Modded some dynasty/character info's, now save games won't load/CTD

[Diemaco]

I wanted to make my own dynasty and found some helpful threads on how to do that, so I started editing stuff in the different .txt files. It all seemed to come together and I got the dynasty I wanted with the CoA I wanted. I started playing and that worked, but a few years into the game I discovered I couldn't load any save files from that game. The game freezes or crashes to desktop.
I tried loading older files where I still played without having changed anything and I could still load and play those.
Naturally I had backups of all the files, so I went and replaced everything, but the problem remains. Even when I play with a standard dynasty and save, then try to load it crashes/freezes.
I have the steam version if that's any help.

Any help would be much appreciated as I can't play at all currently.

Thanks!

 

[Diemaco]

OK, so I reinstalled the game, that makes it work again. But I again tried making the changes, which went a lot faster now since I knew better what I was doing; same problem. I can play just fine but when I want to load a save it bails on me.

 

[AndrewT]

Never ever mod your original installation, instead copy the CK2 directories elsewhere and mod that copy. Note you should also point the copy's user files elsewhere using the technique detailed in the "file locations" sticky thread above.

For advice on what you are doing wrong, post in the User Mods forum please.