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Rizual

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  • Crusader Kings II: Holy Fury
  • Crusader Kings II: Jade Dragon
  • Crusader Kings II: Monks and Mystics
  • Crusader Kings II: Reapers Due
  • Stellaris
  • Crusader Kings II: Conclave
  • Crusader Kings II: Horse Lords
  • Crusader Kings II: Way of Life
  • War of the Roses
  • Magicka
  • Crusader Kings II
  • Crusader Kings II: Sword of Islam
  • Crusader Kings II: Sunset Invasion
  • Crusader Kings II: Sons of Abraham
  • Crusader Kings II: The Republic
  • Crusader Kings II: Rajas of India
  • Crusader Kings II: The Old Gods
  • Crusader Kings II: Legacy of Rome
  • Crusader Kings II: Charlemagne
I wish I was joking, but my entire D drive is gone thanks to Crusader Kings 2.

Right so steps taken to get to this point:
Play CK2 fine and dandy with friends until yesterday, where I bought the last non-cosmetic expansions that I didn't own:
Abraham, Horse Lords, Conclave, Reapers Due, and Jade Dragon

The installer tells me Horse Lords had issues installing, but everything seems to be working fine? I boot up the game, with a friend, and we play for a little bit. He immediately desyncs from me, followed by him crashing. So I close down the game, followed by the game immediately crashing immediately after the state saves when I press save & quit.

This motion repeats afterwards every time I booted up the game. As fast as I S&Q, the game crashed. Something was wrong here. I try validate the files, found "nothing wrong". Go to bed.

Wake up today, uninstall and reinstall the game. Boot it up, nothing happens for like 3 minutes. Then the game crashes, twice (as in: two crash popups one after another). Then steam crashes. Then the hard drive crashes.

This is not the type of intrigue I signed up for when I got this game. Windows can't repair it, got no backups. I'm fucked.
Cheers.
 

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Win 7, and I haven't no. (I can't even see the HDD anymore. The computer lags severely after launching windows, then it hides the HDD and you can't find any trace of it even being connected outside of the BIOs)
 
so you can boot to windows, everything is fine but you can t see the hdd? try to install another os in dual booth and see if the problem is still there. it could be a software problem, if you say it appears in bios. did you pirated things or downloaded/watched ugh adult things on various websites with pop ups?
edit: did you updated windows or something? did you do something in regedit or msconfig
 
sounds like your hard drive was already dying when you installed horse lords, and finished shortly thereafter. i sincerely doubt ck2 had anything to do with it; it's just what you were playing when it happened.

this is like, "he had stomach cancer, ate a turkey sandwich, and then died. cause of death: turkey sandwich??"
 
No, I haven't pirated anything in a long time, and I heavily script block pretty much anything I enter so I have complete control over what's actually shown/downloaded, and I keep the amount of websites I visit to a curated few mostly. Haven't been on anything questionable in a while, it's not where the problem lies anyway.

Windows update, about a month a go. Nothing of note there. The literal only odd behavior in recent times has been CK2 but CK2 isn't exactly known for being very stable (Looking at you, multiplayer that you can't even fucking access if you click literally anything else among other things)

Edit to respond to grisamentum: Could be the case, yes. I'm not leaving that out as a likely possibility.

I'm not intending to lay anyone to blame for this nor do I believe anyone here can find me a fix, but should it be something on their end with the update that's gone a bit wrong that they can fix in the future should this have been a rare error with horselords, so nobody ends up in the same situation.
 
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i m saying that maybe you got a fast pop up on some website that inserted you a mini script that downloads something, runs it as an chrome procces and infect your pc with some troll things
 
Right so I figured this out myself in a way.

Basicly the HHD started malfunctioning. Not the HDD that disappeared however, but the HDD the OS was on, apparently. Had to install win 10 on that HDD instead after much trial and error, then use the old os HDD as storage for now until it fully breaks. Managed to salvage almost all my data, but gonna need to replace the HDD soon.

Can close this thread