Hi there,
I'm not sure if anyone experienced this before - the game loads perfectly fine, by crashes to the desktop after the splash screen (i.e. before the the region loads). I have tried to diagnose the problem by clearing out the plugins folder, and the problem still persisted.
I removed the region that I last played, and the game loaded fine. I narrowed down to the city I last saved the day before, and voila, it is the city that is causing the game to abort when loading the region.
May I know if there is any way to salvage this city tile? It is a 4x4 and it's almost full (yea, Murphy's Law having it's way)... just wondering.
Thanks for the help.
Hey Teddy
Quote from: teddyrised on October 11, 2011, 02:37:19 PM
... I'm not sure if anyone experienced this before
Yes I have. Once when I plopped a PEG seaport then removed it from my plugins before demolishing it from my city. The other was a modded opera house that was plopped then removed from my plugins before demolishing. The resolution? Put the building back into the city. Then demolish. Then save. Then finally take it out of my plugins.
There are probably other reasons - but those are two instances where I had the same problem. My suggestion would be to do a search for "CTD" and you might find other causes and cures.
Good Luck
- Jim
<edit> I need to read the question better. I think two tree controllers loaded simultaneously will cause a CTD before the region loads. I think that I'd also check terrain mods as well. More than one might do it too although I'm not positive off hand.
I strongly doubt any plugins are actually causing the problem, given the fact that I have not installed any new plugins nor removed any since I last saved the game. I suspect that the city tile suffered a corrupted save during the process, and is therefore unplayable and causes the region to crash upon loading.
When I remove the offending city tile, the region loads perfectly fine (so does the other cities in the affected region, without CTD). I tried placing the city file in another folder (/Regions/Downloads/) and reimport it into the region. The reimporting process also caused a CTD.
Quote from: teddyrised on October 11, 2011, 07:31:39 PM
... I suspect that the city tile suffered a corrupted save during the process, and is therefore unplayable and causes the region to crash upon loading...
Bummer. Sorry I could not help. Take Care
- Jim
Based on what you're saying, if you don't have some previous save of the city, you cannot recover it. Keeping backups of your regions, especially the city tiles you've put a lot of work into, is a very good idea. How many times have you heard "Keep a backup?" ;)