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arkhometha / Historical-Project-Mod

A mod for Victoria 2 - Heart of Darkness 3.04
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[BUG] The game stops responding if map cache exists #229

Closed RandomGuy45678 closed 3 years ago

RandomGuy45678 commented 3 years ago

System Information:

Describe the bug A clear and concise description of what the bug is. The windows screen that 'v2game.exe has stopped responding' shows up when the game is opened with the mod. However, clearing Documents\Paradox Interactive\Victoria II\HPM\map\cache fixes this issue. Opening the game with the mod again fills the folder with the cache, which crashes the game the next time it's opened with the mod, though. The crash occurs at the last screen, which says the map is properly initialised.

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Expected behavior A clear and concise description of what you expected to happen. The game should go into the main menu as regular.

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Additional context Add any other context about the problem here. In order to fix a different crash, default.map's line of definitions = "../mod/HPM/map/definition.csv" was changed to definitions = "definition.csv". The map works perfectly fine when the game does open, however.

RandomGuy45678 commented 3 years ago

And now it started always crashing, whether the cache is there or not. I haven't changed anything.

moretrim commented 3 years ago

In order to fix a different crash, default.map's line of definitions = "../mod/HPM/map/definition.csv" was changed to definitions = "definition.csv". The map works perfectly fine when the game does open, however.

If you do that, I believe the game will be using the unmodded definition.csv. Then you get the crash because you’re using the unmodded map definition file together with the mod’s actual map (that’s provided through the other files in HPM/map).

If I got this right, this setup has no hope of working: as you might expect, the unmodded definition.csv is designed to work with the unmodded map; whereas HPM’s own definition file is designed for the mod’s own map. You have to leave HPM’s definitions unchanged, and address whatever issues arise from that.

RandomGuy45678 commented 3 years ago

It did not give the unmodded definition.csv. However, I haven't looked up how to download Victoria 2 mods when I installed HPM and thus installed them the same way as mods for other Paradox games: by putting it in the user directory in Documents. This could be why definition.csv worked right. The game actually stopped crashing consistently (I have not checked with cache intact), although after looking it up, it is related to the fact that my GPU is old. That is the issue.

When the mod did work, it was running really slow, so I'll just play vanilla from now on.