Ubiquitous crash late in game problem - possible codependant variable?

[ottomaton]

running v. 1.2

I was having significant problems with crashes around 1943ish. After restarting & reloading from the autosave several times, I noticed that after each crash, the autosave had progressed 1 month. My autosave settings (naturally) were set at every 1 month. Coincidence?

I just reconfigured to 10 months. Suprise, after 10 months, a crash. I'm going to go into the folder and clean out any save files I'm not using, and see if that helps.

I used to do desktop support & am fairly conciencous. I'm fairly sure I've turned off any services or apps that could cause issue, and I have no hardware problems. Event viewer returns the following:

Faulting application hoi2.exe, version 1.0.0.1, faulting module hoi2.exe, version 1.0.0.1, fault address 0x001825f9.

As stated I am running 1.2 but assume that the app version is an event viewer oversight.

It's playable, but if anybody has feedback, I'd be interested. I have installed a couple of mods, the no-time limit & stony road graphics, so hopefuly that's not the issue.

 

[unmerged(37633)]

Same Same here!

I just now had the same thing happen to me!

Just hammered Turkey, Para dropped into Alexandria, Was holding my own in West Aftrica, I normally save after each conquest, but then my axis non-normal allies like Spain suddenly lose all of their assignments, or at least the ones that directly affect the computers position.

Tonight I did not and just as Manstein was turning the corner toward Iraq and Damascus, WHAM!

The computer locks up and then I got the same error message you described.

This has happened before even in the Vanilla versions of HOI2. I know the game has a very serious memory management problem, it likes to take and destroy units at random, but this crashing at critical moment, mainly when you're braking it down hard, is just plain irritating.

I think the Paradox folks need to seriously port this game into a Windows-like environment and take advantage of the RAM and Virtual RAM abilities. This is too much of a problem to ignore. I have seen others complaining about how the game responds, but narry have I seen or heard Paradox even entertain any resoponse about the issue.

Heh, reminds me of M$, but thats another issue altogether....

 

[Castellon]

@ Nick2000, each person that has a problem should start their own thread and not hijack someone elses. Even members that get the same error message may not share the same underlining cause.

@ottomaton, We cannot and do not support user made mods.

 

[ottomaton]

I probably appreciate that more than you know, but I was hoping that you could at least comment on whether you've seen a similar problem with other users or even at least suggest I uninstall and reinstall without the patches.

I don't mean this disrespectfuly, but while I would never suggest you support someone elses work, if I buy a car and have an after market radio installed and the car's radiator is faulty, I generally don't expect the radio to invalidate the waranty for the radiator, if that makes sense? Again, I'm not trying to be confrontational, only explaning why I thought to post without isolating the mods as a potential problem.

In any case, I will uninstall, reinstall, apply (official) patches, and see if the issue is resolved.

 

[Castellon]

More like you take out the factory radio and install an after market one then complain when the stock speakers get blown out.

Since I have no idea what those mods change or how they change it THere is no way I can comment on a problem you have with that altered program. Pretty straight forward really.

 

[jpd]

Hehe. Nice analogy, but I've got a much better fitting one for you:

Instead of the after sales fitting of a third party radio, see the installation of a user made mod as the after sales fitting of a third party climate control in your car. That hooks into all sorts of mechanical and electrical control systems of your car (including your radiator), and you will loose the warranty on your orignal system, if anything gets screwed up by a faulty airco unit or a faulty fitting by a third party mechanic.

That's how deep a user made mod can hook into the engine of hoi 2. In your case, it's pretty evident that the (auto)save routine is causing a crash. That simple fact leads to the inescapable conclusion that the save routine, while it is collecting everying that needs to be put into the save file, encounters something it wasn't designed for to encounter. Most likely your mod contains something illegal.

Uninstall the mod (not needed if the mod only contains modded pictures or sprites), start an new, fresh game and try again. If it still crashes during saving on a plain vanilla hoi 2 installation, then submit a bug report as per instructions.

Jan Peter

 

[jpd]

I think the Paradox folks need to seriously port this game into a Windows-like environment and take advantage of the RAM and Virtual RAM abilities. This is too much of a problem to ignore. I have seen others complaining about how the game responds, but narry have I seen or heard Paradox even entertain any resoponse about the issue.

That's just a plain silly statement. All Paradox games a true and full blown Windows applications, as you very well know. The games take full use of every resource your Windows installation makes available, which includes DirectX, video driver, sound driver, network card driver, TCP/IP services, virtual memory and more.

Virtual memory is transparantly controlled through the OS, and if the application of virtual memory is causing problems on your system, then there is something fishy with your Windows installation. You cannot blaim paradox for that.

Jan Peter

 

[Castellon]

What he said.