Reign of the Ancients: Bugs & Crashes

[Wizzington]

This thread is for bugs and crashes in Reign of the Ancients.

If you encounter a non-crash bug, post the following information in this thread:
1) A description of the bug.
2) Whether you are playing single or multiplayer.
3) What country you (and if mp, any other human players) are playing.

If you encounter a crash, send an email to m.anward (at) live (dot) se title "ROA Crash Bug" and containing:
1) All the regular bug information (description of the crash, country you were playing, multiplayer or not, etc)
2) The game log, found in the /logs folder of your Europa Universalis: Rome installation. Note that you must immediately save this file to another folder upon crashing, as starting up Rome again will overwrite all your log files.
3) The save game you were playing.
Make sure to zip or rar the savegame and log

 

[Dagda]

Sent my Macedon game.

re-sent

 

[Wizzington]

Haven't recieved anything, if you didn't zip it my mail might have rejected it due to size.

 

[Wizzington]

I got a save game from someone playing the Achaean League and experiencing a crash. I tracked the crash down to an issue where multiple barbarian stacks are sieging the same (low population) province. When they win the siege, the first stack takes it over, then the second stack empties the province out, and the game crashes.

Unfortunately since this an engine problem I can't solve the crash, but I can make it far more unlikely to happen by preventing barbarians from spawning in a province under siege.

 

[abadgaem]

Got the save, thanks a lot!

 

[Wizzington]

The Macedonian save has the same issue. I'm curious as to why these barbarian problems are suddenly cropping up - I haven't done anything to increase barbarian spawns.

Has anyone else noticed more barbarians appearing with 1.15?

 

[Trajan72]

Hi. The army of the Allobroges is them no war in the area of the Ambarri although with each other have. Could something be postadjusted there?

 

[Wizzington]

Looks like a positioning error... I'll fix it for 1.16

 

[Trajan72]

Near the province Umbria it behaves similarly. There the unity also stands more or less in the no man's land.

 

[Antiochus_Soter]

I am trying to run this mod on my Windows 7 operating system. I have no problem running the Rome Gold regular game. When I try to launch the mod from the Rome.exe launcher, during the initial gamne loading screens, at the point where it says "Creating the World" it crashes and displays a messagebox on the screen saying:

Failed to create graphics device.
Exiting.

Any ideas what the problem might be?

Additional Information
When I originally installed the Rome Gold game, during the installation process it attempted to install the .Net framework 2.0. It failed to do this, I think it said that it is incomptible with Windows 7 or something. But the game ran fine. I am not sure whether or not this has anything to do with why the mod isn't working but I figured I would give as much info as possible.

 

[Wizzington]

I'm afraid I have no idea what might cause that problem Antiochus. I'd try a reinstall.

 

[Antiochus_Soter]

Do you mean install EU again? Or your mod?

 

[Wizzington]

EU: Rome

 

[Lofman]

As you have Windows 7 remember to not install in the Program folder, the OS is from what I have read rather picky of what can be done there which occassionaly can cause problems with some games. Rather install as C:\Games\etc. or similar.

 

[Antiochus_Soter]

OK, thanks Lofman. I might try that. Also perhaps it would help if I install the latest patch. Is it the one called 2.32?

 

[Wizzington]

Yeah, you definitely won't be able to play RoA without 2.32

 

[Antiochus_Soter]

OH ok, well in that case maybe that is what the problem is. So I will try that first before re-installing the whole game.

Maybe you should mention that the 2.32 patch is required in the first post introducing the mod. It is not obvious to newbies such as myself that the latest patch would be needed, or that a patch update even exists.

 

[Wizzington]

Will do.

 

[Antiochus_Soter]

Ahh, just found out that Direct2Drive.com (the company I got the game from) do not have the 2.32 patch. They do have the 2.2 patch available. Will that work? Or do I need the 2.32?

 

[Wizzington]

No dice, you'll have all sorts of defines problems with 2.2. Direct2Drive are kind of crap in general when it comes to patches, best to get the game on GamersGate.