Crashes--lots of crashes

[Revolutionarythought]

Greetings guys,

I purchased this game quite a long time ago--maybe a year. I played the game quite a bit until I patched it for the first time, at which point the game would crash quite a bit so I eventually lost interest.

So queue about a week ago. I reinstall the game, patch to 1.14 and start playing again.

Unfortunately, the crashes started again. I would get YEARS into campaigns and the game would crash. This was very annoying. So I started saving my games every turn, which was also very annoying.

All is well and good I thought--until tonight.

Tonight I had the game crash on me during the winter of 1863 in my current campaign. No big deal, I'll just reload from the last save. Except now when I reboot the game and select "load game" the game crashes. So I reboot my computer, and try again. Guess what? Yep, hitting "load game" causes the game to explodercate.

So I've got a number of questions here:
1. How is a crash during a game corrupting the ENTIRE program?
2. Is this a known issue?
3. Is there a workaround here?
4. Could it be related to running the game in 64bit Vista

I mean I really LIKE this game, and I'd like to be able to play it. As it is though, its so unstable that it makes me want to beat myself in the head with a hammer.

[Pocus]

The game is not unstable, an average player will encounter a bug every 100 hours or so, if the bug is related to the program and not your computer.
Now, the bugs you get can be hardware related. Or you are one of the few players stuck with bad luck with AACW.

For the problem of Load Games crashing the game, delete your Saves directory. If you want to salvage your current game, then you'll have to post all your Saves directory in one compressed archive somewhere so that one of us check what is the corrupted game.

[Benihana]

Tonight I had the game crash on me during the winter of 1863 in my current campaign. No big deal, I'll just reload from the last save. Except now when I reboot the game and select "load game" the game crashes. So I reboot my computer, and try again. Guess what? Yep, hitting "load game" causes the game to explodercate.

Have you tried reverting to the turn before and trying to play? If the game state was saved with something that is resulting in the crash, every time you load...

I haven't had your experience, but I am running on an older laptop that likes to overheat due to the graphics (amusing I know), so I turned off the largest terrain loading and haven't had an issue since . Have you tried playing with in game options and the separate settings program in the AACW directory?

[Revolutionarythought]

To be honest, I'm reluctant to think this is a hardware issue. Trust me when I say that my computer is more than capable of running the game--or should be--on its highest settings.

The only thing I can think is that my direct X 10 card causes the game to die.

But this doesn't seem likely given when I see the errors. Most often the errors I see are related to the AI during the day processing phase of the game. These errors are either nameless--or more often report a problem with the logic of AI movement failing.

I've also gotten previously memory errors... on a computer running 8 gigs... and no none of my ram is bad.

After reading your responses I can only surmise that this is a 64bit compat issue, or there is something seriously wrong with the Matrix Games digital download of the ACCW client.

I'll try installing the game on 32bit XP and report back.

-R

[Pocus]

If you get AI error messages, then it is within the game engine indeed. Can you send me at support@ageod.com the log directory and associated save when you get one?

[Gray_Lensman]

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[MrT]

its not a 64bit issue thats for sure. That i can vouch for.