Game crashing on save?

[Sancus]

I'm currently running in the Earth scenario(Huge world) around 1800 AD, and the game constantly crashes every time it tries to save whether it's autosave or a manual quick save or a manual normal save.

It seems to go for about 4-6 turns, where saving works, then after that, a save will crash the game... which means my gaming sessions last for about 6 or 7 turns, then crash and go back 3 turns, which is uh.. a bit frustrating to say the least.

The saves that the game crashes on are quite obvious, as they end up 1,807 bytes exactly instead of the normal 350-450kb size.

In a couple posts down I uploaded a save file that can easily be used to reproduce the problem:

1. Load the Save game
2. go through 4 turns or so and do a save
3. Do 4 or 5 more turns(or 30.. it doesnt seem to matter)
4. Try to save, and watch the game crash producing a 1,807 byte savegame file.

 

[elderotter]

saves eat up a lot of memory maybe clean them up...esp auto save - in fact turn that off.

 

[Sancus]

er not really, they only "eat up" about 400kb at this stage of the game, but I note that the amount they use is increasing as the game progresses.

At around 1600 AD it was about 425kb, and now they're approaching 500kb(which, amusingly enough, is the file upload limit for this forum).

I uploaded both the save game that's crashing like this, as well as one of the "aborted" crashed save games in case they're of use to anyone and due to the post at the top of this forum that says they're useful!