Ironman Crashes to Desktop When Unpaused

[Valens Bellator]

Hi, I'm very much hoping someone can help me with this.

I decided to go after the recent achievements for becoming a Crusader King and forming the empire of Oultrejordain... After a couple of centuries of putting my family everywhere I finally won that Crusade for Jersusalem and was prepared to switch to that new king.

I wanted to be sure I was doing everything right to qualify for that achievement, though, so I saved and left the game paused as I read some online suggestions for how best to approach that Oultrejordain achievement.

I'm down in Florida and, even though the hurricane isn't here yet, it seemed to cause a power flicker and the computer just shut off. I didn't think much of it, but when I got back I noticed that while the game would load just fine and function, the moment I unpaused and a day passed the game would crash straight to desktop. I verified game's integrity and restarted, but nothing changes that. I've also tried to figure out what might cause it in-game, but I can't see anything out of the ordinary... I'm hesitant to make any further changes and saving over it for fear of making it worse.

I use Windows 10 and do have the dump files and save if that helps. I'd really appreciate any help if it's possible as I've sunk a silly amount of time into this game and it makes me physically ill to have it crash the literal moment before I've finished a goal heh

 

[Valens Bellator]

Actually, thinking back there is something that may have caused an issue... when I won the crusade it surprised me (we were only at like 91%) and I clicked the first popup that I got while not hitting the second as I didn't want the game to unpause. Perhaps something went wrong due to clicking one of those off without the other and without a day actually passing? I imagine they're usually intended to both be pressed or unpressed within the same save file.

 

[AndrewT]

If the save game has been corrupted by the power issue, it cannot be rescued I'm sorry - Ironman saves are encrypted and cannot be edited in any way, not even by us.

But it's possible this is a game bug instead. I suggest you post the save and dump file in the Bug Reports forum here so QA can look into it.

 

[Valens Bellator]

Ok, I've posted it there. One thing I've just noticed is that sometimes it says the game is "3.2.1 ZZCE" and others it says "3.2.1 AZCE". Is that normal?

 

[AndrewT]

The checksum is changed by one digit when you exit a game and go back to the main menu.

This is to force MP players to restart the whole game before they rejoin an MP game, which resets game memory and MP connections.