Editing save files

[Panzerschiffe]

Greetings everyone

I've been trying out CKII recently and I'm at the point where I'm interested in editing save files. I'm used to playing EUIII and Hearts of Iron so it's something I looked forward to with this game.

However, I've been doing some minor editing just to try it out and it seems like no matter what I do, when I click on my save file to play it, the game simply crashes. It's just minor edits too, like changing a province's religion, adding a trait or attribute, changing a character's culture...things like that. Nothing really game breaking...or so I thought. I googled how to edit save files and the crash thing just didn't seem present.

So my question would be, has anyone encountered this problem and is there a way to resolve it? Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks!

 

[Kaiser Ludwig]

Names and caps matter; as do the "". Keep in mind that Castillian culture is not written as such in the save game, but rather, castillan, no second i. Or Galicia is spanish_galicia. Little things like that can make the game crash...

 

[Panzerschiffe]

Don't worry, I did a ctrl+f for the different cultures, religions etc. to see how to input them in the notepad file, so this shouldn't be an issue. I wanted to make sure I wasn't inputting anything potentially erroneous. I've also used both notepad and wordpad with the same result (ie. crash). The game is on steam if that makes a difference.

Just changing a province from "orthodox" to "catholic" should be pretty straightforward...replacing text with other text, yet it still crashes. I'm not trying anything overly fancy. I just want to test small things that I can do with editing.

I've also reinstalled the game once. Not because of this specifically but I noticed it kept happening. Editing is usually so simple with paradox games so if no one seems to have ever had this problem then it must be something else, something on my end.

 

[Kaiser Ludwig]

I also have it on steam and really have not had any trouble in editing. Maybe you accidentally deleted one of the { or }

 

[Darkgamma]

I don't have it on Steam and save game editing still works =S