Game crashes. No Mod, all DLC

[larsihasi85]

My savegames crashes in the last days. Anyone the same problem (sorry for my bad english)

[Shotgun Merwin]

I've had the exact same problem. I've ran this game for years, no problems at all. Within the last week or two though, randomly the game will crash when i try to load a game. If i try to start the game up and reload, it will 100% of the time crash no matter what save i try to load. The only fix is basically to just start a new game and start all over, then the game will load just fine, until you know, I get the random crash again and the whole process starts all over.

*edit, just discovered if i load a really early save, like the very first one i had, it will load. If i then load the latest save while in this early game, it will load fine*

[HappySack]

The current version doesn't work with saves from older versions, revert if you want to finish your older saves.

[Shotgun Merwin]

Originally posted by HappySack:

The current version doesn't work with saves from older versions, revert if you want to finish your older saves.

It's not that, because i've started games after the new version came out, still run into the same problem. The saves work fine when the game is in the early stages, but once the war progresses it eventually will start crashing every time i try to load from the main menu. It's not that the files are corrupted because if i load from in game, it loads fine.

[HappySack]

I play with mods and the game doesn't ever crash so something else is going wrong.

Have you done any of the normal trouble shooting steps? verify file integrity and disable any anti-viruses before stating the game?

[Shotgun Merwin]

Originally posted by HappySack:

I play with mods and the game doesn't ever crash so something else is going wrong.

Have you done any of the normal trouble shooting steps? verify file integrity and disable any anti-viruses before stating the game?

Yes.

[HappySack]

Copy and paste the crash log.

\Documents\Paradox Interactive\Hearts of Iron IV\crashes\crash.log

[The Grey]

****EDIT FOR WORKAROUND: AS SAID IN OP, YOU CAN LOAD AN EARLY SAVE AND START THE GAME. THEN USING ESC MENU, LOAD THE LATER SAVE FILE.****

I'm having the same problem on the latest version... I'll get 8 hours in and then save file (ironman) is corrupted, is crashes when I try to load the save file. I have disabled cloud saving, on this new playthrough I tried backing up the save file every time I closed the game.
Now it just corrupted again, and somehow whenever I try my backup save files they are corrupting now too. WTF?!

Application: HOI4
Version: Kaiser v1.15.4.32b6
Date/Time: 2025-02-10 18:42:04

Unhandled Exception C0000005 (EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION) at address 0x00007FF639F958D7

Stack Trace:
1 hoi4.exe PHYSFS_swapULE64 (+ 24964055)
2 hoi4.exe PHYSFS_swapULE64 (+ 19233768)
3 hoi4.exe PHYSFS_swapULE64 (+ 8515229)
4 hoi4.exe PHYSFS_swapULE64 (+ 8404075)
5 hoi4.exe PHYSFS_swapULE64 (+ 30202240)
6 hoi4.exe PHYSFS_swapULE64 (+ 30199930)
7 hoi4.exe (function-name not available) (+ 0)
8 hoi4.exe PHYSFS_writeUBE16 (+ 443458)
9 hoi4.exe PHYSFS_writeUBE16 (+ 562)
10 KERNEL32.DLL BaseThreadInitThunk (+ 29)
11 ntdll.dll RtlUserThreadStart (+ 40)
12 ntdll.dll RtlUserThreadStart (+ 40)

[PENIS УКРАИНА]

Originally posted by The Grey:

****EDIT FOR WORKAROUND: AS SAID IN OP, YOU CAN LOAD AN EARLY SAVE AND START THE GAME. THEN USING ESC MENU, LOAD THE LATER SAVE FILE.****

I'm having the same problem on the latest version... I'll get 8 hours in and then save file (ironman) is corrupted, is crashes when I try to load the save file. I have disabled cloud saving, on this new playthrough I tried backing up the save file every time I closed the game.
Now it just corrupted again, and somehow whenever I try my backup save files they are corrupting now too. WTF?!

Application: HOI4
Version: Kaiser v1.15.4.32b6
Date/Time: 2025-02-10 18:42:04

Unhandled Exception C0000005 (EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION) at address 0x00007FF639F958D7

Stack Trace:
1 hoi4.exe PHYSFS_swapULE64 (+ 24964055)
2 hoi4.exe PHYSFS_swapULE64 (+ 19233768)
3 hoi4.exe PHYSFS_swapULE64 (+ 8515229)
4 hoi4.exe PHYSFS_swapULE64 (+ 8404075)
5 hoi4.exe PHYSFS_swapULE64 (+ 30202240)
6 hoi4.exe PHYSFS_swapULE64 (+ 30199930)
7 hoi4.exe (function-name not available) (+ 0)
8 hoi4.exe PHYSFS_writeUBE16 (+ 443458)
9 hoi4.exe PHYSFS_writeUBE16 (+ 562)
10 KERNEL32.DLL BaseThreadInitThunk (+ 29)
11 ntdll.dll RtlUserThreadStart (+ 40)
12 ntdll.dll RtlUserThreadStart (+ 40)

same bro

[Lord_Farquaad]

A solution for this I have found is to load into a new ironman save first, and then load up your desired save from within that new game; seems to work every time