Game crashes randomly

[S3bastian]

It's all in the title really.
In both scenario and 'Normal' single player games the game crashes to desktop randomly and with no apparent cause. The only thing the crashes have in common is that the game is fairly advanced, say the 250 turn mark 'ish'. Needless to say this is highly frustrating, especially as the autosave doesn't seem to be on at all. (As a side note, how do you turn the autosave on?)

Thanks
Sebastian

 

[Kael]

It's all in the title really.
In both scenario and 'Normal' single player games the game crashes to desktop randomly and with no apparent cause. The only thing the crashes have in common is that the game is fairly advanced, say the 250 turn mark 'ish'. Needless to say this is highly frustrating, especially as the autosave doesn't seem to be on at all. (As a side note, how do you turn the autosave on?)

Thanks
Sebastian

Post a save and I'll check it out. Make sure you are playing Fall from Heaven and not a modmod. And make sure you have the latest patch applied.

 

[S3bastian]

Here you go.
I don't know what you mean by modmod, and I think I have the latests patch. X wasn't it? It allowed me to play the scenarios in the first place.
Also, any news on the enabling the autosave?

Sebastian

 

[Kael]

I played a few turns of your game, no crash for me.

To enable autosaves go into "..\My Documents\My Games\Beyond the Sword\CivilizationIV.ini" and check the following:

; Specify the number of turns between autoSaves.  0 means no autosave.
AutoSaveInterval = 4

As it says 4 is to do it every 4 turns. This is the default so unless you came in and changed it it should be set to 4. Im wondering if you are on Vista and have UAC on. If so you may want to disable it and see if your autosaves start working and the crashes stop.

 

[S3bastian]

No I'm on XP. Home Edition. Anything similar to the Vista suggestion on this OS?

 

[Kael]

No I'm on XP. Home Edition. Anything similar to the Vista suggestion on this OS?

Nope. Thats a strange one. If you reload that save and play on does it crash for you?

 

[Xionanx]

I am having a similar problem, but it only seems to happen once in every 10 or so games. I did make a few "tweaks" using the mod editor: increased max free XP(since adventurers who become adepts dont get XP like non adventerer adepts), changed the Grigori leader from Adaptable to Charismatic(should be obvious why), and made it so warriors can upgrade into adepts(no more squishy adventurer casters), and lastly increased the range of Vitality and Spring to effect squares around the caster since as they were they were pretty tedious spells to use.

That last change I might suggest be part of the "official" version since as they were I found using them a painfull task in boredom, maybe make it a 3-6 turn cast spell, since that will still save you 3-6 turns of: cast, move, end turn, cast, move, end turn...........

Playing with BtS Patch 317, and FFH 40y

Here's the savegame and mod editor file with my changes saved just in case those are the problem. (tho I dont believe they are since I can play games to the end with the changes I have made with no problems)

 

[megamanx06]

I think I'm getting a similar problem. I posted a save in the bug thread.

edit: page 36 I think.

 

[Nolan08]

I am having a similar problem, as well.

I have had the problem most when I am playing the scenarios.

 

[megamanx06]

no word from kael yet? i'm getting impatient. It's hard to believe in a god that's never there...

 

[JohnCataldo]

First off: Is there a "known bugs" list / thread somewhere? I looked around but didn't see one.


If there's some kind of debug build I might be willing to try it. I haven't bothered posting a save, because I tend to get crashes randomly (seemingly like original poster), and if I reload the game and play on it goes away.

It usually happens if either I've walked away from the computer and come back, or just after playing for an hour or two. It 'feels' like a memory leak, but who really knows. It may well be multiple bugs, even.

Even though it's a crash, I don't consider my issue to be highest severity. In all cases I've been able to reload a save game and continue playing -- it's never stopped me from progressing.

Running on Vista, for what it's worth, OS and game fully patched.