UI disappears, unable to load or save - possibly solved

[pitonsnaboca]

I've reached turn 500 in a game and had a hard time to enter the diplomacy screen - everytime I tried to click another civs portrait (or through the diplomacy icon) everything on the borders of the screen would dissappear, entering in a screenshot mode than could only exit through pressing the esc key (main menu) and reloading it.
I managed to enter the diplomacy screen by clicking my own portrait, chose the civ I was aiming for and declared the war I wanted, but...
... now I can't end turn.
Clicking the end turn button (or shift+enter or space bar) does nothing,except for moving my civs portrait downwards and back upwards to it's place (has it does in a normal end turn to every civs portraits).

I do have some mods enabled and was wondering if this happened to anyone who does not have mods installed (so I would know that it was not from the mods... going through 500 turns games just testing for each mod would is kind of... impracticable).

Also, if anyone has any possible solutions I would appreciate.

[tempest.of.emptiness]

Isn't turn 500 the limit for a standard speed game? Maybe the game is over. I haven't had a game last that long so I don't know how the game handles it. Are you sure you didn't get a victory/defeat video (which you might have clicked past), and then a stats screen where you clicked the "one more turn" button? Maybe when time it up the game will let you back to the map but won't let you end turn because there are no more turns to play.

[pitonsnaboca]

Originally posted by tempest.of.emptiness:

Isn't turn 500 the limit for a standard speed game? Maybe the game is over. I haven't had a game last that long so I don't know how the game handles it. Are you sure you didn't get a victory/defeat video (which you might have clicked past), and then a stats screen where you clicked the "one more turn" button? Maybe when time it up the game will let you back to the map but won't let you end turn because there are no more turns to play.

I'm pretty sure the "no turn limit" is checked. Domination is the only victory condition and I'm sure no one was in condition to win it. Nothing happened or was shown that could indicate the end of the game.
I was hoping it wasn't mod related, cause making 500 turns run tests for each mod I have (around 20)... not gonna happen. :/

[donald23]

It kind sounds like you have the turn limit turned on but the time victory turned off TBH...

[pitonsnaboca]

Originally posted by donald23:

It kind sounds like you have the turn limit turned on but the time victory turned off TBH...

Yes, I understand it sounds like it would be that.
I'm pretty sure I had the "no turn limit" on and all victory conditions disabled except domination. Even if, for some reason, I'd forgot the no turn limit option, I would never forget disabling the victory conditions. :/

[pitonsnaboca]

Well, it happened again and I can confirm this has nothing to do with the turn limit option.
This time it happened on turn 261. I reloaded the previous auto-saves and no matter what I do different, that game does the same at turn 261: menus, buttons, mouse icon... everything disappears from the screen, leaving me with a kind of "screenshot vision" of the landscape. I'm able to go around the map, even move the unit that is selected by definition, but without the mouse icon it gets complicated. :P
This time happened after the end turn (meaning, while the AI was making its moves), but I can't identify what is triggering this.

I'm starting new games removing one of the mods at a time, to try and find out which one might be doing this but, as far as I know, it could be a combination of more than one. :/

[pitonsnaboca]

Seems that it was incompatibility between "Simplified Gossip" and "Extended Diplomatic Ribbon" mods.
As far as I've been able to test, disabling one of them (in my case, "Simplified Gossip") should solve this problem.

(just adding this info, for people that might have the same issue in the future)

[Wavestone]

>(just adding this info, for people that might have the same issue in the future)

Thanks, pitonsnaboca for the information about the specific mods! I have similar problem, and will look into it

[KeeperGFA]

Simplified Gossip was the culprit for me as well.