Game freezes when archaeology tech is researched

[AedanValu]

Last night I was playing a solo game (yes, solo, not just single player), just relaxing and building myself a nice, big empire.

813 turns into the game, I'm just about to finish researching the archaeology tech. I hit next turn, the barbarians do their thing, then the game freezes up (well, I can still move around the map for a while, it's just stuck on loading (with the spinny globe thing).

This loading will go on forever (I even tried letting it load overnight).


The problem is clearly tied to archaeology, since if I swap my research to another tech, the turn progresses just fine, yet as soon as I switch back and attempt to finish the tech, it freezes when going to the next turn.


Just to clarify, this is NOT when completing a dig site (as is all I seem to come up with when googling for the error). Also playing as Askia, not Washington.


Anyone ran into this problem before? Any solutions?

I'll attach my quicksave to the post so you can try it for yourselves if you'd like (if it does, can you send me a save from the beginning of the next turn so I can atleast play out this game?).

Cheers in advance,

Aedan

 

[Petek]

Your game also freezes for me at exactly the same point. Have you ever played any other solo games to the end?

 

[AedanValu]

I have. This is the first time it's happened. I played a similar game on a similar map with Rome a few days back - only difference was that game had city states in it. I played 1300 turns and won by science.

In that game I dug out several archaeology sites too.

 

[Petek]

No idea what's happening here. Tried to set up a solo game of my own, but couldn't figure out how. I doubt that the developers anticipated this situation (no other civs), so I'm not surprised that it's unstable.