dark elf campaign - CTD when viewing settlement

**cedric37** · January 16, 2010, 06:29 AM

Hi all,

I was playing dark elf campaign and truely enjoying it (with no CTD until then), then suddenly on turn 41; clicking on Dark Elves Camp settlement made the game to CTD (no explanation of the error in the systems log, just unspecified error, although the log is set on trace = yes). The game won't even reload...
I tried to re-apply again all translations + hotfix, and now the game can load, but every time i click on this settlement, i get a CTD, otherwise the game run fine.

Any Help appreciated.

Cheers,
Cédric.

**hick09** · January 16, 2010, 06:42 AM

the fix improves the work of saves. It means that the problem is in the translation. See your log.

**cedric37** · January 16, 2010, 06:45 AM

My log doesn't seem to point me out in the right direction, concerning the missing translations.
Maybe i should try a full russian version and see if it passes through.

Right now i have re-installed translated text 1.01 + latest hotfix 1.02 + translated text 1.02.
I even tried to re-apply hotfix 1.02 afterward and it does not change anything.

**hick09** · January 16, 2010, 06:49 AM

voila, translation 1.02 isn't appropriate to the hotfix, because it doesn't include new file about new province.

**cedric37** · January 16, 2010, 06:56 AM

Ok i have re-applied 1.02 hotfix text files and still the same CTD (only when clicking on this 1 settlement and i clicked on it many times before no problems...), can you upload a full text folder in russian my friend ?

PS: And my system log does not display any error at all.... weird.

**cedric37** · January 16, 2010, 07:17 AM

Hmmm, i have re-installed the patch 1.02 on another folder, then cut and paste the russian text folder on my folder, and now it is in russian, but i still get the CTD when clicking on Dark Elves Camp. The last thing i remember is that i built dirt roads there; since i did that i gat the CTD. Or maybe no link between the 2 (i have other dirt roads elsewhere).

**cedric37** · January 16, 2010, 11:21 AM

I think i got it; it happens as soon as i get squalour in a DE settlement:

This data/ui/pips/pip_squalour.tga is missing and so is unpacked from data_2.pack but this pack does not exist!
I am now unpacking with unpack_teutonic tool, hope it will works...

**cedric37** · January 16, 2010, 12:00 PM

FYI i had 1300 lines like those before CTD in system log file (before messing up everything):

18:14:51.281 [system.io] [info] exists: missing mods/teutonic/data/ui/pips/pip_squalour.tga
18:14:51.281 [system.io] [trace] file open,,data/ui/pips/pip_squalour.tga,,not found
18:14:51.281 [system.io] [trace] pack open,packs/data_2.pack,data/ui/pips/pip_squalour.tga,1068
18:14:51.281 [system.io] [info] open: found data/ui/pips/pip_squalour.tga (from: packs/data_2.pack)
18:14:51.281 [system.io] [trace] pack data(),,data/ui/pips/pip_squalour.tga,,,1068
18:14:51.281 [system.io] [trace] pack close,,data/ui/pips/pip_squalour.tga,,,-1068

PS: Ok it proved to be a bad idea, i completly messed up my install. So now i will download full version (not only the patch) and re-install from scratch...

**cedric37** · January 17, 2010, 06:14 AM

Ok the issue was REALLY with this squalour thing. I have found a work-around, by editing the descr_settlements_mechanisms.xml file and forcing the squalour effects to ZERO.
By doing this, i have no more CTDs, (no more negative squalour effects either, but this is that or not playing my campaign anymore).

I upload the file here if one get the same issue as me.