Freeze up -- might be a bug this time

[unmerged(24980)]

I've been suffering freezes every few years now in a campaign started with 1.03b. I've tried all the usual suggestions (renaming AVI, disabling hardware acceleration, even going back to generic SVGA and bypassing the NVIDIA card altogether. I have the current drivers and version of DirectX 9.0b.) The reason why I think that this might be a bug is that it doesn't happen (at least through twenty years) on a new game started with the 1066 scenario. I understand about the corrupt save game (which I had before) with the bad ids, but it doesn't look like this is the case.

Anyone have any ideas?
thanks

 

[Grosshaus]

How long did you play before the freezes?

 

[unmerged(24980)]

Between one and three years. This happens constantly, I've been saving every couple of months now.

 

[Grosshaus]

So are did the freezes start from 1-3 years from starting the game (1067-1069) or do they happen later after X amount of years in 1-3 year intervals?

If the latter, please let us know the value of the X.

Oh, and in general, at least for me, the more frequently you save the more likely it is for the game to crash or freeze.

 

[unmerged(24980)]

The freezes started about 150 years in. (1219 from the 1066 scenario)

 

[jmschaub]

i concur. It's mid 1200's and i ctd about every 4-5 years. The autosave works so it's just a pain at this point. But i had another game with another country that worked fine. If I were to guess it might have to do with the golden horde.

 

[Grosshaus]

I'd really, really like to know if this happens to everybody and more such detail. Not being able to play to the end is a fatal bug.