Game closes randomly when I click on a unit card, or anywhere.

I've been having this error on both my laptops. It's very annoying because I always lose progress and it literally is demotivating me from playing this very nice mod.

So, I load a campaign, after a few turns, I right click on a unit card or anywhere, and bam, the game just closes to desktop. It's very strange.

I hope there is a fix to this.

It sounds like a graphic\over heat issue. Keep in mind that the game only uses one core...

Try reducing special effects in the video options (shadows etc) and see if the issue persists.


The auto save function should enable you to get back to the previous turn, granted it's annoying but not toot much of a loss unless you just finished the battle of the year with a heroic win

Although autosave corrupts saves - better to get in the habit of regularly manually saving.

I haven't had that experience myself in 10 years of playing the game - can you give me link so I can follow up on probable causes? I don't really think it's the auto save itself that causes the corruption, rather WHAT it saves.

In 1648 we were ending with idiotically large save game files that we thought were corrupt. Turned out it was the save itself which was cause by our massive re-spawning of 'fort names' (300+) every turn. Apparently the game does keeps character details in memory when saving, regardless if the character exists or not.
Nothing really to worry about in a regular game, after all we deleted and the re-introduced more then 300 characters every round and the save game issue didn't surface until 80-90 turns into the game. The save game size by then was in excess of 35MB, the biggest size ever was 115MB. It didn't effect the game in any way, you just simply couldn't load a save.

I've experienced this a few times in 2.2e. One thing stands out, in all cases I was frequently alttabing to recruitment viewer. That's the only thing tht I can think of that could be inducing it. I'm habitual alttabber, but never experienced such crashes except for the well known memory leak and the unit card close crash that plagued earlier versions of EB.

Alt tabbing is the devil.

You need to have the game set to windowed in the mod's CFG file (opens with Notepad) to avoid stuff like this when alt tabbing:

Code: [View]

[video]
windowed = 1
borderless_window = 1

Make sure that your battle and campaign resolution (in-game video option) is the same size as your desktop resolution, else you will have the game in a smaller window instead of your whole screen.