CTD in DLV and possible solutions.
I have been playing DLV since 5.1. I’m an avid fan of the mod and I’m always reading the forums but do not post often. I’m not placing this information in any of the DLV version bug threads as I believe these issues cross multiple versions and some are related to the mods interweaved with DLV.
After playing DLV for such a long time I frequently started to get more CTD the closer I got to the year 1250. I believe I have found some basic reasons for some CTDs, usually occurring when progressing to the next turn.
The first problem is if a CTD happens almost immediately after pressing the end turn button. This occurs if you have a family member or general in a settlement with no name present on his traits card. This combined with a building that has one turn remaining to completion. This seems to be the situation that causes the crash here and I assume that a trait is trying to be given to the no name character for completing that building.
Solution: simply after the crash start up your autosaved game and look through your settlements and take that character out of the settlement. Don’t put the character in any other settlement, a fort is ok. I’m unsure if you use this character to fight battles that if it gains traits if that will cause a CTD.
Second problem, is rebel or slaves end of turn CTD. Now this issue has been around awhile and I get most of my CTDs at this point. Once you have pressed end turn and all the other factions have had their turn it finishes with the rebels. When it gets to the rebel or slave turn it CTDs. Now I have been working on this for awhile. Sometimes if you can move, bribe or destroy rebel or slave armies and or kill heretics or witches the turn will progress. It does seem these things help or prevent the CTD. Sometimes you can get to the next turn and sometimes it is impossible to continue. I have had several games where it crashed every time and it was impossible to continue and that really annoyed me(can’t say here how it made me really feel). Just when the game was getting good too!
The problem I have found seems to be characters with no name or only one name. If you notice all characters in DLV have 2 or more names or a title with their name. Usually this is a heretic or a witch with a single name that has caused the CTD. Again this CTD could be that these characters are gaining traits or being killed by the AI factions, result=crash.
Solution: I don’t like to use the medievalshell much but to fix this problem with the heretics and witch’s with one name you need to bring them to a place where you can kill or isolate them.
So using medievalshell or the ~ key to start medievalshell (sorry I know most people know how to work this but some don’t)
First use: toggle_fow to open up the map and then start scanning the map for heretics and witches with one name only(sometimes this can cause a CTD when you click on a unit). More often than not I have found them in the north east quarter of the map, Poland, Lithuania, Novgorod, Kiev, Mongol area etc. Im not sure if this has something to do with the Name mod used in DLV but possibly. I did use the name verifier to check for errors but nothing.
Second: Once found, find a place near your settlements that have a lot of assassins or priests. Find a nice open area and place the cursor over the area and using medievalshell type: show_cursorstat to get the X, Y coordinates of the cursor.
Then type move_character name X, Y (using the cursor coordinates).
example: move_character Hilda 235 181.
Once the Heretic or witch is there kill them with a priest or assassin. I have found most single name heretics and witch’s have low skills and are easy to kill. If you can’t kill them move them again to another priest or assassin for another go. If all fails move them to the Caribbean region or the Islands east or Arhus and isolate them there (sometimes works).
This did work for me several times. I had three saved games that I was unable to continue on. These three were games played with DLV 5.6. One game is a recent game that I had problems with 2 days ago and the others 2 saves are from the past 2 months. All saves would not continue. I tried the solution above and now all 3 saves are now working again.
The third problem is battles freezing and this has been dealt with by Furin and works very well but I just wanted to add an update. Furin’s alternative.zip.
http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showt...=freeze&page=2
I used to get the freezes and this file helped perfectly, not one freeze since using it.
Recently I tried DLV 5.7 and I started getting in battle freezing again, so I used the alternative.zip and all is fine again.
These issues above are not related to my pc
Im running: AMD64x2 4400+, 4Gig of ram, 500gig HD, GF8800gtx and vista 64 ultimate.
Although even with this system sometimes in battles(especially big battles with multiple armies) I still get a message saying I need to upgrade my PC. Anyone get this message in the dropdown box of the battle screen? Same type of box or tab that tells you about reinforcements. I don’t even have the unit size set to huge, usually large. Just curious.
If these solutions do not work let me know or add what solutions you use to this thread.
Sorry for the long read but I have noticed from occasions people having these issues mentioned above. I just wanted to help.
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