Clicking "Begin Your Journey" crashes the game

[darkest_inferno]

I can load everything fine but once i get into the loading screen for a game it is surprisingly fast at loading and once it gives me the option to Begin My Journey i click it and everything just freezes up and i can't do anything.

I have looked around on google looking for something that can fix the problem and most of the places say to delete unwanted autosaves and saves.

I deleted all types of save in the Civ Folder that i could find but when i checked in game, there were two autosaves that, when clicked, crashes the game instantly. I figure that those must be what is causing the game to freeze up and die but i have no idea how to get rid of them.
Help

 

[Achi]

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[Achi]

Not sure why this happens to me know, played 400+ hours without this problem. Verified cache, no luck. What's up?
Everything loads fine up until 'begin your journey'

 

[Browd]

To delete the autosaves, delete everything in your C:\Users\Home\Documents\My Games\Sid Meier's Civilization 5\Saves\single\auto folder. You might also try deleting everything in your C:\Users\Home\Documents\My Games\Sid Meier's Civilization 5\cache folder. If you have any Steam cloud saves, one or more may be corrupt, so you can try deleting (manually) any cloud saves.

 

[Browd]

Moderator Action: Merged with existing thread.

 

[timtofly]

Did you try doing a search of the file names (whole computer search)?

 

[Achi]

Still crashing. Tried the above and has not worked.

 

[Schaedel]

Same here...
Since i own BnW i got crashes after loading a mod and beginning a new game, when i click on "Begin Journey".
After some research i detdected some giant auto save files, created by the game at start of a new journey (location: moddedsaves).
After deleting these i started a new modded journey and monitored the auto save-data.
Well... After a few minutes it hits 23 GB and there was no more space on my disk...

I read about withdrawing your windows-user the write and read rights on this folder. This would work! But then there will be no more auto saves when playing a mod... So this is no option for me!

Anyone an idea?
Back at home i will compare the windows rights management of the normal auto saves folder and the mod folder. Hopefully there will appear a difference...


Schaedel


Edit: No problems with unmodded games!

 

[Schaedel]

Got a solution for the problem!
I tried what is mentioned here: http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?p=13027296#post13027296

I would recommend to rename the "cache" folder, so if civ V got a serious problem with deleting ist, you have a fallback solution.
Except of my "Mod of Ice and Fire" it works now very well. Still with this mod i got the problem... So in my opinion it looks like this mod causes the problem...

Thanks to Allein and to Browd!