5.3/5.31 Crashes on Friendly/Enemy turns

[Jack30Rack]

This is one of many, Was probably worse on 5.3 than 5.31. But the game is very unstable and crashes during most friendly/enemy turns. I just reload the end of turn save and try to luck my way through. It seems to happen more frequently during terror or night missions.

bug_report_2025-05-14-14h55_gc_5.31.0_unhandled_exception_1.zip

Edited May 14 by Jack30Rack

[Kouki]

12 hours ago, Jack30Rack said:

This is one of many, Was probably worse on 5.3 than 5.31. But the game is very unstable and crashes during most friendly/enemy turns. I just reload the end of turn save and try to luck my way through. It seems to happen more frequently during terror or night missions.

bug_report_2025-05-14-14h55_gc_5.31.0_unhandled_exception_1.zip 12.03 MB · 0 downloads

Thanks for taking the time to register and post a bug report. We'll take a look into this and see what's going on.

[Chris]

15 hours ago, Jack30Rack said:

This is one of many, Was probably worse on 5.3 than 5.31. But the game is very unstable and crashes during most friendly/enemy turns. I just reload the end of turn save and try to luck my way through. It seems to happen more frequently during terror or night missions.

bug_report_2025-05-14-14h55_gc_5.31.0_unhandled_exception_1.zip 12.03 MB · 1 download

Thanks. This is a bit strange - I've loaded all five of the save games in the bug report (they're all different Turn 1 End saves for the terror mission) and I'm not getting the crash at all. I'm testing this in the standard Steam version, which is presumably the same version you're using?

You're saying you get the crashes frequently? You'd definitely expect the game to crash if you loaded the save and pressed End Turn five times?

We're looking into the logs to see if we can try and figure out what the issue is. However, I'd definitely try to do a clean reinstall of X2 and see if that helps (back up your save games first). Instructions on that are here: 

 

 

[Jack30Rack]

I just did a clean install. Its still doing it unfortunately. Pretty much every tactical mission I play will crash, terrors and night missions just seem to do it more often. But RTX 4080 Super, i9 14900k. Running on min graphics and limiting to 60 frames. Still dropping frames and crashing on enemy/friendly turns. drivers up to date. It'll play KCD2 on ultra with no problems. But it definitely feels like a stability issue. Crashes can happen on any enemy's turn, on the reload it might make it through that enemy's turn when it does the same exact action. 

[Chris]

15 hours ago, Jack30Rack said:

I just did a clean install. Its still doing it unfortunately. Pretty much every tactical mission I play will crash, terrors and night missions just seem to do it more often. But RTX 4080 Super, i9 14900k. Running on min graphics and limiting to 60 frames. Still dropping frames and crashing on enemy/friendly turns. drivers up to date. It'll play KCD2 on ultra with no problems. But it definitely feels like a stability issue. Crashes can happen on any enemy's turn, on the reload it might make it through that enemy's turn when it does the same exact action. 

Thanks for the info. I also noticed the game dropping frames when I loaded your save game too, when the gas grenade exploded or when Xenonauts were killed, etc. That's something we'll be looking into in the next few weeks, I think it's because some of the new AI calculations aren't very well optimised. That's unlikely to be related to the crashes though.

Anyway, we'll do our best to get this sorted out for you, although it might take a bit of back-and-forth to figure out the issue. It's actually good news that the game is crashing so consistently for you because it should make it easier to find and fix the problem.

It'd be great if you could switch onto the Experimental branch and see if that crashes for you (instructions on how to switch below). If it does crash, please attach the new crash dump - the experimental builds have extra logs that may give us some more information on what's going wrong.