Crash on change to winter textures

[Veneke]

* Please include the version and build information seen in the top right corner of the credits screen.
- It's the latest version, 1.3 I think.

* What problems do you see. E.g. which screen you are looking at, which buttons did you press to repeat the problem. How does the game go wrong, is your crash repeatable?
- Crash on change to winter textures. Works fine if you reload from end of turn autosave.

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- See attached.

This is more an annoying crash than a game-breaking one. It works fine, with the correct textures loaded, once you reload from an autosave. I've only played to winter 1914 at the moment so I'm not sure if it continues on into the other years but I suspect that it does. Help would be appreciated.

[Nebril]

Thanks for detailed report! I will look into it and hopefully provide some kind of fix here.

[Nebril]

Does it happen every time you load this save after starting a game freshly? I wasn't able to reproduce this bug.

Did you do some RAM-intensive operations while playing? If yes, game may not have been able to load the map file to memory and crashed because of this.

[Veneke]

It seems to happen at odd but consistent intervals and, for me, repeats on every new campaign. Well, I've only done two this one and my current one. The reports are actually from my initial runthrough. I wrote up the report on it and then figured that it might just be a one-off error but when it happened in my current campaign as well I decided to submit the report.

The first change to winter it crashed as above and loaded the textures properly after loading the end of turn autosave. The second change to winter (continuing on from the same save) it worked the with no crashes. However, when it changed back to the normal textures it crashed. Just in case that's not clear (and I had to do some acrobatics in my head to figure it out myself after rereading it):

On change to...

...Autumn 1914 - Fine
...Winter 1914 - Crash
Reload
...Spring 1915 - Fine
...Winter 1915 - Fine
...Spring 1916 - Crash
Reload
...Winter 1916 - Not there yet

No, the only thing running was CTGW; I even had the browser closed. Steam might have been open but that isn't exactly a RAM-intensive process.

Edit: Just played through to 1917 and it seems fine. So... I dunno. Hopefully it's just a one-off thing and, even if it's not, it's not exactly game-breaking. Thanks for taking a look at it though.

[Nebril]

Thanks. We will look into it, it doesn't seem to serious, but we will be alerted for any problems with memory management. If there is a quick fix available I will post it here.