Single Player bugs and crashes v36 plus (SVN) - After the 24th of October 2015

Harrier said:

Above posted when using SVN 9291. Now using SVN 9315, still does not get to the next turn on my XP system. I do get extra prompts regarding criminal units before it CTDs.

Will try again, after a few more updates. More often than not when you fix someone elses CTDs - it also fixes mine.

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Noriad2 said:

SVN 9265. This is a game I played a few weeks ago (see attached save game, just hit enter). I move my doomstack towards enemy territory and place it on a tile with 50% defense bonus. The next turn, the AI attacks me with its own combat stack, and it is a disaster for the AI. He loses almost 100 units, I lose not a single unit. Also, his support units (like battering rams) now lost their escorts, allowing me to kill another 50 or so units the next turn, again without losses on my side.

Basically the AI handed me a massive victory on a silver platter. A defeat of such a size cannot be explained by mere bad luck. So what happened?

1) Is there a miscalculation? or
2) Does the AI just walk along predetermined paths and didn't notice my stack standing in the way? Or
3) does the AI just go RAAH ME SMASH ENEMIEZ without bothering to calculate whether it is going to be a victory?

I have tested this save twice. The AI attacked both times, with the same disastrous result both times.

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Yeah, I have no idea why the Great Doctor was wandering around with a hunter stack either. Maybe because it has the Health Care Unit combat class? Anyway, if this is actually something that's desired by others, perhaps a change to its priorities should be considered, if possible. Specifically, I think actual combat stacks, notably the primary stack-of-doom, should have a much higher priority on Great Generals if the AI is at war. If the AI is at peace, sending GGs along with hunters makes sense to build experience, but not during war.

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Thunderbrd said:

We may have some differing options. If that's the case then it becomes important to identify the differences.

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alberts2 said:

What happens if you click Continue instead of Ignore?

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First-chance exception at 0x76cfc41f in Civ4BeyondSword.exe: Microsoft C++ exception: xercesc_3_1::NumberFormatException at memory location 0x0018b248..

First-chance exception at 0x76cfc41f in Civ4BeyondSword.exe: Microsoft C++ exception: [rethrow] at memory location 0x00000000..

Assert Failed

File:  CvArtFileMgr.cpp
Line:  101
SVN-Rev:  9313
Expression:  false
Message:  ArtInfo: 'ART_DEF_BUILDING_CULTURE_AFRICAN' was not found

Assert Failed

File:  CvArtFileMgr.cpp
Line:  101
SVN-Rev:  9313
Expression:  false
Message:  ArtInfo: 'ERROR' was not found

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Unhandled exception at 0x05233141 (CvGameCoreDLL.dll) in Civ4BeyondSword.exe: 0xC0000005: Access violation reading location 0x00000194.

Thunderbrd said:

So far, an endless cycle of exceptions continue. They all basically say this but the 0x# changes each time:

Code:

First-chance exception at 0x76cfc41f in Civ4BeyondSword.exe: Microsoft C++ exception: xercesc_3_1::NumberFormatException at memory location 0x0018b248..

At this point the debug dll won't complete loading even if the debugger isn't attached.

If I ignore a few times I get to this point:

Code:

First-chance exception at 0x76cfc41f in Civ4BeyondSword.exe: Microsoft C++ exception: [rethrow] at memory location 0x00000000..

If I continue from there it says 'Something Happened' after a red x and the whole thing crashes.

Taking out all those <KFM/> lines and reloading then leads to another string of first chance exception errors that leads to an Error:
"XML parsing SAX error:
Assets\xml\Art\CIV4ArtDefines_Building.xml:
element'Button' is not allowed for content model
'(Type,LSystem,bAnimated,fScale,fInterfaceScale,NIF,KFM,Button)'
at line 389"

Referring to that line, it's:
<Button>,Art/Interface/Buttons/Buildings/Factory.dds,Art/Interface/Buttons/Beyond_the_Sword_Atlas.dds,7,8</Button>
Which doesn't seem off so far as I can tell. Maybe something IS wrong with this somehow.
This, btw, refers to this type:
<Type>ART_DEF_BUILDING_INDUSTRIAL_PARK</Type>

I then get another error:
LoadXML call failed for xml\Art\CIV4ArtDefines_Building.xml

At that point it's pretty much the domino is tipped. Due to this xml file failing to load, it's all downhill from there.



So then I checked the exceptions and my C++ exceptions block is checked. Removing that I still hit the problem with the Industrial Park and that art define file fails to load but then it goes on if I ignore it.

It reaches the same eventual point, the following assert:

Code:

Assert Failed

File:  CvArtFileMgr.cpp
Line:  101
SVN-Rev:  9313
Expression:  false
Message:  ArtInfo: 'ART_DEF_BUILDING_CULTURE_AFRICAN' was not found

Ignoring that, I get:

Code:

Assert Failed

File:  CvArtFileMgr.cpp
Line:  101
SVN-Rev:  9313
Expression:  false
Message:  ArtInfo: 'ERROR' was not found

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THEN, finally:

Code:

Unhandled exception at 0x05233141 (CvGameCoreDLL.dll) in Civ4BeyondSword.exe: 0xC0000005: Access violation reading location 0x00000194.

The oddest thing I can tell from this is that it's confusing why the game is loading fine with the final release version, which it is. Obviously, there is a very real problem with the building art file. Particularly the Industrial Park button if I'm guessing.

EDIT: I noticed after updating that someone had edited the art defines file but that now just means it goes directly to the Button error and then collapses as explained from there.

EDIT: NVM, I figured out I just have to revert to the building art define xml as DH had left it last.

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Thunderbrd said:

Thanks Alberts!

Now that we have a new forum, I wish there was an option to highlight certain responses in a 'favorites' file or something. That's a great point for longterm reference.

Wait... there IS! The 'like' option could be used for that. (Though I haven't been able to figure out how to find a list of the posts you liked.)

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