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Happy Holidays, Mel! I hope you're enjoying some time off with your family.

I got you some presents for Xmas. Bugs are presents for developers, right? ;)

Game # / Name

636 / Islandia's G&K
1279 / Peaceful 1
850 / The Big Gamble

I've been getting persistent CTD problems with these three games, have tried single step and full turn reverts in all three, but still had the CTD when the save came back to my turn. In the first two, it will be interesting to see if the next players get an error or not, since I've been skipped over due to the timer, since I was unable to play the turns, because loading up the save caused a CTD in each. The Big Gamble it's still my turn--as the host, I disabled the timer.

Ho ho ho! Enjoy! :D

P.S.: I've tried the three different download methods for at least one of these games. I've found using another method to get the save to be useful in getting around the timing out problem I was getting before. I don't think it's ever helped with getting around a CTD bug. Whenever I've tried alternate methods with a save that crashes civ, it still crashes civ, no matter how I DL it.
 
Onan said:
And, on to a strange issue I've been getting...twice over the last day, I've gotten this message, paraphrasing: application failed to download properly. It's a GMR update, and it went to 99% and then hung for several minutes, then later came up with the message.

Hopefully I can use the website, cause right now for some reason I can't update GMR successfully...well, on two attempts at least.
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Hey Onan, sorry for all the GMR troubles :(

It really seems like most of these CTDs are a CiV/system issue, and not necessarily something we can fix with GMR. However Brian and I really want to help make it work for the players that are encountering it and are investigating a few things relating to memory performance for CiV. We're also thinking of trying to contact Firaxis/2K and send them a couple of the save files that seem to be causing trouble for people, maybe they could help :)

If the GMR client is failing to update, what happens if you uninstall it and then try to install it fresh? Use this link to install it: http://multiplayerrobot.com/ClientDeploy/setup.exe
 
Foffaren said:
http://www.multiplayerrobot.com/Game/Details/722

I get banmans turn when I load up the file. A revert is standard procedure for these kinds of problems, however, when I try to do the revert nothing happens. The site asks me if I want to revert and then puts me on the "my games" site again but its still my turn. Can you revert it for us?
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It took some magic but I got it reverted back to a proper turn. Let me know if you run into any more trouble :)
 
Hey, good idea about contacting Firaxis. They should hopefully give it a little more attention, coming from you, who can report some aggregate data (or something like that) and give some good examples, rather than just one of us average schmucks complaining.

Sorry, I should have mentioned: in the third day, the app updated successfully, have been using it since without problems, except for the CTD saves.
 
Sorry I seem to be bombarding you with stuff lately.

This one is surprising, and perhaps a little different. Usually when I get a CTD I get to the load game button, select the save, and then hit the load / launch button (whatever it is at that point in Civ)...then I get the leader/civ load page, then the music hits a loop and I know it's going to crash.

This game, which is only on turn 4, with a save of about 1.4 MB, just goes to a black screen with the spinning world (loading) cursor, and crashes much more quickly.

Tried reverting back to the previous player, who's on vacation, so it still didn't work when it came back to me. Currently I've reverted it two players to get to an actual human...we'll see what happens.

I'm mostly surprised because it's still so early in the game and the save is relatively small....

Edit: game 2176 "Scarcity"
 
Good news! Reverting worked for Scarcity. :)
 
Hello GMR team!

I will greatly appreciate if you help me to solve the problem with the GMR game #1945 "GMR, Standard, Continents" in which I am taking part.
The host of the game, Cloudmoon, has recently left the game. Now the new host is gertadam.
As I know gertadam did not sub anyone in this game, because he has signed in since the very start of the game. I have realised that gertadam has been in vacation mode since the start of the game, because his "average time to play turn" is signed as "No average yet".
Can you please set my account (rstark84) as the host of this game?
And is it possible to kick out gertadam from our game, because he is inactive for 24 turns (52 days)?

Happy New Year!
 
RStark said:
Hello GMR team!

I will greatly appreciate if you help me to solve the problem with the GMR game #1945 "GMR, Standard, Continents" in which I am taking part.
The host of the game, Cloudmoon, has recently left the game. Now the new host is gertadam.
As I know gertadam did not sub anyone in this game, because he has signed in since the very start of the game. I have realised that gertadam has been in vacation mode since the start of the game, because his "average time to play turn" is signed as "No average yet".
Can you please set my account (rstark84) as the host of this game?
And is it possible to kick out gertadam from our game, because he is inactive for 24 turns (52 days)?

Happy New Year!
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Happy New Year to you too! :)

I've made you the host so you may continue to manage your game. And yes, Gertadem has been on Vacation Mode for sometime now since he can only play CiV on his Mac which is incompatible with the new save files until the Mac version of CiV gets patched to the latest. I've gone ahead and removed him from the game for now. If/when he comes back you can just re-invite him.
 
m4stermel said:
Happy New Year to you too! :)

I've made you the host so you may continue to manage your game. And yes, Gertadem has been on Vacation Mode for sometime now since he can only play CiV on his Mac which is incompatible with the new save files until the Mac version of CiV gets patched to the latest. I've gone ahead and removed him from the game for now. If/when he comes back you can just re-invite him.
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Thank you for the support! :goodjob:
 
...and the bad news. Game 1279 still CTD for me, after letting the AI play my turn and a new turn coming back to me. I think this is the first time I've seen it happen two turns in a row...then again, probably also the first time I let the AI play my turn as a last resort when I couldn't load it.
 
Happy new year, Mel!

As usual, I have, um, gifts...yeah, gifts! :blush:

Can you take a look at game 850, the big gamble, please? We had a new player join, and a later player is getting their turn. Also, if you could revert to before my turn, I'd like to take another crack at loading the save, if possible. I put the timer on and got myself skipped, but maybe after you work some, admittedly unrelated, magic, maybe it'll work for me.... Ever hopeful. :)
 
Onan said:
Happy new year, Mel!

As usual, I have, um, gifts...yeah, gifts! :blush:

Can you take a look at game 850, the big gamble, please? We had a new player join, and a later player is getting their turn. Also, if you could revert to before my turn, I'd like to take another crack at loading the save, if possible. I put the timer on and got myself skipped, but maybe after you work some, admittedly unrelated, magic, maybe it'll work for me.... Ever hopeful. :)
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Thanks Onan :)

I worked some "magic" for you, reverting back to Islandia and then playing his turn for him. It's back to you and Michael is set in the game properly. I tested the save file for your turn and it loads on my computer. Fingers crossed it works for you :)
 
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