Help! CTD when loading...

[Norgesvenn]

I have encountered a serious problem when playing as Denmark with the EEP 1.1 (EU II 1.05). My savegame goes CTD when "Reading scenario". I don't know why... I haven't fiddled with the files or anything.

I'm writing an AAR, and this is a serious onion in the ointment.

Anyone able to help?

 

[unmerged(5664)]

Just because someone has to ask:

Did you load EU2 by going through the gold icon on your desktop?

 

[Norgesvenn]

Ahem... yes. I did. And I'm worried.

 

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what year are you in?

 

[Norgesvenn]

The 1490s. I just had some random explorer event. And the game loads fine from 1486. Odd.

 

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I have the same problem, except I'm playing with England in the 1620's. I noticed my alliance with Sweden and Eire never expired, everytime I'd check on the date it'd say exactly 10 years after the current date.
So I thought I'd just edit the alliance out, but no such luck. When I try to load the save-game it crashes at the 'Reading Scenario' text... all of the savegames, including the autosave and oldautosave - so now my glorious english bastards are unplayable and I'm left cursing and thinking somewhat evil thoughts about this excellent game. Oh, I have 1.05 and EEP1.01

 

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Originally posted by Norgesvenn
The 1490s. I just had some random explorer event. And the game loads fine from 1486. Odd.

can you reload from 1486, play to the same date, save and re-load?

 

[Norgesvenn]

Yes, Crook, I can play from 1486, and then save. But the savegame crashes upon loading. It's *really* odd. I've never encountered something like this. Checked the save files, and noticed no oddities in the "selectables" nor any other strange things.

 

[Cadmus]

check if la rochelle appears twice in the save game file.

 

[unmerged(6771)]

Yay!

That fixed it! Now the world shall tremble before my square-head puritans! Thanks a bunch!

 

[Norgesvenn]

Originally posted by Cadmus
check if la rochelle appears twice in the save game file.

Province 418?

Well, it's only owned by France, it appears. And my savegames have appeared just fine before. Three attempts at playing again after 1485 have given me more savegames that are rotten, unfortunately. And the autosaves don't work either.

Okay... I'll have to ask: I notice that the tradeposts that I have settled in NA all have the "Nye Skåne" etc. names, and not the names specified for Denmark in the colonynames.csv that I added (before the crashes appeared).

I get no error messages or anything. Just a plain CTD.

 

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i cant load my burgund game....

VERY disturbing cos i where about to annex france...

Well well....

it just crashes.... hmm....

What if i enter through the black icon instead?

 

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i belive this is major bug....


hmmm...

 

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Originally posted by Norgesvenn

Province 418?

it appears twice in owned and controlled fields for both countries. Check that. but I personally never had a problem with a corrupt savegame.

Okay... I'll have to ask: I notice that the tradeposts that I have settled in NA all have the "Nye Skåne" etc. names, and not the names specified for Denmark in the colonynames.csv that I added (before the crashes appeared).

I get no error messages or anything. Just a plain CTD.

how did you edit the file?

 

[Norgesvenn]

I edited in Notepad, so I doubt that's the problem.

I simply entered more names along with the two or three already there for Denmark in the form:
DAN;<colonyname>

 

[Norgesvenn]

Originally posted by Anckarström
Yay!

That fixed it! Now the world shall tremble before my square-head puritans! Thanks a bunch!

Could you tell me how you did it? I still seem to do something wrong...

 

[Holmesy]

i have had this problem quite a bit. I checked my save file for the Province 418 thing but england doesn't have it, so i asume its now only in there once

 

[Pwyll]

This is not an EEP only thing...I get the exact thing happening from a scenario that I Mod.

 

[Alyosha]

I have the same crash in 1650 with Byzantium (fantasy scen). I checked the file for the duplicate 418, but that was fine. Made sure the selectable was okay and it still crashes. It might be another duplicate somewhere but I'm very reluctant to go through all that type.

 

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There is a problem with duplicated records for Province 418 (Poitou) in the EEP. These cause CTDs after England annexes France.

I have spent some days working with Johnny Cannuck to look at this and think we have found the answer. See thread called CTD as England.

Most of these problems sound very similar, but I don't know details of what is happening in your games.

I never had any problems loading savegames during my testing, but then England always owned and controlled Poitou. It was only when annexing France things went wrong.

Maybe if someone else (France/other) gets to control or own Poitou this causes problems in savegame loading.

I think that you need to check in your savegame file that 418 is only an "ownedprovince" for one country, also only a "controlledprovince" for one country. Also, important that the city in 418 only appears in one country.

Maybe this will help, maybe not. Some/all of these problems might have different causes. Could be worth a try though.

Happy to discuss individual cases if you want to.