Buzzles Posted October 20, 2012 Share Posted October 20, 2012 (edited) Yes. New fix - go into \assets\units\alien\caesan\guardsupport\weapon.AlienHeavyPlasmaRifle\ and delete the soldier_spectre.xml Surely it shouldn't be that one causing the CTD's though, as the farm crashes happen from the very start of the game when aliens with HeavyPlasmaRifles shouldn't be spawning. Unless of course it's just a quirk of how the game handles sprites and loads them all in even if it's not using them. Edited October 20, 2012 by Buzzles Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Danxeno Posted October 20, 2012 Share Posted October 20, 2012 am using Chis's patch V16.2 and followed both suggestions Chris posted. Still getting crashes on Farm. (Grounded/undamaged light scout with ceasan aliens. Not getting a crash dump. Best I can do if needed is send the autosave that occurs right before ground combat begins Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
svidangel Posted October 20, 2012 Share Posted October 20, 2012 Not sure if it helps, but the crashes seem to happen on the same turn unless I manage to blitz and wipe the aliens out. I can spread out for two turns and maybe see an alien, CTD at the end of turn two. Or I load the autosave and just leave everyone inside the chinook. Same result, CTD end of turn two. If I can manage to kill the aliens before the end of the turn it crashes, I seem to get by. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Posted October 20, 2012 Share Posted October 20, 2012 Posted an updated patch in the V16.1 Released thread on the announcements forum that should hopefully fix it this time. Give it a try! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TNoyce Posted October 21, 2012 Share Posted October 21, 2012 Chris, If you're talking about the 16.1.2 patch, unfortunately I still have crashes with that patch applied on the Farm map. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jedi883 Posted October 21, 2012 Share Posted October 21, 2012 I found with the farm map if you go into \assets\missiontypeprops_gc.xml and goto <Tileset name="farm"> <MissionType name="Common" civilianCount="0" friendlyAICount="0"> and put the ai and civ count to zero i have so far had no crashs on farm map and have done about 5 runs on farm map with no crash's. When before every time the farm map crashed for me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aklyon Posted October 21, 2012 Share Posted October 21, 2012 I wouldn't call that a great fix, but its certainly a usable workaround for people with text editors. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jedi883 Posted October 21, 2012 Share Posted October 21, 2012 Ye it was not meant as a fix just a workaround until the patch for the crash is done. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Mess Posted October 22, 2012 Share Posted October 22, 2012 Thanks for the workaround! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MasterArmadillo Posted October 23, 2012 Share Posted October 23, 2012 I wouldn't call that a great fix, but its certainly a usable workaround for people with text editors. I thought you could edit these XML files with notepad, am I wrong? (notepad displays them but a bit messy, do they still work if saved in notepad?) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jedi883 Posted October 23, 2012 Share Posted October 23, 2012 Editing with notepad is fine you can just right click on it and it should say edit and with that xml it's not really that messy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrFroho Posted October 23, 2012 Share Posted October 23, 2012 Just got this game today, was enjoying the beginning, but every time around the third the third UFO, I get a farm mission and crash within a few turns without fail. Tried a couple work-arounds recommended here but nothing seems to work Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Olezero Posted October 23, 2012 Share Posted October 23, 2012 Just got this game today, was enjoying the beginning, but every time around the third the third UFO, I get a farm mission and crash within a few turns without fail. Tried a couple work-arounds recommended here but nothing seems to work I did the workaround with removing all the civvies as well as friendly AI from the farm map, and haven't had a crash so far after 20-30missions on that map. Its pretty simple, just navigate to the Xenonauts asset folder (usually C:\Program Files (x86)\Desura\Common\xenonauts\assets for a standard desura install), and edit "missiontypeprops_gc.xml" with a text editor. Change the following: <Tileset name="farm"> <MissionType name="Common" civilianCount="3" friendlyAICount="1"> to <Tileset name="farm"> <MissionType name="Common" civilianCount="0" friendlyAICount="0"> You can do it for all the Tileset's, to remove the civilians / friendly AI on all the maps if you want. Personally i found that Notepad++ works really well for editing XML files. You can find it here: http://notepad-plus-plus.org/download/v6.2.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jedi883 Posted October 23, 2012 Share Posted October 23, 2012 Cheers for posting it in a bit more detail then I did phones are a pain to type on Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Olezero Posted October 23, 2012 Share Posted October 23, 2012 Sorry for ninjaing the fiks Jedi883. Hehe. All credits to Jedi883 for finding the workaround Also, thanks for finding it! Made my game a whole lot more enjoyable. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jedi883 Posted October 23, 2012 Share Posted October 23, 2012 Well all I need to do now is figure out how to fix that annoying crash when in aircombat when engaging 3 UFOs 8/10 times crashes to desktop Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrFroho Posted October 23, 2012 Share Posted October 23, 2012 Ah ok thanks guys. I tried that fix initially and kept loading my game and it didnt work, I just had to start a new game and it seems to be fine now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Omar Nelson Posted October 23, 2012 Share Posted October 23, 2012 (edited) Im still having a farm crash with 17.1 Edit: Tried the work around and that did not work either. Edited October 23, 2012 by Omar Nelson Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jedi883 Posted October 23, 2012 Share Posted October 23, 2012 give the 16.1 workaround a go see if that Fixs issue just make sure to start a new game or load a save that wasn't on the farm map I dont know if that will fix the issue as I haven't downloaded 17.1 yet just make sure you save the missiontypeprops file before editing it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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