Can't use mods, they ALL crash

[xsinx]

For some reason my CIV5 is alergic to mods. I bought the game the day it came out and I had quite a bit of crashing back then playing regular games but patches eventually took care of it and now the game is very stable for me, I haven't had a crash in a very long time.

I recently started toying with mods and I now get very frequent (random) crashes. It will often happen after a good while, not immediatly after starting. I can't really link it to any particular event in the game. I haven't been able to finish a mod game yet. I have tried several different mods to make sure it wasn't a problem with a specific mod.

Also, I simply cannot load a saved "mod" game. They always crash my game before I can start playing.

 

[cabbista]

I have the same problem.

 

[cabbista]

I have the same problem.

I get a runtime error and it crashes

 

[Sjru]

Perhaps you have stumbled upon a corrupted Civ5 install?.

Maybe the game intalls the mods in the wrong place?
Have you considered checking your files and/or reinstalling the game?
Are you sure it's related to mods and not to the game instability (I,e crash walls)?
What kind of mod you're using?
Are you using just that mod or a combo of many mods?
Cheers,

 

[xsinx]

Perhaps you have stumbled upon a corrupted Civ5 install?.

Maybe the game intalls the mods in the wrong place?
Have you considered checking your files and/or reinstalling the game?
Are you sure it's related to mods and not to the game instability (I,e crash walls)?
What kind of mod you're using?
Are you using just that mod or a combo of many mods?

Hello. About a corrupt install, I don't know but I found several people (here in this thread but elsewhere as well) that have the same issue with mods so it looks like a fairly common bug. Regular games have no issue at all now (I used to have similar crashes when the game came out).

The mods are where they should be, nothing out of place there as far as I can tell. This is my mods folder structure:

MODS
├──Beyond the future (v 1)
├──Clash of the Civilizations (v 2)
├──Hukkak Revised Extra Civs Pack (v 4)
└──Simple Spacebar Mod (v 1)

I have no way of knowing if it's a crash wall or not since NONE of the modded saved games can be loaded without crashing. The crash do occur between rounds so I guess it could be. Then again, normal games do not have this issue.

I have tried everyone of these mods on their own and they all exhibit the crash. Ignore the spacebar mod though, I haven't tried it alone and even when I do include it in my games, it has no effect for some reason.

I'm running the game on Windows 7 64 bit if it changes anything.

 

[Sjru]

Hmm, as long as you don't have conflicting mods activated at once it should be fine.
Have you tried clearing your cache folder? It has been reported that sometimes the cache get corrupted somehow. Else try clearing your .ini configs, one doesn't know if there is something itchy on those .ini's.

 

[cabbista]

Is it possible to use too many mods? I have a lot selected but it did work before, hmmmm.

 

[Sjru]

That must be it, you have activated mod that conflict which each other. Bigger mods (Those 3 you have) make big changes to the game that cause conflicts. Check to have just one of them at the time. The last is probably a minor change, so it shouldn't make problem, (but nonetheless, if that mod doesn't work is just using memory).

 

[cabbista]

It is possible to have too many running. I dropped a few (a lot) and now it's working fine. Nevermind, now it's doing it again.

 

[cabbista]

.Check for steam updates. I had a ATI driver update that was manual update, I have AMD cores. I will let you guys know how/if it works tomorrow.

 

[cabbista]

So far so good. It only crashes if I have to much stuff open along with the game.