New hot fix

**johnhughthom** · 03-25-2009, 19:06

Originally Posted by Bornslippy

Tried it, and then tried to load a campaign that was crashing before, but not impressed - the LOAD screen now hangs ! I'll try a reboot and see if that helps...

Chances are any save/load fixes will only be for new games, I'd be very surprised if they managed to get corrupted saves going again.

**AussieGiant** · 03-25-2009, 19:09

Before going completely "radio rental" about the patch, I'd start a new game and see what happens, johnhughthom has a good point.

**Bornslippy** · 03-25-2009, 19:18

Err - I beg to differ but that means that anyone in the process of playing one or more games loses all but their current game. I don't know about you but campaign games take days and tend to fit in around the rest of my life. I can understand if already corrupted files are not fixed, but existing ones which are working fine ...?

Also, I have rebooted and the load screen simply hangs. You can only <Continue> your current campaign, which I suppose is something. Trying to <load> simply shows no saved games, and bringing up <Load> after selecting single player hangs. Very poor testing I suggest ?

**Monsieur Alphonse** · 03-25-2009, 19:21

I can start the game now. I just had to copy the original Bink video back to the Empire folder. Have not noticed any improvements but can play the game now.

**AussieGiant** · 03-25-2009, 19:25

Originally Posted by Bornslippy

Err - I beg to differ but that means that anyone in the process of playing one or more games loses all but their current game. I don't know about you but campaign games take days and tend to fit in around the rest of my life. I can understand if already corrupted files are not fixed, but existing ones which are working fine ...?

Also, I have rebooted and the load screen simply hangs. You can only <Continue> your current campaign, which I suppose is something. Trying to <load> simply shows no saved games, and bringing up <Load> after selecting single player hangs. Very poor testing I suggest ?

If they are changing code then the only way to be sure you have a clean shot is to start again. If you have a CTD it could be in the save and it might not. You will never be sure until you start again.

**CanCritter** · 03-25-2009, 19:37

with stat changes ect imagine all previous games are toast becuase things wont sync......will probally have to start new campain

**Bornslippy** · 03-25-2009, 19:52

Originally Posted by AussieGiant

If they are changing code then the only way to be sure you have a clean shot is to start again. If you have a CTD it could be in the save and it might not. You will never be sure until you start again.

Well that's certainly one way, but equally certainly it is not the only way and probably not the best way - how about validating when you load a file ? And a CTD is just poor coding.

**Monsieur Alphonse** · 03-25-2009, 20:27

I can continue and I could load saved games. But CA has introduced a new strange bug. When I save no saved games show up and I can only see the map of north America suggesting I am playing the USA while I am playing Russia. Typing the name of my saved game gives me the normal message that I am replacing an old file and I can save the game. Immediately saving works fine but next turn I had a blank screen again suggesting I was the USA. This can maybe because the fix isn't save game compatible but It would be nice if I was notified about that.

**Veresov** · 03-25-2009, 21:17

Another disappointment! This hot fix fails to fix a lot of hardware incompatibilities with Empire. Despite a full reinstall, Empire still has the crash fleet issue and disbanding a general still CTD's. The game still crashing at the end of the turn with the Microsoft error "Empire has stopped working...".

I've been putting up with a non-functioning game for over 3 weeks. Time to start visit places like Amazon and giving this coaster a one star rating.