Game Crashes When Starting Battle or Campaign

I'm using a mac, and I installed 2.2b and d. Custom battle crashes before it goes to the loading screen, and when I click on Grand Campaign, it just crashes with no error message. I can't find my logs folder either, even though I have the cfg set to [log] to = mods/ebii/logs/eb.system.log.txt
level = * trace

Help por favor!

Did you follow the Mac instructions in the 2.2b thread?

I'm afraid I know nothing of Mac OS, hopefully one of the other team members will be along who does.

Yep, I followed the Mac instructions for 2.2b. I reinstalled it, and it turns out that I can play 2.2b just fine but when I install 2.2d the campaign and custom battles don't start...

I've spent some time on this today. It seems the problem is with the file imperial_campaign_regions_and_settlement_names.txt. After a lot of trial and error I replaced each file in the 2.2d2 patch one at a time to find out which was causing the crash and this seems to be the culprit. I'm not a modder or a programmer so I don't know why this file is a problem. I assume it has something to do with the feral port not supporting custom settlements. Any ideas as to the downside of not updating this single file? I'm going to try a campaign and will report back.

Caymus

There are no custom settlements. That file has all the settlement names in it, that's all. Its format is consistent with all the other text files, so it doesn't make any sense that there would be a specific issue with it, and not the rest.

Well I retried this morning. Replacing "imperial_campaign_regions_and_settlement_names.txt" does not cause the crash but replacing "imperial_campaign_regions_and_settlement_names.bin" does. In the previous experiments I'd been pairing the .bin and . txt files assuming they were interconnected.

It may not make sense but it seems to be the cause.

Originally Posted by Caymus

Well I retried this morning. Replacing "imperial_campaign_regions_and_settlement_names.txt" does not cause the crash but replacing "imperial_campaign_regions_and_settlement_names.bin" does. In the previous experiments I'd been pairing the .bin and . txt files assuming they were interconnected.

It may not make sense but it seems to be the cause.

They should always be paired - one requires the other. The filename of the bin should be imperial_campaign_regions_and_settlement_names.txt.strings.bin.

Alternatively, don't bother with the strings.bin files - just delete the ones that correspond to the new text files and the game will regenerate them all the same.