CiV is crashing (after modding)

[lordsurya08]

A few minutes into gameplay. the game just crashes Windows says "Sid Meier's Civilization V has stopped working...Windows is checking for a solution to the problem." A few seconds later the whole game closes. I can not play at all for more than 2 minutes at the most.
This has been happening since yesterday, when I went into the Global Defines to change the unhappiness penalties. I did not change anything else, and I am sure I did not mess up any formatting. As a precaution, I saved the original global defines xml file on my desktop. What should I do?

EDIT: This happens as soon as I hit next turn. I can leave the game on the turn that I loaded for hours and it works.

 

[theGoatRider]

Well, obviously the first thing to do is restore the original .xml file and see if that fixes it. If that doesn't do it, perhaps a re-install is in order.

 

[jomorisin]

it must be the change you made - i have been running into this with mods. once i disable them i am able to play again.

 

[lordsurya08]

bad news...somehow I screwed up while keeping a copy of the original, and now I don't have all the numbers - especially the unhappiness per occupied population, which was some random decimal.
Can you copy and paste your Global Defines?
Here's how to get there: Go to Steam folder (under program files x86 or just search in search bar) -> steamapps -> common -> sid meier's civilization 5 -> Assets -> Gameplay -> XML -> Global Defines. Double click to open it in Internet Explorer, then copy and paste the section called "Growth and Happiness" into your post.
I will be forever grateful,
lord

 

[The_J]

Just delete your own, and verify the file integrity via steam, it will download the file again .