Game crashes before Dawn of Man load screen

[Nagol Strache]

Hey, with the mod tools finally out I've been wanting to make some mods for Civ VI. I'm having a weird issue where the game will crash right before the Dawn of Man load screen when I try to start a game with my mod civilization. I have tried deciphering the many different logs in the games files, but I can't seem to find any reason there for the crash. I even removed pieces of my code at a time and tested to see if that was the cause, but no answers there either.

I'm hoping you guys know what's going wrong, because I have absolutely no clue. I used the civilization and leader template from the modbuddy if that helps in any way.

 

[Human Crouton]

I have this same issue quite a lot. I know that it is caused by the way the dds files are referred to in other files, and sometimes maybe even the dds file itself being rejected for some reason.

Even if I do not change the default kitty dds' that come with the template, I still get the issue if I change the name of the leader in certain places. This error persists even if I change the leader name back to JASPER_KITTY.

I have gotten it to load past the dawn of man screen, but it's so unreliable that I can't exactly tell you how to get it to work. I'm just letting you know that it has to do with loading the dds files in case you want to fool around with it.

Hopefully, someone more knowledgeable can show up and tell us more about this, because it's stopping me from modding as well.

 

[Nagol Strache]

Yeah I know what you mean Human Crouton, I almost gave up on modding for the time being due to this. Right now I'm working on unique abilities on a dummy file until hopefully a solution appears.

 

[Human Crouton]

I've been working with the template, but not touching anything related to the dds files, and also not changing the leader name. It's working fine that way. It's annoying, but I can get enough done that maybe a solution will come around by the time I have to deal with it.