Help! What do you do when your scenario crashes with no error message?

[kfoelsch]

Any ideas?

The latest problem is that it crashes on Jan 02, 0:00, with nothing in the history file...

Is there a step by step method to troubleshoot this kind of stuff?

 

[Aetius]

Remove as mucg as possible of your scenario and start adding the files until the error occurs. Or check the events that occur on the crash date.

 

[kfoelsch]

Okay, as I said above, there is no event in the history file.

At the moment, I only have the .eug file.

Can having more than a certain value for resources, AA, forts, etc, cause a crash?

 

[kfoelsch]

After reducing the number of thingys in a province or two...

I'm crashing even earlier...!

Now it's crashing on Jan 1st at 3:00AM... what could cause a hard freeze that early? HOI locks up my machine for about two minutes or so... and then FINALLY the task manager comes back...

 

[kfoelsch]

Hmmm... I isolated the problem to the military units that I added. I was copying and pasting them from country to country because it was faster that way (with multiple countries having the same setup).

I think it's because I have multiple units sharing the same ID number...(!)

Obviously, this is probably a no-no.

Does anyone have any advice / rules on how you assign ids to land units? Or is it just best to let the scenario editor handle that for you?

 

[Hartmann]

Originally posted by kfoelsch

I think it's because I have multiple units sharing the same ID number...(!)

Obviously, this is probably a no-no.

ID conflicts are the cause of 99 per 100 crashes in custom scenarios.

Hartmann

 

[unmerged(12730)]

Does anyone have any advice / rules on how you assign ids to land units? Or is it just best to let the scenario editor handle that for you?

every country has different "type-ids" for their landunits/airunits/navalunits/divisions
So just be sure that within one country definition file there are:

1) the units of the same type
2) but of different ids!!

nighty

 

[kfoelsch]

Okay, thank you very much for the responses.

Another question though... I'm noticing another number by the "id = XXX" that reads "type = XXX". What exactly does this field do... Intuition tells me that I need to change this as well, do I?