Same issue here. got to 115AD and refuses to go past this. I turned off saving and played for a few hours after hoping that I would be able to save later on. Nope, tried saving and still crashed...2 hours gameplay gone. :(

Extended Timeline - ET - Unofficial Patch and Gameplay Changes try this mod its own steam workshop. my game has not crashed with it its really a unofficial patch for et.

Originally posted by Anthony:

Extended Timeline - ET - Unofficial Patch and Gameplay Changes try this mod its own steam workshop. my game has not crashed with it its really a unofficial patch for et.

I got this mod on your advice. It didn't help at all! If I save a game that's been going on for more than 50 years it still crashes me out.

Most of the discussion about the mod takes place on Discord nowadays, but I'll bring you here up to date on what's going on too.

I have been unable to find a reliable way to reproduce these crashes, which makes it hard for me to debug them. Some errors have been found and fixed, but so far these don't seem to have fixed everything.

Hi, try starting the game in 190, i´ve read that most of the crashes take place around this year. In my case it was in 210.

Originally posted by qweytr:

Most of the discussion about the mod takes place on Discord nowadays, but I'll bring you here up to date on what's going on too.

I have been unable to find a reliable way to reproduce these crashes, which makes it hard for me to debug them. Some errors have been found and fixed, but so far these don't seem to have fixed everything.

Same problem here. Started my game at 2. AD and everything was fine till 51 AD.

My crashes occur when I try to manually save or autosave a few years into my Roman Empire run sometime in the 60s A.D.

It has been crashing in special dates. I noticed that June of 78 year always crash the game if the game saves. I just can't play further. Any revert to previous versions doesn't help at all.

The crash log:

Application: EUIV
Version: EU4 v1.34.5.0 Sweden
Date/Time: 2022-12-13 06:39:18

Unhandled exception C0000005 (EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION) at address 0x00007FF6C38CB561

Stack Trace:
1 eu4.exe (function-name not available) (+ 0)
2 eu4.exe (function-name not available) (+ 0)
3 eu4.exe (function-name not available) (+ 0)
4 eu4.exe (function-name not available) (+ 0)
5 eu4.exe (function-name not available) (+ 0)
6 eu4.exe (function-name not available) (+ 0)
7 eu4.exe (function-name not available) (+ 0)
8 eu4.exe (function-name not available) (+ 0)
9 eu4.exe (function-name not available) (+ 0)
10 eu4.exe (function-name not available) (+ 0)
11 eu4.exe (function-name not available) (+ 0)
12 eu4.exe (function-name not available) (+ 0)
13 eu4.exe (function-name not available) (+ 0)
14 eu4.exe (function-name not available) (+ 0)
15 eu4.exe (function-name not available) (+ 0)
16 eu4.exe (function-name not available) (+ 0)
17 eu4.exe (function-name not available) (+ 0)
18 eu4.exe (function-name not available) (+ 0)
19 eu4.exe (function-name not available) (+ 0)
20 eu4.exe (function-name not available) (+ 0)
21 eu4.exe (function-name not available) (+ 0)
22 eu4.exe (function-name not available) (+ 0)
23 eu4.exe (function-name not available) (+ 0)
24 eu4.exe (function-name not available) (+ 0)
25 eu4.exe PHYSFS_writeSLE64 (+ 539746)
26 eu4.exe PHYSFS_writeSLE64 (+ 142099)
27 KERNEL32.DLL BaseThreadInitThunk (+ 16)
28 ntdll.dll RtlUserThreadStart (+ 43)
29 ntdll.dll RtlUserThreadStart (+ 43)

same herre after i load the save i can paly a few months and then its crashing on autosave again

It's very weird. I tried to understand why this bug happens and uploaded the Alternate Future mod. And it works! But only for next 10 days... It's really weird how new mode affects on possibility to save without crashing...

After several crash, and attemps to finds out what causes them i was able to conclude this :

First : if you attemps to relase a nation through your country like with "create a subject from some of your province" or if you use the "return button" from one of your province it will lead to a crash on save

Second : DO NOT CREATE ANY VASSAL THROUGTH PEACE TREATY, its *may* (not every time) cause the game to crash, but its definitly something that can make it crash

Third : its somehow to some degree linked to the native in america (Or at least i believe it to be the case since in some instance i was able to gain few years on my save by "fixing them")

Fourth : The eternal and only culprit is the ai, if you turn it off, no crash happen, if you integrate / annex the whole world same thing, homever, turning the ai on and off every december may help the first couple of year but after a while she will do her thing and make the game crash when you save whatever you do


Side note :
1)
The Aztect / nahual area in particular is VERY LIKELY to create vassal and as such the first initial crash, you can attemps to force the ai to integrate them or to remove them, but yet again it will not completly remove the threat of crash

2)
For my part i was already able to "save" a little bit more of my save game by doing this but after that the ai got me by doing her thing


3)
I started this game by years 2, as a custom chalcedonian nation in NA (with other custom nation in the world),the game started to crash around 337 - 345, (my previous and first game on this version was with the same setup but without one submod (is not linked as far i know to the crashes) and crashed 100 years earlier in plus of me being able to still play after the some crashes)

4)
I believe that the date of crash change based on wether or not the ai can or want to do her thing or not

[pdx_localize.cpp:1063]: Error in localization value! Key: "dynasties.37.d", Error: "Couldn't find Latin1 character for c4 81"

Where can I find c4 81?

A solution before the update: https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/threads/mod-extended-timeline.740866/post-28634641. It works for me.

The mod has been updated. Let me know if you still encounter the problem with the new version. I can't be sure it has been fixed since I never experienced it myself.