[Windows 10] Game crash on save load

[DrogNra]

Yesterday I was running an Ironman (so no mods) as Malaya, today, since the hotfix, I went to load the game and it simply crashes when I hit "continue". If I go into Single Player and select the game or the backup, same thing (as it tries to load the map).
If I select earlier Ironman saves from that patch they seem fine, the second I click on the most recent save - insta-crash, "would you like to submit a crash report" before I even get to hit play.

New games - no problem.


Any suggestions... or any way for me to roll back the patch? I would be really gutted to end there with no closure!

Best regards,
Droggy

Spoiler: Exception report

Application: EUIV
Version: EU4 v1.29.2.0 Manchu.206991c240
Date/Time: 2019-10-29 18:30:08

Unhandled exception C0000005 (EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION) at address 0x00007FF6886C9144

Stack Trace:
1 eu4.exe (function-name not available) (+ 0)
2 eu4.exe (function-name not available) (+ 0)
3 eu4.exe (function-name not available) (+ 0)
4 eu4.exe (function-name not available) (+ 0)
5 eu4.exe (function-name not available) (+ 0)
6 eu4.exe (function-name not available) (+ 0)
7 eu4.exe (function-name not available) (+ 0)
8 eu4.exe (function-name not available) (+ 0)
9 eu4.exe (function-name not available) (+ 0)
10 eu4.exe (function-name not available) (+ 0)
11 eu4.exe (function-name not available) (+ 0)
12 eu4.exe (function-name not available) (+ 0)
13 eu4.exe (function-name not available) (+ 0)
14 eu4.exe (function-name not available) (+ 0)
15 eu4.exe (function-name not available) (+ 0)
16 eu4.exe (function-name not available) (+ 0)
17 eu4.exe (function-name not available) (+ 0)
18 eu4.exe (function-name not available) (+ 0)
19 eu4.exe PHYSFS_writeSLE32 (+ 547058)
20 eu4.exe PHYSFS_writeSLE32 (+ 143031)
21 KERNEL32.DLL BaseThreadInitThunk (+ 20)
22 ntdll.dll RtlUserThreadStart (+ 33)
23 ntdll.dll RtlUserThreadStart (+ 33)

 

[AndrewT]

Previous patches are available in the Steam Betas tab for this game.

 

[DrogNra]

That only covers major updates, the last patch I can see on the Beta list is a 1.28 and that isn't compatable with the saves (I have tried).

 

[AndrewT]

Yesterday I was running an Ironman (so no mods) as Malaya, today, since the hotfix, I went to load the game and it simply crashes when I hit "continue".

Sorry, what hotfix do you mean? There have been no game updates since 1.29.2 on 2 October, 4 weeks ago.

 

[DrogNra]

Aw pants, I somehow read the hotfix as having happened yesterday, probably projecting my desire for something to blame...
So that means the save just suddenly went bad

 

[AndrewT]

Sorry about that then! Feel free to post the affected save in Bug Reports, perhaps they can see what happened to it.