Crrrrrash!

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Hi! I have a Strategy first Victoria, v 1.03,(irrelevant for the sloution of the problem, have tried it with every version) Windows xp, AMD 1ghz(irrelevant, tried it on three different computers, two with intel proccessors), 512mb of ram (irrelevant again), the tech support forum returns an invalid link. I've read all of the stickies and all of the threads containing the word crash but still haven't found the solution.

The problem: I'm playing the grand campaign as China. In the year 1895 the game starts to crash. It crashes irregularly, but about 50 times a year if save and reload the game about every 10 days. I guess it has to be an event that crashes it because the event sound starts when the game crashes(mind you, it lasts about a fifth of a second). I've made quite a large proggress, so I REALLY want to solve the problem. Any ideas?


PLEASE HELP!!!

 

[Castellon]

Well if you are sure it is not hardware related why post in the tech support forum?
Let's move you to the Bug forum since you are so sure.
*Moved

 

[tyrel68]

Try and cut/paste the China event log to a temp file but leave the empty file since you will get an error if you delete it. See if that solves the issue...and then you would know it is an event issue and can track it down.

 

[Derek Pullem]

Hi! I have a Strategy first Victoria, v 1.03,(irrelevant for the sloution of the problem, have tried it with every version) Windows xp, AMD 1ghz(irrelevant, tried it on three different computers, two with intel proccessors), 512mb of ram (irrelevant again), the tech support forum returns an invalid link. I've read all of the stickies and all of the threads containing the word crash but still haven't found the solution.

The problem: I'm playing the grand campaign as China. In the year 1895 the game starts to crash. It crashes irregularly, but about 50 times a year if save and reload the game about every 10 days. I guess it has to be an event that crashes it because the event sound starts when the game crashes(mind you, it lasts about a fifth of a second). I've made quite a large proggress, so I REALLY want to solve the problem. Any ideas?


PLEASE HELP!!!

Zip it up (the save) and send it to me (victoria dot bugs at btinternet dot com) by 2300 GMT on Sunday and I'll try and fix it if I can - otherwise it will have to wait a week as i'm on holiday.

OPtherwise - are you civilised yet? Are you doing anything or have done anything shortly before crash.

Do you use cheats

Have you modified the game beyond patching with the official patches.

Have you started this game with 1.01 and carried on with 1.02 and 1.03?

 

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Derek Pullem: sorry, only saw your post this morning.

I see what the problem is now, i've looked into history.txt and the problem is such: Russia and UK are in a colonial war and the British are destroying the Russians. The crash occurs when peace is made between them and UK gets a LOT of land(i don't really know if that's important, just thought i'd stress it). So, how could I get around that?

 

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Same Here ((

Derek Pullem: sorry, only saw your post this morning.

I see what the problem is now, i've looked into history.txt and the problem is such: Russia and UK are in a colonial war and the British are destroying the Russians. The crash occurs when peace is made between them and UK gets a LOT of land(i don't really know if that's important, just thought i'd stress it). So, how could I get around that?

Playing France, I have had the same problem: UK went with Crimean War (while I refused - I was too busy with Austria in Italy), then they accepted peace with Russia taking a lot of land, and after a while (sometimes immediately after accepting peace, sometimes after a month or so) the game crashes. The actual amount of land taken may slightly differ (I've tried to replay from a save before this peace), but it changes nothing...

Vic 1.03, English version, Normal/Normal