Eek! Scrolling lines of red text! Help!

[Kaoru Nagisa]

So, I was playing Deus Vult today - with the October beta-patch so kindly provided by Johann, and the DVIP that talented members of this community contributed - and I was doin' pretty well! As Barcelona, I'd managed to capture a couple of southern-Islamic territories, and I'd been sitting on them a while, taking appropriate actions to encourage cultural conversion.

All of the sudden, a loud 'Beep!' shattered my concentration, and an error message appeared on the screen! "Unhandled Exception", it read, and listed a hex offset that, I've no doubt, resides in some irksomely-arcane part of the CK .exe. "See the log file", it said, and then my game shut down. I couldn't make heads nor tails of the logfile, so I just reloaded the game and kept playing.

I kept getting unhandled exceptions, though, which is a serious bummer. I've finally managed to pin them down to cultural/religious conversion events, since I started testing, trying to trigger likely province events myself, and those're the ones that caused the crashes. So, uh...what's going on, here?
I've posted the log file below, for your convenience. I'm using DV patched to its latest, installed over a fully-patched CK, and playing in windowed mode using the WINDOW argument. Is there any way to stop the baleful lines of red?
Thanks in advance!
~Kaoru

######## EXCEPTION: 0xC0000094 at address: 0x00415685: INT DIVIDE BY ZERO 
03/17/09 02:19:46


######## EXCEPTION: 0xC0000005 at address: 0x0058E412: ACCESS VIOLATION  read attempt to address 0x00000008 
03/21/09 07:51:34


######## EXCEPTION: 0xC0000005 at address: 0x0048C2C6: ACCESS VIOLATION  read attempt to address 0x000000FC 
03/21/09 08:00:09
SymGetLineFromAddr(): GetLastError = 126
SymGetLineFromAddr(): GetLastError = 126


######## EXCEPTION: 0xC0000005 at address: 0x005B12FD: ACCESS VIOLATION  read attempt to address 0x00000010 
03/21/09 08:10:44
SymGetLineFromAddr(): GetLastError = 126
SymGetLineFromAddr(): GetLastError = 126

 

[Veldmaarschalk]

I kept getting unhandled exceptions, though, which is a serious bummer. I've finally managed to pin them down to cultural/religious conversion events, since I started testing, trying to trigger likely province events myself, and those're the ones that caused the crashes. So, uh...what's going on, here?

You can't 'manually' fire 'province to province'-events, like the cultural conversion event. This will crash your game.

So the simpliest solution is to not manually trigger them and you won't get those crashes.

 

[Kaoru Nagisa]

You can't 'manually' fire 'province to province'-events, like the cultural conversion event. This will crash your game.

So the simpliest solution is to not manually trigger them and you won't get those crashes.

As I mentioned, the crashes started before I started manually triggering the events - the triggering is what I did to try and narrow down what was happening, but, eh. It seems to have dried up, anyhow. Thanks for the quick response! ...Just realized, this should've been in the tech support forum. I'm bad at pickin' the right forum when I'm experiencing random crashes, eh-heh... Anyhow, take care.
~Kaoru

 

[Veldmaarschalk]

As I mentioned, the crashes started before I started manually triggering the events - the triggering is what I did to try and narrow down what was happening, but, eh. It seems to have dried up, anyhow. Thanks for the quick response! ...Just realized, this should've been in the tech support forum. I'm bad at pickin' the right forum when I'm experiencing random crashes, eh-heh... Anyhow, take care.
~Kaoru

If you have crashes when using the latest beta-patch in an unmodded game, then you can report them here.