phungus420
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Basically the main thing I want to know is, is there a way to track to the cause of a mid game crash? If I know where to look usually I can fix it.
I've just been tweaking my game, adding units and what not. Anyway, I had some weird hanging end turn "crash" before that plagued me, but it was corrected by the 3.13 patch. Not sure what was causing it, but the patch fixed it. Anway, I've played 3 games so far with no problems. But now (and I haven't changed a thing!) it crashes everytime around the industrial age. And this is a crash, the globe icon disapears, game freezes up for a few minutes, Screen goes black, then the little window message pops up telling me that the program needs to close. I have absolutely no idea what is causing this. I've played 3 full games with no further modifications made, and now it suddenly does this. After getting through the second game, I over wrote all my old backups, so I can't go back (except to the core game--I guess I could just delete all my custom assets changes and start over from scratch). So yeah, is there anyway to track down what is causeing the crash? I'm hoping there is some way to figure out where this crash is coming from, and why it didn't affect me in 3 games, and now happens every time
Also I'd be happy to upload, or explain or show the XML changes I've made, if that'd help, however I don't think they alone will. The main thing I'd really like to know is what is causing this, since all units seem to be working properly (definatly tested each of them to see if they could be built, uprgraded moved around, etc). Oh, and two weird things I've noticed since patching, The button for the spearman is changed, but not in the World builder (how is that possible?), and also sometimes at random the War elephant button for some civ wol't be recognized for some reason, it's just a black box, I have no idea what could cause this, since when I noticed it I ran a few test games and it works usualy, but like 5% of the time it is just a black box (and even stranger, it's not a pink box, like I'd expect), rather then displaying the button, and it only effects a single civ when this happens, but it's not consistant about which civ this happens to, and the civ can queue and build War elephants fine.... Anyway that's all I can think of, hope someone out there can help out.
I've just been tweaking my game, adding units and what not. Anyway, I had some weird hanging end turn "crash" before that plagued me, but it was corrected by the 3.13 patch. Not sure what was causing it, but the patch fixed it. Anway, I've played 3 games so far with no problems. But now (and I haven't changed a thing!) it crashes everytime around the industrial age. And this is a crash, the globe icon disapears, game freezes up for a few minutes, Screen goes black, then the little window message pops up telling me that the program needs to close. I have absolutely no idea what is causing this. I've played 3 full games with no further modifications made, and now it suddenly does this. After getting through the second game, I over wrote all my old backups, so I can't go back (except to the core game--I guess I could just delete all my custom assets changes and start over from scratch). So yeah, is there anyway to track down what is causeing the crash? I'm hoping there is some way to figure out where this crash is coming from, and why it didn't affect me in 3 games, and now happens every time
Also I'd be happy to upload, or explain or show the XML changes I've made, if that'd help, however I don't think they alone will. The main thing I'd really like to know is what is causing this, since all units seem to be working properly (definatly tested each of them to see if they could be built, uprgraded moved around, etc). Oh, and two weird things I've noticed since patching, The button for the spearman is changed, but not in the World builder (how is that possible?), and also sometimes at random the War elephant button for some civ wol't be recognized for some reason, it's just a black box, I have no idea what could cause this, since when I noticed it I ran a few test games and it works usualy, but like 5% of the time it is just a black box (and even stranger, it's not a pink box, like I'd expect), rather then displaying the button, and it only effects a single civ when this happens, but it's not consistant about which civ this happens to, and the civ can queue and build War elephants fine.... Anyway that's all I can think of, hope someone out there can help out.
