Zinn Posted October 19, 2012 Share Posted October 19, 2012 Farm map tends to crash randomly for me during the enemy turn. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
svidangel Posted October 19, 2012 Share Posted October 19, 2012 Same thing here, second map on my first playthrough. 16.1, downloaded yesterday evening PST (not through Desura). Haven't actually seen more than one civilian, and can just catch the edge of the crashed UFO on a mostly empty green map before the game CTDs consistently on a particular turn. I have the file saved if it is needed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
raziel1981 Posted October 19, 2012 Share Posted October 19, 2012 i also had crash on the farm map. A Seb was shooting towards a civillian and then the game CTDed. I'm guessing it was the civ's motion that triggered the CTD Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gribbstar Posted October 19, 2012 Share Posted October 19, 2012 Crashing on farm maps also, halted my ironman progress which thinking about it was probably a silly idea to start with I last 4 turns or so and then straight to desktop during hidden movement. I wish I could say more about the situation but the hidden part kind of speaks for itself. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lasken Posted October 19, 2012 Share Posted October 19, 2012 Like someone previous witnessed I have also seen a couple of times that just before the game crashes an invisible NPC moves towards a fence, presumably to vault over it, and then instantly the game crashes. Not game breaking since you can just load the game, but when it happens several times in a row it does get a bit frustrating. Also v16.1 16 Oct. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bowmark Posted October 19, 2012 Share Posted October 19, 2012 I just purchased the game yesterday from Desura and I am having the same problem. My login screen says V16 12 October though. I tried a verify files but I dont think I have 16.1 for some reason. Same issue though, 2nd map in and it is a farm screen. After first turn of moving my guys out of the skyranger I hit end turn and go right to desktop. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LesserAngel Posted October 19, 2012 Share Posted October 19, 2012 Yeah, with 16.1, I still get a crash on the farm map I couldn't see what caused it though, happened during Hidden Movement. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Posted October 19, 2012 Share Posted October 19, 2012 We'll be releasing a quick .exe based patch for this shortly, but you'll need V16 (Desura should have it now, or you can download the standalones). If it works we'll roll out a full Desura update too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buzzles Posted October 19, 2012 Share Posted October 19, 2012 We'll be releasing a quick .exe based patch for this shortly, but you'll need V16 (Desura should have it now, or you can download the standalones). If it works we'll roll out a full Desura update too. As I'm curious, what was the issue in the end? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SirAstral Posted October 20, 2012 Share Posted October 20, 2012 As I'm curious, what was the issue in the end? I would like to know too. Removing Civilians from my Farmland maps seems to have stopped all the crashes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
erebus2075 Posted October 20, 2012 Share Posted October 20, 2012 We'll be releasing a quick .exe based patch for this shortly, but you'll need V16 (Desura should have it now, or you can download the standalones). If it works we'll roll out a full Desura update too. nice, will be keeping an eye out for it does this mean we need to remove the 16.1 reinstal 16. and then apply the patch? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gribbstar Posted October 20, 2012 Share Posted October 20, 2012 I would like to know too. Removing Civilians from my Farmland maps seems to have stopped all the crashes. Is there a tutorial for this procedure please? Would dearly love to play a bit more Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Posted October 20, 2012 Share Posted October 20, 2012 https://dl.dropbox.com/u/26290309/V16.1%20to%20V16.2.exe Patch there, please apply it and see if the crashes stop. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Giovanni Posted October 20, 2012 Share Posted October 20, 2012 As I'm curious, what was the issue in the end? Some simple, yet tricky to be found, mis-set spectre files for civilians. Our xml validation tool saw them as OK, as actually they were valid to the language specifics, but the game did left out the vault animations in the loading process. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Posted October 20, 2012 Share Posted October 20, 2012 The issue is a missing animation for the civilians in their soldier_spectre.xml files. They didn't have a vault animation set, so when they tried to vault a wall the game couldn't read the animation and crashed. V16.1 added the vault animation code but I added it after the </state> tag had already closed the area you're meant to set animations in, so that had no effect. The patch above just updates all the offending soldier_spectre.xml files. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gribbstar Posted October 20, 2012 Share Posted October 20, 2012 Patched and playing, will report back asap. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gribbstar Posted October 20, 2012 Share Posted October 20, 2012 No Farm crash! Good work guys, many thanks. Still have invisible civs and no music on the farm maps though but guess you know about that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gribbstar Posted October 20, 2012 Share Posted October 20, 2012 Spoke too soon, it crashed on hidden movement again literally the turn after I posted my last comment. Will get a fresh install and patch it up again just to be sure it's nothing I've done wrong. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Giovanni Posted October 20, 2012 Share Posted October 20, 2012 If you still have invisible civilians then maybe the patch wasn't applied correctly.. Let us know how it goes with the fresh install and re-patch! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Posted October 20, 2012 Share Posted October 20, 2012 Hmm, the patch doesn't seem to work. We'll keep looking into it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blackhorse Posted October 20, 2012 Share Posted October 20, 2012 Hmm. Mine seems to be working. Had a farm mission that had been crashing repeatedly. I applied the patch and am now 5 turns beyond where I was able to get to before. Will let you know if it goes tango uniform. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blackhorse Posted October 20, 2012 Share Posted October 20, 2012 Now however it seems that the Bases, Research, Workshop and Xenopedia tabs on the Geoscape have been disabled? They worked before. Not sure if this is patch related or not. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blaster Posted October 20, 2012 Share Posted October 20, 2012 I suspected the problem was with caesan vaulting as well, so I added a vault animation set to alien/none/soldier_spectre.xml, and haven't had this CTD after quite a bit of testing. I'm using v16.2 on a fresh game. It's worked for me so far--really hope this is where the problem is! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tass Posted October 20, 2012 Share Posted October 20, 2012 (edited) Chris's patch updated 11 files.. I can post the checksums as well if you want to be super-paranoid. Were those the 11 you expected to update Chris? 842748774775542e79527930cb24794f *assets\units\civilian\arctic\snowcivilian2\soldier_spectre.xml 6b17ba98ca0a8c46e6f8867014d2f677 *assets\units\civilian\desert\civmale1\soldier_spectre.xml 81f7395cb1f3c68c98570fd10e00722d *assets\units\civilian\farm\malefarmer2\soldier_spectre.xml a6faf636d526f6a466bfe1613163d6f5 *assets\units\civilian\farm\malefarmer3\soldier_spectre.xml 23c99dc3687a73136c1b847f648578b1 *assets\units\civilian\farm\none\soldier_spectre.xml cbe65a7b3a2305d1e858a4e30f66bef7 *assets\units\civilian\industrial\civmale1\soldier_spectre.xml cd27a2ce461dcc4ff067ffbb838ad8d2 *assets\units\civilian\industrial\civmale2\soldier_spectre.xml b3ec3fc3822d2899a1eb15601cce2bc0 *assets\units\civilian\industrial\none\soldier_spectre.xml 282c551e99f2876317a1162c81574696 *assets\units\civilian\middleeast\civmale1\soldier_spectre.xml 8a7b1b429ecbae4365eb903439c0626b *assets\units\civilian\town\civmale1\soldier_spectre.xml 5774ece5d6545234d509f087b1fc841d *assets\units\civilian\town\none\soldier_spectre.xml Edited October 20, 2012 by tass Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Posted October 20, 2012 Share Posted October 20, 2012 Yes. New fix - go into \assets\units\alien\caesan\guardsupport\weapon.AlienHeavyPlasmaRifle\ and delete the soldier_spectre.xml That should fix the crashes. Also, Blaster, I think what you've done is probably a good failsafe too. If anyone is sufficiently technically-minded to operate a text editor, please go into /assets/units/aliens/none/ and open up soldier_spectre.xml. Paste the lines below at the bottom of the file, BEFORE the </state> tag (won't work if you paste it after that). <anim src="units/alien/none/vault_w" anim="vault_NY"/> <anim src="units/alien/none/vault_e" anim="vault_K"/> <anim src="units/alien/none/vault_n" anim="vault_E"/> <anim src="units/alien/none/vault_s" anim="vault_D"/> <anim src="units/alien/none/vault_nw" anim="vault_ENY"/> <anim src="units/alien/none/vault_ne" anim="vault_EK"/> <anim src="units/alien/none/vault_sw" anim="vault_DNY"/> <anim src="units/alien/none/vault_se" anim="vault_DK"/> See if that works. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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