ck2game.pdb removed since M&M?

[yemmlie101]

Hey! So while working on the ck2generator (http://ck2generator.com/) a HUGELY helpful thing for debugging crashes was the ck2game.pdb (I just checked and it was in 2.6.1 but has been removed at some point since) - instead of a completely contextless CTD, it allowed me to run Visual Studio and see the callstack of any crashes, and there was usually enough information there with what function it crashed in, along with watch values, to instantly explain the cause of the crash in my mod output and allow me to fix it.

I'm in the situation now, have been for days, where the game crashes without fail and am totally at a loss at this point what could be causing it. Is there any chance of getting this added to a future patch again as its probably the most useful thing for debugging modding in the world, especially in my case where I'm procedurally generating the mods and thus have many ways particular generations could be invalid and crash the game that I haven't hand coded myself, including mods generated by the users of my tool.

Thanks!

 

[Magnus Helvetti]

I still have it in my Steam directory.

 

[yemmlie101]

Not here, I went back to 2.6.1 and it appeared, went back to the live version and it disappeared again so definitely not in the current steam build. I can only assume it's somehow stuck around in your directory despite the update and is likely a pdb for an older exe.

 

[Magnus Helvetti]

Yeah, it says the pbd is from 2016, but the exe is the 2.7.0.2 one.

 

[Hummel400]

bump, hope someone can help you yemmlie

 

[Icedragon333]

Additional bump. I like the CKII History Generator, and would very much like the project to survive.

I would assume that tbb.pdb, tbbmalloc.pdb and tbbmalloc_proxy.pdb are not the correct files?
Or perhaps it is removed until the patch is out of beta and changes finalized?

I would hope the latter.

 

[Tyr Alexander]

Bump.
Cause CK2Gen is epic and awesome and I want to see more of it going forward....

 

[ARADPLAUG]

Bump.
CK2Gen is a great project and it can't die now

 

[Anonymous01]

@yemmlie101 you should direct this issue to Meneth or or whichever paradox staffer is responsible for modding.

 

[Falendor]

My favorite mod. Looking forward to all the culture and relegen stuff in next version.
I hope PDOX can fix this.

 

[ngppgn]

@Divine Any chance you could look into the OP's question?

 

[monsterfurby]

Another bump. This is such a brilliant tool/mod, I really hope the pdb was only removed by accident.

 

[Daxxom]

@Divine Bumping for more awareness. It would be so wonderful if you could look into this, It would allow CK:II to be even more repayable in the future.

 

[IronPlated]

Gotta bump this. For the short time in which I used it, I loved CK2Gen. Hopefully Paradox will fix this

 

[Magnus Helvetti]

I thought the devs watched the forum. Or at least The Captain.

 

[blackninja9939]

The Captain has been on leave for ages now, Divine is the CK2 mod coordinator at the moment and I am pretty sure most of the team is on an easter break anyway so you are unlikely to get many responses from people.

 

[LordAnubis]

I was really looking forward to the improvements you showed off to your mod, hopefully you get what you need back.

 

[Magnus Helvetti]

The Captain has been on leave for ages now, Divine is the CK2 mod coordinator at the moment and I am pretty sure most of the team is on an easter break anyway so you are unlikely to get many responses from people.

Damn people with their holidays!

 

[Sindai]

The fact a .pdb for the main executable was ever included in any release of the game was probably the mistake here, not the fact that it's gone now. Generally no game (or commercial software of any kind) ships with debugging files precisely because they don't want people to be able to debug their code - it makes it much easier to reverse engineer. For example, in my entire steam apps folder CK2 is the only game that has any .pdb files.

That said, since Paradox doesn't use any copy protection they might be a special case. It's worth asking, but I expect it won't happen.

 

[lg133296]

The Captain has been on leave for ages now, Divine is the CK2 mod coordinator at the moment and I am pretty sure most of the team is on an easter break anyway so you are unlikely to get many responses from people.

Jesus Christ... How many breaks do Swedes have?