Can't load Bao-Bao for the MAD mission

[☠ Asasin ☠]

Well, eff. So far I have only one extremely small glitch, then I go to load the game this morning after hitting up the forums and run into a game breaker.

I'm on the MAD mission, I'm trying to do it on Bao-Bao but the game gets stuck on the loading screen. It's loading the game (I can tell, because they're advertising elections in 12 months and I can hear sound effects), but I never actually make it to the game screen.

I verified the integrity of the game cache, and I also loaded the map in sandbox mode (which worked just fine).

Open to any suggestions.

EDIT:
List of things I've tried:
1. Verify game cache.
2. Load map in sandbox mode, quit to main menu, and load the saved game.
3. Load map in sandbox mode, DON'T quit to main menu, and load the saved game.
4. Deleting the movies folder in the game directory (thought maybe a screwed up cinematic was at fault).
5. Loading my last save prior to this mission (for me, the mission takes place in 1959, and I loaded my previous game from 1956 where I was just starting the "Attract X amount of tourists" objective).
6. Tried loading a different island in sandbox mode just for the hell of it. Guess what happened?!?! Same thing as every other time...
7. Just tried setting the Priority to High and disabled two cores in the processor affinity. Game locked up on the main menu for several seconds. Not like it matters; the game still didn't load. Getting desperate here.
8. Loading the last mission I played on that island (which DOES work) and then trying to load the mission I'm on now.
9. Set .exe to compatibility mode for Vista SP2 and launch with admin privileges.
10. Started a new campaign with a new dynasty on that island, once it loaded, switched back to the original campaign/dynasty.
11. Cycled through about half a dozen maps in sandbox mode (see #6).
12. Updated my video card drivers and restarted the computer. (admittedly should have been my first thing, but I figured one of the workarounds would have worked).
13: Loaded Bao-Bao in sandbox with my current Dynasty. Lowered all the graphics settings and disabled filter effects. No go.
14. Downloaded DX 11.1 from Microsoft's website and ran it (though it already found the update). Also ran the DXSETUP.exe in the Tropico folder. Same issues.
15. Loaded Bao-Bao in Sandbox mode, saved it, quit to main menu, and tried to load the mission. Did not work.
16. Tried changing the resolution (as you can see, I'm gettin' desperate). No luck.
17. Tried loading the game to the difficulty menu, saving (where it prompted me to "name my dynasty" afterwards) and then loading at the next screen, but that didn't work either.

Something weird happened on number 5: It asked me to "name my dynasty", and then when I tried the sandbox fixes again I had a duplicate dynasty.
On number 4: The menus all have a black background (to be expected since I removed the cinematic files), and when I load the mission up to its difficulty menu, the objectives from the previous mission were there.

[Watson]

I'm already up to date so it's isn't that unfortunately.

[☠ Asasin ☠]

Origineel geplaatst door Citizen_LizKane:

I updated my DirectX and it worked just fine. I would try that if you haven't already.

Might be a stupid question, but how do you go about doing this? Just running the tools in the redist folder for the game?

Origineel geplaatst door BEAR II GRYLLS:

This is ridiculous. I am used to game's not working properly (pretty much every EA game published), however at least the issues in those don't prevent you from playing the game entirely. Bad form by Haemimont/Kalypso. Doesn't seem any work-arounds are fixing it, hopefully they will release an update very soon with a proper fix.

I know, it reminds me of Big Rigs... Or ESO on launch, when people were stuck in the starting area because they couldn't open a door they needed to.

EDIT: Downloaded DX 11.1 from Microsoft's website and ran it (though it already found the update). Also ran the DXSETUP.exe in the Tropico folder. Same issues.

[☠ Asasin ☠]

Bump before I go to read this booooring book.

[Beardhammer, Hammerer of Beards]

I had this happen to me on another map. I Loaded up the autosave from the last mission I completed, finished it again and could continue.

EDIT: And maybe if I had actually paid more attention to your first post I would've seen you had already tried that.

[☠ Asasin ☠]

Tried loading the game to the difficulty menu, saving (where it prompted me to "name my dynasty" afterwards) and then loading at the next screen, but that didn't work either.

EDIT: Beardhammer, it's alright lol. The list is quite extensive at this point in time so I won't fault you for missing that.

[MaxDoomSWE]

stuck in loading screen as well. wanted to play the campaign a second time but a bit into i saved, shut down the game and a few hours later when i was going to load it again. then i was stuck. besided that i have had 2 crashes in 35 hours of gameplay, which in my book is very good, compared to other newly released games.

[Watson]

You're one of the lucky ones then. I haven't even completed the game yet :(

[☠ Asasin ☠]

Up until this point I didn't have any crashes and just one glitch. Now I can't even play. And I don't think they updated it. Way to go, Devs.

[Watson]

When I first started playing it, it kept on crashing after about 5 minutes due to drivers crashing (not sure why as my rig is supposed to be able to play it with ease) however I notched down the graphics a little and it sorted that issue. Other than that it was working fine for me, although I did have to use the work-around once to get on to Bao Bao on a previous mission.

[Juggalo Furry]

Im stuck in same place :(

[Ratchet]

It's most odd that some people get Bao Bao to work with my workaround and some don't.
Did anyone who still can't load Bao Bao try to restart the campaign and play the missions vice versa?

[☠ Asasin ☠]

Origineel geplaatst door LkB Blackflash:

It's most odd that some people get Bao Bao to work with my workaround and some don't.
Did anyone who still can't load Bao Bao try to restart the campaign and play the missions vice versa?

I did not want to play through the whole campaign again (and I shouldn't have to). I did reload the previous mission and complete it again. That did not fix anything.

[Ratchet]

I understand that. I expected they would've fixed it by now, however. Really disappointing.

[Juggalo Furry]

Whats weird is for me MAD wont load but its actually the other island that wont load not bao bao i just finished there :\ so problem is more than that map

[☠ Asasin ☠]

Origineel geplaatst door LkB Blackflash:

I understand that. I expected they would've fixed it by now, however. Really disappointing.

Agreed.
I don't know how many times I've repeated myself but it's been a week already, so I'm just really frustrated. The game should never have been launched with such a gamebreaking bug included, and with so many people reporting having encountered the bug, I have a difficult time believing it was discovered during whatever beta testing the developers conducted.
But the fact that it's still in the damned game a week after its release is unexcusable. And I understand that Kalypso is not a US company, but they shouldn't have released glitched out garbage in a country about to celebrate a four day weekend. The glitch is bad enough; thanks for giving me three days of R&R to get increasingly frustrated by the fact that I can't play a game I pre-ordered as soon as pre-orders went out.

Origineel geplaatst door Khunti:

Whats weird is for me MAD wont load but its actually the other island that wont load not bao bao i just finished there :\ so problem is more than that map

Do me a favor: Go to the Tropico 5 folder, delete the videos folder (don't worry, you can get them back by verifying the game cache from the game's properties in the Steam Library). Then load up the save game to the difficulty menu. Does it show mission objectives from the past mission? Mine did once.