Broken hotseat savegames

**Rumpelstilzchen** · May 23, 2011, 02:35 PM

Hey there,

thanks for any help though I fear our problem can't be solved that easily.

My friends and I play a hotseat campaign with ss 6.4 RR/RC (at least I think its 6.4 might be an earlier version, it's been a while since I installed it) with bygs grim reality. Until now everything worked perfectly we didn't have graphic bugs or CTDs. At least until now. The problems started shortly (max. 10-15 rounds) after the mongols arrived and somehow the error can't be located in a certain round.

The problem is that our save games aren't to be loaded anymore. I got my round from a friend and tried to load it but couldn't, so I asked him to send me the last save file again hoping the problem would vanish but it didn't- it even got worse, the next day my friend told me he couldn't open any of the last rounds we played. To find out if the problem only occurs on his PC I tried to play on from the last loadable save. I resumed from a savegame about 8 rounds earlier but after approximately 6 rounds later I had a CTD myself and when I tried to restart the game shortly before the CTD I get the message that med2 encountered an unspecified error and will now exit.

The last save that works is in round 125 and the game works from then on but then (sadly not in the same round each time) closes after a while. All the saves I make from round 125 onwards seem to be corrupt. As far as I can tell the CTD isn't triggered by a certain event, and to be honest I don't understand enough of the game to interpret the log files.

I could try to delete events after round 125 but I doubt this would help. I'd be truly thankful for any suggestions especially since we invested so much time and really enjoyed this campaign.

THX

(I already tried the cache and autosave tips mentioned in an earlier post)

**bɑne** · May 23, 2011, 03:05 PM

Moved from Before posting: How to fix broken savegames and stability issues (incl. fatal graphics errors) to its own troubleshooting topic.

**Makrell** · May 23, 2011, 03:10 PM

if this is early 6.2/6.3 there is a hotseat CTD at a specific turn. dont remember what turn though. Bane_tw made a hotseat fix for it in the multiplayer forum.

**bɑne** · May 24, 2011, 01:45 AM

Originally Posted by Makrell

if this is early 6.2/6.3 there is a hotseat CTD at a specific turn. dont remember what turn though. Bane_tw made a hotseat fix for it in the multiplayer forum.

Regretably I don't think it will help here.

Rumpelstilzchen, upload your system.logs, that is at least one log created after the crash.