Random Crashes

[ALLSTARULES!!!]

Hello i found the BUG and BAT mods recently and I really like them. But while i am playing the game randomly crashes to a black screen for around thirty seconds, during which time I cannot do anything. after the thirty seconds i get the windows error reporting window. these crashes are at random times and if i reload and replay the turn where it just crashed there is no problem, until another random time.

 

[EmperorFool]

What are you system specs? Specifically how much system and video RAM and what video card do you have? BAT supplies a lot more graphics, increasing the RAM requirements.

Random crashes like that are indicative of system resource allocation failures, either running out of RAM or having a bad RAM module. Do you play other graphics-intensive games, and do any of them do the same thing?

The black screen for 30 seconds seems more like it's a hardware issue to me, perhaps the graphics card overheating. However, I don't think higher RAM requirements would cause more overheating. The game will be channeling more data over the pipeline for textures and models, but it's the GPU that generates the most heat, and that's caused by high framerates.

 

[ALLSTARULES!!!]

hey thx for the quick response, my specs are core2duo 4300 @ 1.80GHz 2GB Ram, GeForce 8800 GT SLI, I play several other graphics intensive games such as Left 4 Dead with no difficulties. And there is an update to the problem now when i try to load my most recent saved game i get a new error message regarding visual C++ (Ive attached the pic)

 

[EmperorFool]

L4D woot!

Do you have any other mods installed? Does this new crash happen consistently? Can you post the save so I can give it a shot here?

What version of BAT do you have installed? And BUG? Note that BAT includes BUG so these questions can be a little confusing. How did you install them and are you running BAT or just BUG when this happens?

 

[ALLSTARULES!!!]

I dont have any other mods installed and the crashes are random, ive attatched the save.
I have BAT v1.2 and i used the installer, but the crashes also happened with v1.1, i am running BAT.

 

[EmperorFool]

This save crashes for me as well, so it's not your hardware. This type of crash is more common when there's a problem with the art/XML for a particular unit/building that just got built. BAT uses the art from Varietas Delectat 5.0, and it's very big. Each version fixes old issues but adds new art which usually introduces new ones.

Having said that, the solution normally to be able to continue a game in this state is to rename the Assets folder inside BAT Mod 1.2 so that it isn't loaded. This way the game thinks it is loading the mod (technically it is), but none of the actual art/XML changes get loaded. When I do this and launch your save, it still crashes. This means that there is some data in the save that is causing the crash.

Do you have any other mods loaded, specifically a custom DLL? Can you post any previous saves that only crash sometimes?

 

[ALLSTARULES!!!]

I don't have any more BAT 1.2 saves but i do have a 1.1 save that did the same thing

 

[ALLSTARULES!!!]

should i maybe delete all of the BAT/BUG files and reinstall them?

 

[EmperorFool]

should i maybe delete all of the BAT/BUG files and reinstall them?

It couldn't hurt. Lemme try that last save of yours . . . it's BAT 1.0 and I am able to load it by creating an empty "BAT Mod 1.0" folder.