British Campaign Sabotaged (US Agents perhaps!)

[Didz]

Wft!

I tried to continue my British Campaign this morning and none of the saves I took after defeating the USA will load. Trying to do so just causes ETW to crash to desktop.

I've gone back and tried loading other earlier save and they are fine.

Turn	Date Saved	Time Saved	Load Result
3	25/5/2009	19:33	Successful
10	26/5/2009	00:45	Successful
32	27/5/2009	21:24	Successful
50	29/5/2009	11:25	Successful
59	29/5/2009	23:44	Crashed to Desktop
61	30/5/2009	00:13	Crashed to Desktop
62	30/5/2009	00:21	Crashed to Desktop

The last three files were the Quick Save, Autosave and pre-Loggout manual save from last night, just after I had defeated the USA and recaptured New York.

Error details
AppVer: 1.2.0.0 Mod Ver: 1.2.0.0 Offset: 0073cd45 Code: 0x00000005 Address: 0x00...>b3cd45

Anyone had this sort of thing happen to them before?

[Vlad Tzepes]

My Prussian grand campaign went where yours went. I simply cannot go beyond turn 100.

[Durallan]

what are the filesizes of the ones not working and have you runout of room on any of your harddrives? they are incredibly large savefiles (up to and over 100mb for EACH save..) 10 saves, thats 1gb, so lemme know that could be the problem, although by then windows should have been shouting at you for running out of room, but thats one possibility, if you are like me and a habitual obssessive compuslive save gamer (or just like saving into unique slots so you don't lose alot of progress) then you will find that it will begin to take up lots of room, I had that problem and I was wondering what was causing it and it turned out that the last few saves of mine including quick and auto's filesize was 0k whereas my first few were 70+ mb so yeap, check that!

[Didz]

what are the filesizes of the ones not working and have you runout of room on any of your harddrives?

I only have one hard drive and its just under half-full (206GB used out of 465GB's)

File sizes:

No idea...couldn't find them. They don't seem to be stored in the steamapps folder and I did a C: drive search for files containing 'British' and it found loads of stuff but nothing for ETW.

I've gone back a few turns and started again from the last save that works, so hopefully it won;t happen again. The only thing I can think of that I did yesterday was download the Drummer Mod and the faction specific music file for Britain so I could test it in a custom battle.

That seemed to work fine yesterday, but this morning I decided to load the game without it, as I couldn't recruit a band in America anyway. Just wondering if that upset the saved games at all.

[Mailman653]

Have you had a mod then removed it? It's possible that some country recruited units from this mod but because its no longer there, the game is looking for units that don't exist anymore and could cause the crash.

[Didz]

Have you had a mod then removed it? It's possible that some country recruited units from this mod but because its no longer there, the game is looking for units that don't exist anymore and could cause the crash.

Thats what I figured. The Drummer Mod introduces a band unit into the army mix. I didn't actualy recruit any as I only loaded to mod to try it in a custom battle, but its possible the AI recruited some.

[Durallan]

well if you do want to find your savegames you will find them in windows XP

C:\Documents and Settings\(the user name of your PC or whatever name you log in on)\Application Data\The Creative Assembly\Empire

inside the empire folder will be a folder called Saved_games in that will be all of them.

I put this here as while some people already know it would be useful as a reference for anyone else.