Zamul

Join Date 06/2007

[Beta 2][Crash] Clicking the kingdom button = :(

Whenever I click the Kingdom-button, the game crashes to desktop without generating a debug.err or crashdump. The only thing I can provide is my dxdiag...

The crash occurs regardless of having built a city or not (this was all in singleplayer).

http://pastebin.com/6djTMTHD

EDIT: some more info: I started a new game to check for "reproducability", and this is what I did:

Turn 1: Walked one tile, kingdom button was working.

Turn 2: Walked a couple of more tiles, kingdom button was working.

Turn 3: Stepped on a goodie hut, picked up a dexterity book, used it. Kingdom button now made the game crash.

EDIT 2: And some more: I now ran around for a bit, built a city and some improvements (~25 turns), and when I clicked the kingdom button this time, it worked. But after that, when I clicked the research tab it crashed. This time there was a crash dump, though! Here it is: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/8011677/Elemental0_802-2010-06-11T22-48-10-140.zip

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I have had this same issue. Sometimes the Kingdom Overview does open and hit happens when I make a selection from within the Overview. I have also clicked on an empty space on the map and the different selections from within the Overview show up on the left side of your "taskbar". SOmetimes those work and sometimes they also cause a crash.

I would estimate 10 crashes with no dump file.

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kryo

Join Date 05/2003

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If you can repro this again, see if the last autosave replicates the issue (and if so, post it).

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@kryo:

I just tried reproducing it, but it seems to be working just fine now, didn't manage to crash it even though I followed the same procedure as before. Good news I guess? I suspect that the crash may have had something to do with memory, either video memory or regular RAM, because when the crash occured, I ran the game at 2560x1600 and had advanced lighting on, but after I turned it down to 1920x1200 and AL off, it stopped happening, and now it's not happening even if i turn the settings up again.

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Hello I was just about to report the same problem, although I'm not sure exactly when it began to happen. I do have a save that is in the 19th turn and everytime I load and attempt to click the Kingdom button it crashes without fail. I can click the Research, Design units and Dynasty buttons and it wont crash.

Its worth mentioning that I continued to play from this saved game several turns and everything is going smoothly (most of the time) till I press the Kingdom button. Another Issue I found around 50 turns after the File I provided is that if I switch from Civilization research to Military Research (just click back and forth) when I exit the research screen I get graphic glitches, like white rectangles over the map and blurry graphics. For me at the moment it seems that the Research/Kingdom buttons are the most troublesome, although I just got into the Beta couple of hours ago and I gotta say I like what I'm seeing!

Here are the files I mentioned, hope it works If it doesnt work or for some reason you can't reproduce the crash please let me know.

DX Diag: http://pastebin.com/mp6fDtYb

Saved Game File: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/8088480/KingdomReportCrashSave.EleSav

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Encountered the same bug. Clicking kingdom button crashes every time (once I had the crash, I've played several turns and tried again, no changes). Clicking on map and then on research/unit design/whatever else is there sometimes works, and sometimes crashes too.

dxdiag: http://pastebin.com/FE0pT2qE

savegame: http://www.mediafire.com/?wdonuztmbmm

no memory dump file

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hmm these hapend to me too

if fix it by selecting only cloth map and it worked normal

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cloth map only didn't do anything for me.

done some more testing:

- clicking on: kingdom button, research, magic research, kingdom report from within the main map crashes the game

- clicking on: dynasty, foreign relations, unit design works normally

- clicking on: kingdom report from the dynasty or other non-crashing menus crashes

- clicking on: research & magic research from the dynasty or other non-crashing menus DOES NOT crash the game (though it might just be because a window with "you can't research anything yet!" appears).

hope it helps.

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I have the same problem, more often then not the game crashes when I click the Kingdom Info button in the lower left of the screen. If by some miracle it does not crash then it will most likely crash when clicking any of the buttons on the left. No debug.err or memory dump file generated. I do have a save game that always crashes when clicking the kingdom info button though.

Savegame: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/8154115/AutoSave.EleSav

DxDiag: http://pastebin.com/wa0F6xW5

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