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I have a problem with my current Grand Campaign game. I decided to learn the game by playing the minor Pskov and am not overly bad at this point. I'm now in the year 1683 with Russia slowly being consumed by me and my allies. I even have some oversea colonies in North America. But the game will not get through 1683 without crashing to the desktop. I've reloaded and attempted again and it happens every time but not always at the same point in the year. The last time I attempted to get through it the whole system locked up and required a hard boot (a size 12 to the side of the chassis). I've even reloaded from January 1, 1683 and put the speed at 1 minute = 2 years and have done nothing but watch to see what happens and it still crashes. Is there any way to get a debug log or something to see what is causing this? I'd hate to have to abandon this game at this point because I'm really interested in seeing how this turns out. BTW I'm running the U.S. version 1.07c.
 
I am having similiar problems with the campaign game. Playing as Russia I have gotten to 1683 more or less.

(It was originally 1682 but I've retried multiple times and gotten a year further a few months at a time.)

The game crashes during that year continously. Beyond that, I have noticed that it causes my computer to horribly lag now. My comp is:

Compaq Presario (ya I know they suck, but it was cheap)
450 Mhz AMD K6 II processor (overclocked to 500 Mhz)
88 Megs of SRAM
30X CD-ROM
Generic Soundcard and Video Card(both came with the comp)
Windows 98
DirectX 8

Dominus
 
Originally posted by Dominus
I am having similiar problems with the campaign game. Playing as Russia I have gotten to 1683 more or less.

(It was originally 1682 but I've retried multiple times and gotten a year further a few months at a time.)
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I continued experimenting with my game as well. I slowed it down to 1 minute = 1 month and saved at the end of each month that it didn't crash in. I was able to get to the beginning of 1684, and I'm going to see how far I can get. I'm kicking Russia's butt! I can't quit now!
 
Heerrrmm. I reinstalled the game... Whyyou ask. No idea... and replaced my saved game back into the right directory. Now I've made it to about 1694 without a crash. The game still lags horribly (only in this save no where else), but it has not crashed. This makes ummm, for lack of a better thing to say, no sense. Why would simply reinstalling the game allow me to play further????

Oh ya, I did scan disk and found no bad clusters, so it shouldn't be anything like that.

Dominus
 
Plantagenet, Dominus:

Are you two involved in a war during your crash problems? I am asking because I have a theory that the game is much more likely to crash when you are at war. On my machine I have only crashed during war, never when at peace. Perhaps one of the combat calculations is throwing an error (overflow, divide by zero, etc.).

Just a theory…
 
Originally posted by Paladin
Plantagenet, Dominus:

Are you two involved in a war during your crash problems? I am asking because I have a theory that the game is much more likely to crash when you are at war. On my machine I have only crashed during war, never when at peace. Perhaps one of the combat calculations is throwing an error (overflow, divide by zero, etc.).

Just a theory…
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I was in a war when I first experienced the crash. But then I loaded the save, didn't declare war this time, and let the game run at the fastest speed. It still crashed before the year was out.
 
I can't remember if I was in a war the first time the crash occured, but since then I know that it doesn't always happen during a war for me. Most often is when I working on creating new colonies and strengthening their infrastructure.

Dominus
 
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