During game play when i try to enter the world builder the game crashes. does anyone know why it does this? I am playing on the Beyond the Sword edition, and i edited the xml files a bit.

man I'm having the same problem, it was working at first but now everytime I try to enter worldbuilder my game crashes.

is there an error message?

Same problem here. I actually entered Worldbuilder at the beginning of the game with no problems. Now I'm trying to enter it about 20 turns in, and it keeps crashing. It says it encounters a problem, and needs to close. The details of the error report are:

AppName:civ4beyondsword.exe
AppVer:3.1.3.1
ModName:CVgamecoredll.dll
ModVer:3.1.7.0
offset:0011790b

Yup I get the similar message to thatoneguy 2008.

I also can access the world builder at the beginning but Once I get into the game for about 30-40 turns it crashes when I try to access worldbuilder.

I decided to continue on without getting into world builder, and the game crashed again anyway about 10 turns later. I'm playing the tectonics, mediteranian map, which is new with the latest patch. I'm also playing with the Civgold mod, and I also had problems (not the same ones) with total war mod, with mediteranian. Is there something about this map type maybe that is messed up?

hey thatoneguy 2008, you maybe up to something, I will too keep on playing. Hopefully I will get a crash, that way I can at least find the source of my problem. I am using a mod too.

Gobles, I just thought of something else. I had Atlantis as a civ in civgold mod,and I know that the system crashes when you try to build the Atlantis version of the Maoi status. I'm wondering if the AI atlantis tried to build it that turn, and crashed it. I'm trying another game with atlantis deleted from civgold.

Hey you what, maybe that could be the cause. In my mod I have civs with customs units / art. Perhaps one of them is causing the problem. I will check.

I'm confused now, so after I kept playing I was sure I was going to get a crash but now I've reach Guilds / Maceman and NOW I can enter world builder without any problems.

EDIT: sadly my game crashes again when entereing WB.

please enable logging in the game by opening the civilizationIV.ini in
my games\beyond the sword\
and changing all items with log in their name from 0 to 1 and save that file.
then start and crash a game. Post all contents of
my games\beyond the sword\logs
as a zip file here.
you can attach files to a post by clicking on go advanced and then on manage attachments :)

Yes, I've noticed I get a PythonErr2 in my logs;

I've attached the file.

could you post all the log files please?

sure, Here they are.

:hmm:
this is weird for a few reasons:
1) it does not contain all the log files that should be there - you did set all 4 items with "log" in their name to 1 right?
2) it says you have loaded a mod called "WAR" - is that right? try without...

1. Yes I only found those 4 files under BTS log folder
2. I'm running a mod called WAR - so do you think it's pretty safe to say the mod is the cause right?

does this occur without the mod? that would be the best test. Its just usually advisable to test whether the core game has a problem prior to troubleshooting a modded game :)

To be honest I haven't tried yet without the mod. I've had this mod in BTS 3.13 and I've never had any problems. Ever since I updated my mod to be compatible to 3.17 it started crashing.

I've continued playing my game and I've noticed that sometimes I can enter WorldBuilder without any problems but then when a leader tries to contact me the game crashes. Also when I want to change Civics, the game crashes.

I will try to play a game without the mod to see what happens. BTW thanks for your replies ori.