Crashing when loading multiplayer games

[FriendlyDalek]

A friend and I have been playing multiplayer since release but over the past few days we've encountered this problem. Whenever I attempt to load a previously autosaved multiplayer game Civ crashes for me but when my friend attempts the same both of us crash.

We get one of three crashes. Sometimes the screen goes blank and we get 'Civ has stopped working.' Sometimes the game just closes down instantly returning us to the desktop. Sometimes we get a message saying that Civ had to close down 'in an unusual way.'

We thought it could be a problem with corrupted saves but we have started several new games in order to test this and it always happens. We have absolutely no trouble with starting new games, it only crashes when attempting to load a game from before.

We're a bit stumped.

Thanks.

 

[Shurdus]

Welcome to civfanatics, FriendlyDalek!

Could it be that the saved games are from previous patch versions od the game? Can you try to start a new game, save it, and load it again to see if you run into trouble then?

How is your connection with most other games? If you play a new game, does that run without unexpected issues?

 

[FriendlyDalek]

All the saves are from this patch. We've tried starting a new game, saving it and then loading it but same result.

 

[Shurdus]

Hmmm... Can you guys load a saved multilayer game with others author crashing?

 

[FriendlyDalek]

Hmmm... Can you guys load a saved multilayer game with others author crashing?

Not sure what you mean. Sorry.

If we attempt to load a game originally created/hosted by the other then both of us crash.

 

[sirRon]

Hi,

we have the same problem... 3 players - 5 AI's and every time we try to load a saved mp game, one guy crashes to desktop. We tried to start another game etc. - nothing worked. Any suggestions?

greetz sirRon