CTD when "Building map." Saves still work

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Alright, so this is a kind of strange one.

Anytime I start a new game it goes to the loading screen before a CTD. It doesn't matter who I play as, map size, or difficulty, quick vs normal start. I CTD every time when it is "building map."

 

But whats strange is that I have successfully played the game since its release without this issue. In fact, I can STILL load saved games and play normally. To my knowledge it didn't update today. Nothing on my computer has changed either.

 

Anyone else experiencing something similar or have a fix?

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Reply #1 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

The problem we have seen is that some people have empty ship designs, no hull, no components, nothing. When the game is building your list of ships it tries to process this and crashes. Exactly as you folks have stated, deleting your ship designs resolves the problem.

We have a "fix" in the 1.02 opt-in where we validate the ship file before we load it. That will keep the crash from happening.

But we still don't know what causes the corrupt ship designs to be made. One player who passed me a broken ship said he created it in a multiplayer game, but we haven't been able to reproduce that as a cause. I'm going to try to create one in the campaign and see if that can be a part of it.

But for now the answer is:

1. On 1.01 or earlier if you delete your custom ships from your My Games directory it should fix this. This solution stinks.

2. On 1.02 (currently available as opt-in) you should be able to play without having to delete anything.

If anyone is still having the issue with 1.02 I would love to get your My Games files so I can see if there is another use case we should be checking for.

Reply #2 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

Thank you for your quick response. I attempted on version 1.02 and it seems to have been fixed.

 

Thanks again

 

 

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