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I'm currently playing my first successful USSR game. I DOW-ed Germany in may 1940. One year later, I have managed to annex them and am now taking out their former allies one by one and am already considering shifting forces to the East to take on Japan, although I'm probably too late to help even poor Communist China. I would really like to finish this campaign as I've managed not to cheat at all, not even using the event 1009 cheat. Ok, I did use acceptall to help myself to the remnants of the KM, but that's it. All in all, a very enjoyable game so far, but I keep getting random CTD's. Previously, my system had some stability issues, these turned out to be caused by bad memory, which I swapped out with a new stick about a week ago. Yesterday, after a crash, I ran Memtest and came up 100% fault free, so this should no longer be an issue. However, currently it's almost impossible to move on as my game keeps crashing.

Can someone at least inspect if they are having the same problems? Just loading up either one of these save games and not doing anything should result in a random CTD in at most a few minutes. Only random event I've seen firing that might be related would be a "leader death in battle" event. I think it's still just a little to early for Nationalist China to be annexed by Japan, but can't be entirely certain.
 

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The strangest thing happened later in this game. The bug disappeared for a while and I was able to play for at least several months without crashes and my game speed has increased significantly, while my save speed has decreased.

Unfortunately, I didn't like being attacked by the US for no good reason, so I went back to an earlier save game and reloaded. Now my save time still appears a lot quicker, but the crashes have returned.

It -does- appear to me that the crashes are basically related to -anything- happening. Since I can't find any reference to bug #792, can someone confirm if this is related to the saving of events? Because mostly the game crashes whenever I hear the sound indicating that something has been finished, like IC or an upgraded unit or when I have just reloaded a previous savegame and the first new entries in the game log are about to appear. If so, I really hope this gets fixed soon because for me, long savetimes and frequent crashes have reduced the enjoyability of the game to such a point that I'm mostly playing the game while watching TV or reading a book at the same time!
 
The bug numbers are for the dev team. What is causing your game to crash has not been determined yet.

Thank you for the explanation. I was hoping that a bit more was known, because it's driving me crazy to reload again and again every few minutes, but starting all over again is also not a very attractive option as the game itself is now developing the way I want it to and I can't be sure it won't happen anyway if I start from scratch...