CTD upon second autosave

[Guancyto]

Having done a clean reinstall (so clean it asked me my language preferences and whether or not I wanted to do the tutorial), I am still experiencing this problem.

The first autosave goes fine, and in fact is much quicker than autosaves in previous versions. However, in the second year, the game always crashes to desktop during autosave.

I can load from the first autosave, now correctly named oldautosave.ck2, without issue. However, there is no longer an autosave.ck2, and if I load oldautosave.ck2, the crash will always happen with the next autosave.

I have tried this with several different games in different time periods, and it is the same - the first year of another game will autosave without issue.

The second year of a new game will correctly turn oldautosave.ck2 (year one of the first game) into olderautosave.ck2, and will turn autosave.ck2 (year one of the second game) into oldautosave.ck2, however, upon attempting to create autosave.ck2 (year two of the first or second games), Crusader Kings 2 will always crash to desktop.

 

[AndrewT]

Are there any mods involved?

Does it matter if you are doing local or cloud saves? Compressed or not?

What antivirus app do you use? Add ck2game.exe to its exceptions list/whitelist.

 

[Guancyto]

All mods were deleted and unsubscribed to in the clean reinstall.

Saves are uncompressed and local.

Making an exception in Windows Defender for both the savefiles directory and the CK2 directory got me one more year, at which point there were the proper complement of autosave.ck2, oldautosave.ck2 and olderautosave.ck2.

However, the next year, I had another CTD on autosave, and there is once again no autosave.ck2

Edit: The .dmp file for the crash was properly created this time, however, if you would like it.

Edit edit: Compressed cloud saves work fine, until two years later, when both Crusader Kings 2 and Steam both crash.

 

[AndrewT]

Edit: The .dmp file for the crash was properly created this time, however, if you would like it.

I cannot read dumps, but you are welcome to make a new thread in Bug Reports and attach or link the dump there for QA to look into. I rather doubt this is a game bug though.

The fact that changing the WD settings made a difference tends to confirm that is the problem. If the Controlled Folder Access feature is enabled, you also need to add ck2game.exe to the "Apps Allowed Through" list of that feature.

You might also consider going to cloud saves as they get written to a different local location before being synced up to Steam.

 

[Guancyto]

I have made an error, and its name is Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc!

I did a more thorough job of testing. At some point in the first few years, the mouseover text of counties turns to utter gibberish. Any attempt at saving after this happens, whether manual save or autosave, whether compressed or no, local or cloud, antivirus exception or no, results in a CTD.

Screenshot is as follows:

 

[AndrewT]

DXDIAG is a program you run from a command prompt or the Windows start menu 'run' dialog box (or 'search programs' in Windows 7 or later). After running it will open a window and start collecting info with a progress bar in the lower-left corner. When it completes click the 'save all information' button and save it to a file then attach that file here.

Please attach your Documents/Paradox/CK2/settings.txt.
From your Documents/Paradox/CK2/logs/ folder, attach system.log .


Please report the temperatures of your CPU and video (GPU)
1/ before starting the game up and
2/ after say 10 minutes' play.
If your PC's vendor has given you no way of reading temperatures, install
SPEEDFAN http://www.almico.com/sfdownload.php