CTD on a specific date - IBFD 7.03

**Arbustro** · June 28, 2007, 08:55 AM

It seems i'm not the only one having that problem

mine happens in the summer of 462, i reinstalled the full mod and it still happens... i tried to look for the error but i've got no clue about what it could be

**Mylae** · June 28, 2007, 11:53 AM

if you have the italian version of the game, it is due to an error of a BI historical message...

**Arbustro** · June 28, 2007, 04:04 PM

i have the gold edition, and installed the english version

can the error be fixed? is it script or text?

**Mylae** · June 29, 2007, 01:42 AM

very strange error. don't think is script, however.

**Ramon Gonzales y Garcia** · July 01, 2007, 09:56 AM

testing latest build with -ai switch, I have also noticed a smilar error at 450 - 465 AD. since scripts aren't enabled with -ai switch it isn't script, I am anow editing events not to be triggered will see what happens

**Arbustro** · July 16, 2007, 01:10 PM

so any luck?

**Ramon Gonzales y Garcia** · July 18, 2007, 01:45 AM

removing the event entry seems too have skipped the CTD, however, another CTD occured during the next 'event' entry so also removed that but have not had time to test a game reaching up to that date, yet.

**Arbustro** · July 18, 2007, 11:57 AM

yup it worked for me too, and then new ctd a few turns later although i erased all event entries...

**Ramon Gonzales y Garcia** · July 19, 2007, 01:05 AM

yup, as u mentioned... I now have a recurring CTD at 462 AD (no scripts, no envents). Actually it causes an error message to BI (BI has encountered a problem and will now close...)
I have a nagging feeling this has something to do w/ the RB being available from the beginning of the game (if u notice in vanilla BI, they are triggered by an event w/c is NOT in events.txt, so it must be hardcoded)... will try some tests to verify this... will take some time, though; it takes more than an hour in -ai mode to reach 462 AD

**Riothamus** · July 19, 2007, 01:04 PM

Originally Posted by Ramon Gonzales y Garcia

yup, as u mentioned... I now have a recurring CTD at 462 AD (no scripts, no envents). Actually it causes an error message to BI (BI has encountered a problem and will now close...)
I have a nagging feeling this has something to do w/ the RB being available from the beginning of the game (if u notice in vanilla BI, they are triggered by an event w/c is NOT in events.txt, so it must be hardcoded)... will try some tests to verify this... will take some time, though; it takes more than an hour in -ai mode to reach 462 AD

The RB is triggered by the hidden resource, "britain". When another faction takes over Britannia_Superior or Britannia_Inferior, (in the vanilla game or a modded game) the RB spawn army appears. If the britain hidden resource is used on another province besides the provinces noted above, it will still spawn a RB army. Somehow its hard coded to only spawn once after the province with the britain resouce is captured. It will spawn a RB army once even if the RB are starting at the beginning of the game. I removed it by changing the hidden resource to brit for the spawned army was uba strong at times....but I don't remember it causing any ctd. Hope any of this helps.

Also to just note, the vanilla faction_creator is as the empire_west in desc strat and desc regions and not romano_british. This may mean nothing but again I guess it could.

**Ramon Gonzales y Garcia** · July 20, 2007, 01:03 AM

Originally Posted by Riothamus

The RB is triggered by the hidden resource, "britain". When another faction takes over Britannia_Superior or Britannia_Inferior, (in the vanilla game or a modded game) the RB spawn army appears. If the britain hidden resource is used on another province besides the provinces noted above, it will still spawn a RB army. Somehow its hard coded to only spawn once after the province with the britain resouce is captured. It will spawn a RB army once even if the RB are starting at the beginning of the game. I removed it by changing the hidden resource to brit for the spawned army was uba strong at times....but I don't remember it causing any ctd. Hope any of this helps.

good point, will try to change britain hidden resource to something else and see what happens,

Also to just note, the vanilla faction_creator is as the empire_west in desc strat and desc regions and not romano_british. This may mean nothing but again I guess it could.

maybe....

I have also tried replaying the autosave game after the CTD at 462 AD and have gone up to 490 w/out any CTDs...

**Riothamus** · July 20, 2007, 08:08 AM

Ramon, something I noticed is that the mercs costs differ from the descr_mercenaries to the export_descr_unit.

unit merc graal knights, exp 2 cost 850 replenish 0.06 - 0.44 max 1 initial 0

type merc graal knights
stat_cost 2, 700, 300, 100, 150, 900

I'm pretty sure they caused ctd with the rio mod if I didn't have the costs the same. I just remember for some reason it caused sometimes ctd.

Edit...could be I made them recruitable also in the export_descr_buildings ....prob not an issue w/your mod