Game keeps crashing

[Heilang]

I am playing as Nationalist China. My game keeps crashing in late May 1946 everytime I reload the autosave even when I reload as another country. It also happens when I pull the old autosave a month back. But it does not occur when I run the game from the manual save 2 years back. I am on 1.2 Armageddon running Windows Vista. From the crash report from windows, this is what it says:

Problem signature:
Problem Event Name: APPCRASH
Application Name: HoI2.exe
Application Version: 1.0.0.1
Application Timestamp: 47d7ebc0
Fault Module Name: HoI2.exe
Fault Module Version: 1.0.0.1
Fault Module Timestamp: 47d7ebc0
Exception Code: c0000005
Exception Offset: 0021dc52
OS Version: 6.0.6002.2.2.0.256.6
Locale ID: 1033
Additional Information 1: fa8f
Additional Information 2: e36a227eb02bac147e80c5305a15c601
Additional Information 3: 4090
Additional Information 4: a35d644dc756f5b0262d9aac94ab9d4c

 

[ztanz]

What version of the game do you have and what is your checksum? (both can be seen in the top right corner when you start the game)

 

[Heilang]

Doomsday Armageddon v 1.2(VBLV)

That's what is says in the top right corner.

 

[ztanz]

You could try the newest patch: GET-IT-HERE.

There might be an event misfiring that eventually could be fixed by an update.

Good luck!

 

[Heilang]

It seems to work insofar. Thank you!

 

[Had a dad]

Thank you very much ztanz. I don't normally show up here and your help is awesome. If there is anything you need, let me know!

 

[Heilang]

The game seems to be working perfectly insofar. However a minor bug has occurred. All of my generals' portraits dissappeared and have been replaced with the default black silhoutte. The generals are still there, names exp rank etc. But their pictures have dissappeared.

 

[ztanz]

Does this apply to all countries?

 

[Heilang]

Yes. But it only happens in my saved games. If I bring up a new game, I see faces again.

 

[ztanz]

Yes. But it only happens in my saved games. If I bring up a new game, I see faces again.

It is likely that the save is referencing pictures that have changed names. I'll take a look at a save when I get home from work.
I think you might have to live with it until you start a new game as the only way to fix is to change the references in the save file.

I'll get back to you.

leader = { 
			id = { type = 6 id = 24119 } 
			name = "Martin" 
			tag = FRA 
			[B]picture = "L24119[/B]" 
			category = general 
			rank = 2 
			y = 1930 
			y = 1939 
			y = 1944 
			y = 1990 
			max_skill = 5 
			skill = 3 
			trait = logistics_wizard 
			trait = old_guard 
			}

as I suspected, every single leader is attached to a picture, I don't know exactly what the patch does but that's the probable answer.

in \db\leaders you can find this:

Adair;1000;ENG;1942;1990;1990;1990;3;5;0;1;0;5;0;[B]L1000[/B];1942;1947;x

This is a reference to what picture should be used for the leader. The patch might have changed the name of the pictures and db.

 

[Heilang]

I looked in \gfx\interface\pics The picture names are unchanged.

 

[ztanz]

And in the \scenarios\save game\your save, do they match?