Game Freezes with India

[Dwight Frye]

Every time India is one of the civs the game eventually freezes, usually in the late Middle Ages. I've tried reinstalling the game, but this doesn't help. I always play randomly -- that is, I let the AI choose the civ I will be as well as my oppoonents. Whenever I discover that India is one of the civs, I either have to restart the game or (as in the game I'm currently in), try to wipe India out before the freeze.

Is there some way to either fix the freeze problem or to insure that India is not one of the random civs chosen at the beginning of a game?

 

[Puppeteer]

Did you uninstall before reinstall? I've seen crashes due to corrupt sound or graphic files which tend to happen at a certain point in the game (that civ changes eras or gets a new unit), but I'm not sure I've seen a freeze. But since you've identified a particular civ and particular time it would seem to be likely a corrupt file. If you didn't uninstall before reinstalling it might not have overwritten the corrupt file.

To be sure, you could uninstall, then be sure all the game files are gone from the hard drive in the install location and VirtualStore ( %localappdata%\VirtualStore\ ), run a chkdsk /f c:, reboot and then reinstall.

When you say it usually happens in the late MA, is India in the late MA or just getting to Chivalry? Wonder if the War Elephant graphics or sounds are messed up? Or maybe India is changing ages and their MA or IA leaderhead is corrupt, depending on whether they are ahead of or behind you. If you would rather tinker than reinstall you could try temporarily replacing suspect files with those from another unit/leaderhead, but it's tedious; a nuclear (as above) uninstall/reinstall would probably be easier.