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    Default Corrupted Saves

    Hey there.
    I am facing problems with my save files. Sometimes (I have yet to figure out why or when this happens) my saves randomly kill some of my generals. When I load the savegame I get a notification "a noble death" and one or two of my generals are gone for no reason.
    Well I don't have to point out how annoying this is, even more because it just happens sometimes and usually my favorite hero is dead And it happens with any faction, I experienced it with Sun, Liu Bei and Yuan.

    please help I want to get back to my campaigns without frustration ^^
    greetings

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    Default Re: corrupted saves

    Can you please provide an error log?

    Also, when are you saving? Is it during your turn, pre-battle, during AI turn, or at other times?
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    Default Re: corrupted saves

    I've checked the log already, it does not spawn an entry. And the game does not crash, as i said.
    The last 2 times it happened it was a pre-battle save, but on the other hand i practically only save pre battle and sometimes everything is fine It really annoys me and I never experienced this playing medieval 2 or any mod except this one. Oh and i played the beta and there it didnt happen.

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    Default Re: corrupted saves

    You will always produce a log whenever you play, not just when/if you crash. The log is located in the Medieval II Total War/logs folder

    As far as the corrupted saves, as I explain in this post saving at pre-battle directly leads to save corruption. This issue affects vanilla M2 and all M2 mods, not just this one, as I personally have had it while playing Stainless Steel, TATW, and 1648 (I no longer save pre-battle). However I am guessing that the higher potential for save corruption in this mod, when saving pre-battle, is due to the huge amount of triggers this mod has.
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    Default Re: corrupted saves

    oops last time I checked i had log disabled and the log was from another mod.
    Yeah but as I said, I never experienced THAT kind of corruption. I'm well aware that eg. saving during AI turn does produce errors sometimes, but pre-battle? Sorry but I never had problems with this and im doing this all the time, so is it just highly unluckly or rather a problem with this mod?
    Anyway I attached the logfile and you'll see that I just loaded a save and a General dies :p
    Im trying another campaign without saving pre-battle, lets see if thats the problem.

    thanks for your help anyways
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    Default Re: corrupted saves

    No need to convert the file, simply compress the txt version.

    Indeed puzzling - right after processing the basic game files it processes the end line of the script and then the battle_generaldeathfriendly picture is popping up. I have seen corrupted saves (as in - can't load) due to some scripting, but this appears to be a completely different case. Those save files were huge, in excess of 30MB.
    Sorry, can't help here other then repeating Seether's observation.










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    Default Re: corrupted saves

    Iv had this problem as well as an issue with a general teleporting. I believe it is a result of loading a pre battle save. Before i loaded i tried to move a general out of a city and it was asking me if i wanted to merge him with a great faction hero's army that wasnt even there so out of curiosity i did it and got CTD. When i loaded the game Li Yan died as soon as i loaded and that "Invisible GFH" was gone. Heres my thread on it. http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showt...ction-hero-CTD

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    Default Re: corrupted saves

    Quote Originally Posted by sickNsane View Post
    I believe it is a result of loading a pre battle save.
    Jeah, figured that out aswell now Have played several hours now without saving before battles and no CTD or corrupted save whatsoever =)

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    Default Re: corrupted saves

    Since it is essentially resolved, moving this to the Error Reports forum.
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    Default Re: Corrupted Saves

    I think I know the cause of this issue since this has happened to me a few times as well. It maybe due to pathfinding problems for units that go out of certain cities. Ive had generals that get stuck in the center of the city (he gets teleported to right in the middle of the city, where he gets stuck regardless of how many movement points he has left) when ordered to move out of it. Then since this general unit cant move, he will die the next turn because his current position is on top of a city. the only way gotten around this problem was loading an earlier save and preventing myself from moving that general until another turn.

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    Default Re: Corrupted Saves

    Quote Originally Posted by havuk View Post
    I think I know the cause of this issue since this has happened to me a few times as well. It maybe due to pathfinding problems for units that go out of certain cities. Ive had generals that get stuck in the center of the city (he gets teleported to right in the middle of the city, where he gets stuck regardless of how many movement points he has left) when ordered to move out of it. Then since this general unit cant move, he will die the next turn because his current position is on top of a city. the only way gotten around this problem was loading an earlier save and preventing myself from moving that general until another turn.
    happened to me aswell and the game crashed when you select the general per mouseclick. workaround is to select him via leader-scroll and then you can move him.

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