Loading crash

[JHMP]

My apologies if I am late to the party and this ha already been fixed, but here is what I discovered ...

I could not load my 300 + turn game anymore no matter what (standard map). Tried turning things down, switching off AV etc. My machine runs Civ 5 fine. The message I would get was "this program has stopped responding " (win 7). What I suspected was that actually there was something not kosher between windows and Civ 5, not AV and Civ 5 so I ran Civ 5 in Comodo Internet Security's sandbox as "untrusted". It worked and I have tested it several times. Without sandbox it crashes with sandbox it loads fine. I am sure there are other ways to achieve the same thing, other sandboxes, windows settings etc. I hope this helps someone out there.

No loss of performance in this particular sandbox btw!

 

[ossmobilus]

I have no idea what you're talking about... Sandbox what?!? But I've got trouble loading just about any game recently, something to do with Microsoft Visual C++ debug something something.. I don't quite understand... Why must this happen? There's been no problem with this before?

 

[The_J]

@ossmobilus: Sandbox means, that there's a security software which isolates the programm completly from the operating system, so that it can't affect anything else around.

...let's guess a bit here...are civ5/Steam run with admin rights? Because i guess the sandbox simulates such rights (in the sandbox; so that nothing interferes with the program), and if you run it without...

 

[ossmobilus]

It think it has admin rights, at least the box 'run as admin' is checked in properties. But can that have anything to do with loading? I only started having trouble with that last week, and haven't been able to load a game since...

 

[ossmobilus]

Ahh, wait... It's probably something to do with the mods I'm using. The vanilla version suck so bad I forget I always rely on my mods ;P I'll have to check that...

 

[ossmobilus]

It was one my mods. I've cleaned up my mods selection, and the game works again. I've no idea which mod caused the problem, because I didn't methodicly go through them all, simply deleted everything. Probably just a conflict of sorts...