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Repeated CtD's destroyed both my autosaves

Well, basically I was playing as Duchy of Apulia (now King of much) and then the games CtD'ed while autosaving.
This is quite normal (or rather, it has happened quite a few times before). But when I tried to reload the autosave I got the message 'Database mismatch'.
This has never happened before. Normally it would work, or there would be no dynasties to choose between when clicking on the autosave.

Well, no worries, I figured - I'll just use the old autosave. That worked fine until it had to autosave again where it CtD'ed just like last time.
When I tried to reload both autosaves turned up the message that there was a database mismatch.
Neither save works.

So, is there a way to save my saves? Or are they lost?
Is this a known problem? Will it be corrected? Or what?
 
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What happened was this: when the game autosaves it renames "autosave.eug" (corrupted for you) to "oldautosave.eug" it then tried to make a new "autosave.eug" which got corrupted as well.

I have had the game crash when autosaving a couple of times. I attribute it to a heat stressed CPU (hardware related). To keep from loosing my game, after I reload the backup autosave file, I immediatly save the game using a different filename. That way, even if the autosave gets borked I have a backup.

As a seperate issue, I have never had my game crash twice consecutively on the same autosave. Either your computer was experiencing some problems, or your game had gotten into a state that caused the CTD.

Either way I am guessing your game is totally lost now, with no way to email a mod the savegame for testing :( (unless they want to see the corrupt autosave).
 
CaBhaal said:
Either way I am guessing your game is totally lost now, with no way to email a mod the savegame for testing :(
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Nope :(

CTD bug needs to be reproducible, and a save available for the moderators to transmit to Paradox.

I am sorry for your game, :(

I mark this one as WON'T FIX, because we CAN'T FIX it... :(

Cat
 
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