Damn all this crashing!

[Erthaelion]

Finally I have figured out how to enjoy this game, and I was actually having fun for the first time since I bought this game playing as the Ptolemaios (or was it Egypt...). But just after i finished smacking the Seleucids and recovered from a Civil War, my game crashed. It has done this several times now, but this is the worst. I dont think I can bring myself to replay those 30-40 years or however long it was. Is there any way to prevent these crashes? They really are crippling.

 

[Vandermere]

Yeah, I was having the same problem with crashes. I was desperate to play the game more though so I downloaded the latest beta and I haven't had one crash start to finish

 

[Cheexsta]

I strongly suggest you start using the Autosave feature, if your game is crashing like this. Having the latest patches also helps - even the beta patch is incredibly stable, so you can try that.

If you find your game crashing regularly, it may be a good idea to keep track of the exact situation in which you are having problems. This will help the tech support team figure out what's wrong and guide you through some fixes.

Also, if you want to use the Greek for "Ptolemies", then it should be "Ptolemaioi"

 

[Emperor Leo]

I imagine that the crashing was caused by the "no_culture" bug. This put an irritating end to a lot of my Rome games, but as Cheexsta says, remember to save on a regular basis. I use Autosave for every year and I also manual save before any major in-game venture so I can go back to important "checkpoints" if the game (or my PC) was to fail.

 

[unmerged(177685)]

I have suffered horrendous crashes. They seem to get worse the later in the game I get (650 onwards). I now have my autosave set to never and manually autosave around once a year. If I am playing in a period with high activity such as war/civil war I save every 2-3 months or as a major event occurs ie death of ruler, appointment of governor. It feels like I am forever saving but at least this way I am fairly well covered for sudden crashes and rarely lose anything too important.

When I had autosave set to yearly, I think it was that that was causing the crash. Would get to Dec 31st each year, then freeze.

The first two games I played froze half way through and I couldnt complete them. Since adopting manual saving, I played a game right through from 474 to 731, and have taken my fourth game to 695 without a bad problem.

 

[Erthaelion]

The autosave is brutal. It was the cause of most of my earlier crashes. I disabled it, and for a while things were fine, but just as I invaded Caria to attack the last bit of the civil war in Asia Minor, it crashed. I dont understand it. I have also tried the patch beta once, but it somehow just wrecked my game, I couldnt even start it. I had to reinstall.

 

[Cheexsta]

Regarding autosave crashes, I have found this sometimes happens when there are too many savegames in your folder. It mostly happens to me when I'm running mods and is hard to replicate, so I never posted it in the bugreports forum...

 

[AndrewT]

As the others say, check the crashing save game file for the NoCultureGroup bug, as detailed here.

But if you also get crashes on autosave that's something else. Please run DXDIAG, Save All Info, and post dxdiag.txt here (first delete everything after the Sound Devices section so it will fit). Also post your Rome/settings.txt and Rome/logs/system.log files. Note that if you use Vista or Win7 and have installed the game in the suggested folder c:\Program Files\Paradox Interactive\Rome\, the active versions of these last two files will have been redirected by Vista to a non-system directory, like c:\users\[name]\appdata\local\virtualstore\Program Files\Paradox Interactive\Rome\. You may have to search your C: drive for them.

 

[Erthaelion]

Im pretty sure this has nothing to do with no_culture, though there is a chance. Some stupid province revolted, but I ignored it. I doubt it was the problem. The crash happened when I landed troops on a province. The other crashes occur over autosaves.

 

[AndrewT]

Well it would take only a few minutes to check the problem save game file for the NoCultureGroup bug.

I won't be able to help you with your autosave problem without the files I mentioned.

 

[Erthaelion]

How do I use DXDIAG?

 

[AndrewT]

Click on your Windows START button, Run, and type DXDIAG in there and OK it. When that program finishes loading (it may take a few minutes) click on Save All Info and it writes the file out to dxdiag.txt .

 

[Erthaelion]

Mine didnt do anything.

 

[AndrewT]

Your what didn't do anything? Are you saying you can't even get DXDIAG to run? What exactly happens please?

 

[unmerged(152202)]

I imagine that the crashing was caused by the "no_culture" bug. This put an irritating end to a lot of my Rome games, but as Cheexsta says, remember to save on a regular basis. I use Autosave for every year and I also manual save before any major in-game venture so I can go back to important "checkpoints" if the game (or my PC) was to fail.

I doubt it since he said about 30 years.. that's a long time and might just have been a normal crash.

30 years and no save is odd.



you should save everytime before a war.