310/discussions/0/3181237058684894621/

This is definitely a base game issue. I located the mod that was causing crashes for me in one savegame (it was More Game Rules), disabling that didn't make the game crash at that point, so I started a completely new game without that mod, and that game also has this exact issue (More Game Rules is still disabled.)

FWIW, it's my characters spouse that is causing the crashes in my new savegame. Killing my characters wife solves the issue. For how long in-game years? No idea, haven't tested that. I've looked in the Object Explorer and savegame and couldn't find anything (event, modifiers etc.) that lines up to the in-game date of the crash.

Please take a look at this. This has made the game unplayable for me, and looks like many others, for 3 weeks now.

I've said this issue started with 1.5, but I think I was wrong. Games I played in 1.5 didn't have this issue. I believe it started with 1.5.1