Crash to desktop upon loading

[The_Rusty_Trombonist]

I've been playing the game for several days and tried starting it tonight. The game loads to the home screen just fine. When I click "continue game" it goes to the loading screen and as soon as it hits 100% the game closes. I tried the "tracemode" as suggested but every time I put that in the command line I get a windows error. Maybe I'm not doing it right. Just odd because the game worked fine this afternoon. Any help would be appreciated.

[The_Rusty_Trombonist]

Originally Posted by The_Rusty_Trombonist

I've been playing the game for several days and tried starting it tonight. The game loads to the home screen just fine. When I click "continue game" it goes to the loading screen and as soon as it hits 100% the game closes. I tried the "tracemode" as suggested but every time I put that in the command line I get a windows error. Maybe I'm not doing it right. Just odd because the game worked fine this afternoon. Any help would be appreciated.

So I can load other saves. This would lead me to believe the game works fine but the save file is corrupt. Guessing I'm screwed here? I didn't back it up.

[LeiterFanatic]

I was doing just fine with the Steam version. Downloaded the historical stadiums and historical facegens and now get a CTD when I try to advance days

[GDawg]

I have a freeze when trying to 'save and exit' from 3d mode.

[Lukas Berger]

Originally Posted by The_Rusty_Trombonist

So I can load other saves. This would lead me to believe the game works fine but the save file is corrupt. Guessing I'm screwed here? I didn't back it up.

To restore from the automatic backup, do the following:

1) Open the game and on the start screen, click on Settings (or Preferences in OOTP 11-14).

2) Now click on the tab "Troubleshooting".

3) Click "Open folder containing saved games".

4) Now open up the league folder you're wanting to restore.

5) Then select all of the .dat files in the folder and back them up (just in case) by copying them to a temporary folder or creating a zipped file with them

6) Open the folder called "auto-save".

7) In there, select all of the ".dat" files and copy them to the league folder (the parent of the current folder) overwriting all of the ".dat" files in the league folder.

Now start the game and load your league.

[Lukas Berger]

Originally Posted by GDawg

I have a freeze when trying to 'save and exit' from 3d mode.

we seem to have another report of this as well. It's most likely a video card driver issue, so the first thing to try is to make certain those are fully updated.

Which screen displays last, just before the crash, when you're exiting the game?

[Lukas Berger]

Originally Posted by LeiterFanatic

I was doing just fine with the Steam version. Downloaded the historical stadiums and historical facegens and now get a CTD when I try to advance days

If the historical stadiums are the problem it's not something we can really do a lot with unfortunately, as there's too much that can go wrong with mods beyond our control, so we don;t really provide official support for them.

That being said, what error message do you actually get when the crash happens and you try to advance?