Single Player bugs and crashes v38 plus (SVN) - After the 20th of February 2018

[Dancing Hoskuld]

SVN 10169

Started new game, I did not select "combat mod - Fight or Flight", but game plays like it is ON.

Ignore this if you went through the Custom Game screen.

This will probably be because your choice of game options is stored as a string of ones and zeros in the ini file on your machine and a "new game" does not change what is stored there. It assums you want to use what you had in your last game

Three usual possibilities:-

• you had it on in your last game
• you played a different mod and have got that mods set of ones and zeros
• someone changed the order of the game options and has just broken everyone's game

 

[KaTiON_PT]

Someone changed the order of the game options and has just broken everyone's game

It was me when I added the option of increased research costs, raxo2222 as already placed it at the bottom of the list.

 

[strategyonly]

CTD, mini and save attached .. it is repeatable . . CTD on next turn . .

 

[Dancing Hoskuld]

It was me when I added the option of increased research costs, raxo2222 as already placed it at the bottom of the list.

There was a game option that you could have replaced as it is not used. When I get back I'll chanege its name to something like "Spare Unused Option" it is "Ecological Animals" at the moment.

 

[raxo2222]

There was a game option that you could have replaced as it is not used. When I get back I'll chanege its name to something like "Spare Unused Option" it is "Ecological Animals" at the moment.

In text file its marked as WIP, maybe it was one of @Thunderbrd projects?

 

[Toffer90]

In text file its marked as WIP, maybe it was one of @Thunderbrd projects?

Pretty sure it was something DH started on long ago, related to turning on/off some animals, or related to them spawning in their native biome.

 

[strategyonly]

another CTD.. mini only attached . .

 

[KaTiON_PT]

Looks like the same issue as last time with the ntdll.dll where there's corrupt or missing art files...

 

[raxo2222]

Crashes happen without autorun too....
There is a lot of errors in resmgr...

Spoiler :

RESMGR: Texture Wheat_farm_base.dds failed to load
RESMGR: Texture shrine_Water_GLOSS.dds failed to load
RESMGR: Texture shrine_Water_GLOSS.dds failed to load
RESMGR: Texture Art/Interface/MainScreen/CityScreen/slave_sanitation.dds failed to load
RESMGR: Texture Art/Interface/MainScreen/CityScreen/slave_crime_prevention.dds failed to load
RESMGR: Texture tiger_blink.dds failed to load
RESMGR: Texture AnimalTeeth.dds failed to load
RESMGR: Texture morningstar.dds failed to load
RESMGR: Texture tiger_blink.dds failed to load
RESMGR: Texture tiger_blink.dds failed to load
RESMGR: Texture AnimalTeeth.dds failed to load
RESMGR: Texture tiger_blink.dds failed to load
RESMGR: Texture tiger_blink.dds failed to load
RESMGR: Texture tiger_blink.dds failed to load
RESMGR: Texture tiger_blink.dds failed to load
RESMGR: Texture tiger_blink.dds failed to load
RESMGR: Texture tiger_blink.dds failed to load
RESMGR: Texture tiger_blink.dds failed to load
RESMGR: Texture tiger_blink.dds failed to load
RESMGR: Texture tiger_blink.dds failed to load
RESMGR: Texture hatshepsut_diff_gloss.dds failed to load
RESMGR: Texture tiger_blink.dds failed to load
RESMGR: Texture tiger_blink.dds failed to load
RESMGR: Texture tiger_blink.dds failed to load
RESMGR: Texture FlagDECAL.dds failed to load
RESMGR: Texture PlayerColor01.tga failed to load
RESMGR: Texture PlayerColor02.tga failed to load
RESMGR: Texture FlagDECAL.dds failed to load
RESMGR: Texture PlayerColor01.tga failed to load
RESMGR: Texture PlayerColor02.tga failed to load
RESMGR: Texture FlagDECAL.dds failed to load
RESMGR: Texture PlayerColor01.tga failed to load
RESMGR: Texture PlayerColor02.tga failed to load
RESMGR: Texture tiger_blink.dds failed to load
RESMGR: Texture tiger_blink.dds failed to load
RESMGR: Texture tiger_blink.dds failed to load
RESMGR: Texture tiger_blink.dds failed to load
RESMGR: Texture tiger_blink.dds failed to load
RESMGR: Texture tiger_blink.dds failed to load
RESMGR: Texture tiger_blink.dds failed to load
RESMGR: Failed loading file . Error message: A file I/O error occurred.
RESMGR: Failed loading file . Error message: A file I/O error occurred.
RESMGR: Texture tiger_blink.dds failed to load
RESMGR: Texture Ibex_Beard.dds failed to load
RESMGR: Texture ele_blink03.dds failed to load
RESMGR: Texture BigCatRR_blink02.dds failed to load
RESMGR: Texture cow_blink.dds failed to load
RESMGR: Texture Mongol_Swordsman_128_GLOSS.dds failed to load
RESMGR: Texture Mongol_Swordsman_128.dds failed to load
RESMGR: Texture wcape.dds failed to load
RESMGR: Texture wcape_gloss.dds failed to load
RESMGR: Texture axeman_gloss.dds failed to load
RESMGR: Texture axeman_128.dds failed to load
RESMGR: Texture horns.dds failed to load
RESMGR: Texture horns_gloss.dds failed to load
RESMGR: Texture lotr_shield.dds failed to load
RESMGR: Texture lotr_shield_gloss.dds failed to load
RESMGR: Texture heavyaxe.dds failed to load
RESMGR: Texture heavyaxe_gloss.dds failed to load
RESMGR: Texture berseker.dds failed to load
RESMGR: Texture berseker_gloss.dds failed to load
RESMGR: Texture tiger_blink.dds failed to load
RESMGR: Texture tiger_blink.dds failed to load
RESMGR: Texture tiger_blink.dds failed to load
RESMGR: Texture tiger_blink.dds failed to load
RESMGR: Texture guanaco_blink.dds failed to load
RESMGR: Texture tiger_blink.dds failed to load
RESMGR: Texture tiger_blink_blank.dds failed to load
RESMGR: Texture tiger_blink.dds failed to load
RESMGR: Texture AnimalTeeth.dds failed to load
RESMGR: Texture hutia_blink.dds failed to load
RESMGR: Texture Sloth_blink02.dds failed to load
RESMGR: Texture tiger_blink.dds failed to load
RESMGR: Texture tiger_blink.dds failed to load
RESMGR: Texture tiger_blink_blank.dds failed to load
RESMGR: Texture tiger_blink_blank.dds failed to load
RESMGR: Texture tiger_blink.dds failed to load
RESMGR: Texture tiger_blink.dds failed to load
RESMGR: Texture tiger_blink.dds failed to load
RESMGR: Failed loading file . Error message: A file I/O error occurred.
RESMGR: Failed loading file . Error message: A file I/O error occurred.
RESMGR: Texture cuscus_blink.dds failed to load
RESMGR: Texture tiger_blink.dds failed to load
RESMGR: Texture tiger_blink.dds failed to load
RESMGR: Texture tiger_blink.dds failed to load
RESMGR: Texture Anteater_blink.dds failed to load
RESMGR: Texture tiger_blink.dds failed to load
RESMGR: Texture tiger_blink.dds failed to load
RESMGR: Failed loading file . Error message: A file I/O error occurred.
RESMGR: Texture tiger_blink.dds failed to load
RESMGR: Texture tiger_blink.dds failed to load
RESMGR: Texture BigCatRR_blink02.dds failed to load
RESMGR: Texture tiger_blink.dds failed to load
RESMGR: Texture tiger_blink.dds failed to load
RESMGR: Failed loading file . Error message: A file I/O error occurred.
RESMGR: Texture tiger_blink.dds failed to load
RESMGR: Texture tiger_blink_blank.dds failed to load
RESMGR: Texture Emu_Crest.dds failed to load
RESMGR: Failed loading file . Error message: A file I/O error occurred.
RESMGR: Texture tiger_blink.dds failed to load
RESMGR: Texture tiger_blink.dds failed to load
RESMGR: Texture tiger_blink.dds failed to load
RESMGR: Texture tiger_blink.dds failed to load
RESMGR: Texture tiger_blink.dds failed to load
RESMGR: Texture tiger_blink.dds failed to load
RESMGR: Failed loading file . Error message: A file I/O error occurred.
RESMGR: Failed loading file . Error message: A file I/O error occurred.
RESMGR: Failed loading file . Error message: A file I/O error occurred.
RESMGR: Failed loading file . Error message: A file I/O error occurred.
RESMGR: Texture tiger_blink.dds failed to load
RESMGR: Failed loading file . Error message: A file I/O error occurred.
RESMGR: Texture tiger_blink.dds failed to load
RESMGR: Failed loading file . Error message: A file I/O error occurred.
RESMGR: Failed loading file . Error message: A file I/O error occurred.
RESMGR: Failed loading file . Error message: A file I/O error occurred.
RESMGR: Failed loading file . Error message: A file I/O error occurred.
RESMGR: Texture tiger_blink.dds failed to load
RESMGR: Failed loading file . Error message: A file I/O error occurred.
RESMGR: Failed loading file . Error message: A file I/O error occurred.
RESMGR: Failed loading file . Error message: A file I/O error occurred.
RESMGR: Texture tiger_blink.dds failed to load
RESMGR: Failed loading file . Error message: A file I/O error occurred.
RESMGR: Texture tiger_blink.dds failed to load
RESMGR: Failed loading file . Error message: A file I/O error occurred.
RESMGR: Failed loading file . Error message: A file I/O error occurred.
RESMGR: Failed loading file . Error message: A file I/O error occurred.
RESMGR: Failed loading file . Error message: A file I/O error occurred.
RESMGR: Texture plantation2a.dds failed to load
RESMGR: Texture Environmental_Gray2.dds failed to load
RESMGR: Texture bag.dds failed to load
RESMGR: Failed loading file . Error message: A file I/O error occurred.
RESMGR: Texture scout_fringe_128X16.dds failed to load
RESMGR: Failed loading file . Error message: A file I/O error occurred.
RESMGR: Texture tiger_blink.dds failed to load
RESMGR: Texture tiger_blink.dds failed to load
RESMGR: Texture tiger_blink.dds failed to load
RESMGR: Failed loading file . Error message: A file I/O error occurred.
RESMGR: Texture tiger_blink.dds failed to load
RESMGR: Failed loading file . Error message: A file I/O error occurred.
RESMGR: Texture WarElephant_Carthage_gloss.dds failed to load
RESMGR: Failed loading file . Error message: A file I/O error occurred.
RESMGR: Failed loading file . Error message: A file I/O error occurred.
RESMGR: Failed loading file . Error message: A file I/O error occurred.
RESMGR: Texture tiger_blink.dds failed to load
RESMGR: Scene file failed to load. Reason: (code:1) Cannot open file. (X1000)

Sometimes not even dmp file is left.

I'm not sure if its fault of outdated debug DLL, but it keeps screaming: "Illegal use of Python on background thread"
Here is autosave.

 

[KaTiON_PT]

Look like it's and old issue.

 

[raxo2222]

Lets see if setting
<Define>
<DefineName>NUM_CITY_PIPELINE_THREADS</DefineName>
<iDefineIntVal>4</iDefineIntVal>
</Define>
to 1 helps.... maybe AI is trying to place two group wonders of same group in two cities at once?

Nightmare (and Deity) AIs have extra city on start.

I have 8 GB of ram, so it can't be MAFs.
At least not until I leave solar system

58th turn of Blitz Nightmare AI Autoplay and no crash.
WFL, TD, Tech Trading, Tech diffusion and Upscaled Research Costs are active.

Maybe Toffer's python overhaul or recent changes to DLL made multithreading unstable?

I'm tempted to commit this change to define.

 

[Toffer90]

Look like it's and old issue.

There are some of the nif files (3D models) that use some texture files which are not found by the game. It wouldn't cause a crash, at worst it could cause pink 3D models.

The nif files are so jury rigged that there are many cases of records within them saying that "Model: [No model] needs this texture: [path\folder\texture.dds] to be applied nowhere.".
So even pink models might not appear in game, because they are not supposed to be on any visible meshes in the first place.

 

[KaTiON_PT]

10175
Reduced maintaince of graveyard.
Disabled multithreading - this may be source of random crashes, no noticeable change of turn times.

@strategyonly see if this was the reason for your non-repeatable crashes.

 

[raxo2222]

@strategyonly see if this was the reason for your non-repeatable crashes.

Probably it helped - even without Toffer's modmod multithreading probably destabilized game very slightly.
On other hand you can get MAF, if you play long enough without restarting.

 

[strategyonly]

cant build a childbirth hut in the medieval era?? so cant build fertility dance???

 

[raxo2222]

cant build a childbirth hut in the medieval era?? so cant build fertility dance???

Probably it was replaced by newer building.
Or it was obsoleted.

Since buildings are least polished thing in game their prereqs can be all over place or have badly timed obsoletion/replacement of prereqs.

 

[KaTiON_PT]

cant build a childbirth hut in the medieval era?? so cant build fertility dance???

Probably it was replaced by newer building.
Or it was obsoleted.

Since buildings are least polished thing in game their prereqs can be all over place or have badly timed obsoletion/replacement of prereqs.

There is indeed a wide interval where Fertility Dance is available but impossible to be built. While Fertility Dance is made obsolete in the industrial era with Women's Suffrage the Childbirth Hut (one of its requirements) is obsoleted in the classical era with Ancient Medicine.

The question is then: should the Childbirth Hut be made obsolete much later (like Childcare Hut that is made obsolete with the modern era technology Consumerism) or should Fertility Dance be made obsolete earlier in the classical era?

 

[raxo2222]

There is indeed a wide interval where Fertility Dance is available but impossible to be built. While Fertility Dance is made obsolete in the industrial era with Women's Suffrage the Childbirth Hut (one of its requirements) is obsoleted in the classical era with Ancient Medicine.

The question is then: should the Childbirth Hut be made obsolete much later (like Childcare Hut that is made obsolete with the modern era technology Consumerism) or should Fertility Dance be made obsolete earlier in the classical era?

Probably its @Dancing Hoskuld thing

I think he or someone else said, that some buildings have their buildings requirements obsoleteing early on purpose, so early cities that managed to get prereq for X building can get X building until X obsoletes much later.
Such design is confusing though.

 

[tmv]

Such design is confusing though.

Mostly because it means that these buildings don't shut down completely - perhaps ever. Other than fortification (where it's especially mentioned) you wouldn't expect such an effect to happen.

 

[Thunderbrd]

I'm not sure what's so confusing about being able to construct a building up to a point but then even though you can't construct it afterwards, have it still function for a while.

But yes, it's a DH design.

My preference is to interlink upgrades.