corrupt saves causing crash

[sam.pidgeon]

anyone know why i am getting ctd because off corrupt saves miid campaign im like 94 turns in and now cant load save playing imperial destroyer mod

[KeggeR]

Because the game is broken, and CA essentially forgot about all the people who bought it

[sam.pidgeon]

yeah so looks like new campaign to start then ffs and i hope someone will work out a fix this has happened few imes now really likethis mod CA useless idiots

[KeggeR]

It happens in vanilla without any mods, if only I could get the 1400ish hours back I wasted trying to make it through a world domination campaign in multiplayer Co-op

[sam.pidgeon]

yeah gueess uninstall game then?

[KeggeR]

Originally posted by sam.pidgeon:

yeah gueess uninstall game then?

Pretty chapped over the neglect over this title... but if you do continue playing it despite its inability to work more than 50% of the time, sadly you will never find another like it in the total war series in terms of vastness and options for play. I did manage to get much further in it when I installed windows vista x32, and set steam to play it in offline mode.

It was designed on windows vista, windows 7 was released shortly after the games release. Because of the stock market collapsing in 2008, the game was pushed out the door unfinished. Many last minute major changes were rushed that inherently broke the game, such as steam integration which broke multiplayer. Most of the staff was let go shortly after the title shipped, then they closed the studio down until everything could be figured out.

Napoleon is very close to empire, I suggest that you try it since it actually works, though on a much more limited scale.

[Alwyn]

The solutions which worked for me are here: http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?742554-going-postal-corrupted-savegame-gt-CTD&p=15158364&viewfull=1#post15158364. Good luck!

[sam.pidgeon]

got napolean total war using wwi mod on it and that mod is good

[sam.pidgeon]

Originally posted by Alwyn:

The solutions which worked for me are here: http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?742554-going-postal-corrupted-savegame-gt-CTD&p=15158364&viewfull=1#post15158364. Good luck!

i did try this didnt work i didnt edit the preferences script file for certain mods to run i left it as it is
i have verified cache as well ad nothing changed

[sam.pidgeon]

Originally posted by Alwyn:

The solutions which worked for me are here: http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?742554-going-postal-corrupted-savegame-gt-CTD&p=15158364&viewfull=1#post15158364. Good luck!

did the first thing with preferneces script file still ctd but found lots of mindump files and there is some saying something about out of memory or smething

[sam.pidgeon]

I was using older version of the mod I installed newer version of it now

[sam.pidgeon]

I thought I had newer one already but I didn't

[pgeerkens]

I learned that if you press ESCAPE while the AI is running other faction turns, then subsequent Save files are corrupted - but the corruption may not be apparent for several turns. If you forget something obvious either (A) let the AI finish and Load the AutoSave file; or (B) restart the game after pressing ESCAPE to clear the corruption introduced.

SInce noticing this I have not had ANY corrupt files, though I was encountering it fairly frequenty before that, in several hundred hours of play.

[sam.pidgeon]

hmmmmm

[[LYF]Levi o Lusitano]

Ctrl+Alt+Delete and ending empire trough the task manager everytime seems to reduce chances of mods getting corrupted files by 90%.

[Inardesco]

Simple...

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