Crash on game load from within game

[ignite]

First off, uploading a saved game of this won't help because this bug happens consistently with every saved game. This situation is this: after I've started a game, or loaded a game (from the main menu), and I'm within that game, if I try to load another game, the game crashes, and I get a windows error (the send info to Microsoft type). I've only tried loading auto saves, but it's possible this happens with all saved games.

Regardless, this is consistent. The game always crashes when I load an auto saved game, any of them, from within a game. These same saved games though load perfectly fine from the main menu (IE, after the game has crashed, I load Civ 5 back up and load the same file that previously crashed the game, and bingo, it works fine).

As far as I know, this has only started occurring since the latest patch, but I can't be sure of that, since I only started using auto-saves since then too. Before that I was loading quicksaves.

 

[The_J]

How is your system and the graphics settings?
It can help to turn down the settings before loading a game.

 

[ignite]

WinXp, Dual-Core 2GHz, 3GB DDR2 RAM, GeForce 8800 GTS 320MB

The game runs fine, and the problem isn't loading a game -- it's more specifically reloading a game. Actually, I've even tried exiting to the main menu and loading a game from there. It still crashes. However, if I reload Civ5 entirely, it doesn't crash. And this is regardless of how large the save is. It can be a save of a game 50 turns in, or 350 turns in. It seems like it's something to do with reloading, since loading it the first time never causes problems.

 

[The_J]

That's probably related to the problem that Firaxis has partially screwed the loading function (see here). Interesting to see that this only happens ingame.

 

[Petek]

"Crash when loading save in game" is also discussed in this thread. It seems to be system-related since I couldn't duplicate. ignite -- please load a save game that crashes and I'll try to duplicate. Also, as The_J suggested, try turning down your graphic options before loading a game.