[1.0][Immediate crash loading up autosave and user-initiated save file]

Did you choose to not have any creatures in this game?  Also, is this the first time you tried loading a save from that game, or had previous saves worked just fine?

With a patch, you should be able to load your save game and finish your game; it's not corrupted or anything.  But you have no creatures or an AI player to control them when I loaded the save up, and I want to know if this is something you purposefully set up, or something bad happened earlier in your game.

Whoa, that sounds strange, as I recall that game was under the following start conditions:

Type: Random
Size:Large 
Research: Normal
Production: Normal
World Difficulty: Normal
World Density: DENSE
AI: 6 Opponents, Hard Difficulty

Also, I can't even load the game without crashing -- you're able to load it???

There were a bunch of World monsters roaming around as well as lairs and none of the AI players were eliminated at this stage of the game.

I started new games and can load those saves just fine -- this particular game I cannot load at all. 

Thanks for getting back to me.  Good things to know... I thought it was maybe possible you liked playing without creatures, so I thought I'd check.

I can load your saves up through the black magic of having access to the source code and getting around the problematic parts .  Specifically, your saves are crashing because the game isn't creating a creature AI (a bug in itself that I fixed so it won't crash anymore in the future), but your additional info tells me you wouldn't be particularly happy to recover this save with all the monsters gone .  Thanks for your help, I will try to find the core issue, and it's possible once the next patch goes out that you will be able to load them up again, I'll let you know.

Just for future ammo, I'm having a similar issue.   Started a game, played a turn.  Did something dumb and attempted to reload the autosave - crashes immediately - before finishing loading.    I have a few mods going, which is probably the issue.  Just wanted to throw it out there.  

Actually - trying a few more times - I can't load any saves.   I'll have to restore my game files and try to incrementally find the issue.

As an aside - is there a tool to read a .mdmp file?  So it would narrow down what the issue is?

jutetrea, could you upload one of those saves?  You're right that it could be mods, but I just want to see if you are still crashing in the same place bortlings is, because it is possible there is some data issue I just haven't been able to find yet, and having a smaller earlier save might make it easier to find.  Thanks.