Reproducable Crash with saved game running 1.07 under Steam.

[Waffen88]

Hey all,

First off, fantastic game! This is definitely the best Paradox game I've played in a long time! Lots of great improvements of HOI and it's been pretty darn stable too, which is unfortunately unusual for Paradox games..

That said, I've run into a 100% reproducible crash with my last game, which is a bummer because I can't advance any further. The game will crash if I advance the game a day or two more or if I "surrender" and try to go back to the main menu.

I tried to attach my save file, but as the forum has a 10 meg limit and the eug file is 34 megs, it won't let me. I can slice up the file or upload it to you some other way if you'd like. I did include the eug.cfg file (renamed to .txt), but I'm not sure if that's going to be of any help to you.

This is running the 1.07 version under Steam.

If you want any other info, let me know. I'm not sure if you guys save off dmp files somewhere or not, or if you're set up to debug games wrapped with the Steam DRM layer.

I'll also try manually patching the 1.08 version and see if that helps, although it sounds like there may be some issues with doing that with the Steam version.

I'd really appreciate a work around of some sort as I've put a lot of hours into this game and was hoping to try out some of the later tech features.

Thanks much,
Waffen

 

[Waffen88]

I wanted to follow up on this:

I was able to patch to 1.08 and run the game, but this crash still occurs (both on "surrendering" and after playing a few days more).

Again, I would appreciate any work around you could give me on this.

Thanks much!

 

[Denniss]

Use winrar or 7zip for file compression and you'll see the filesize go down dramatically.

 

[Waffen88]

Good idea! Should have thought of that myself.. I've attached a compressed version for you here if y'all are interested.

Thanks much!

 

[vitality]

Does any error message pop up, or does the game simply shut down?

 

[Denniss]

I tried this save and AoD simply stopped two days later a 02 hours. This may be an event problem. Does this problem also happen with an earlier save to rule-out a corrupted save?

 

[Waffen88]

I get no popups, other than the windows reporting tool when it crashes. It doesn't always crash while running for me, sometimes it hangs as you describe. It appears to always crash when you attempt to return to the main menu though.

This problem was occurring periodically earlier, so I started saving more often; But going back to earlier games will still get the crash, the timing just won't be as predictable.

I assumed it had something to do with some randomized event because the timing varied, although the crash to desktop when "surrendering" seems to indicate something more serious than that.

Hope that helps some!
Waffen