[0.98.62] Crashes in the Great Desert

[WCG]

I started a new game, still using the latest stable version, and everything worked fine for the first 18 in-game days. But now, I'm getting regular crashes. (Note that I have 777 hours in the game, and until this version, I never had any problems at all.)

My guy (just one character) is in the Great Desert, after escaping from Rebirth. He's been in UC territory for a couple of days. But now, the game has started crashing, but not always at the same place or anything. But I can't play for very long before this happens (half-hour to an hour or so?).

This time, I did get a crashdump report, so I'm attaching it here.

[WCG]

FYI, I tried lowering the texture quality to "Medium," but I'm still getting regular crashes. I can play for a little while, but then I hear a tone and the game crashes.

[WCG]

I left the Great Desert, and I haven't had any problems since then (a few hours of gameplay). However, I don't think it's the Great Desert that's the problem, since I ran through the desert (to get to the Holy Nation from Sho-Battai) with no problems.

Furthermore, earlier, I ran clear across the desert to the Waystation to the south, then back to Sho-Battai again. And I didn't have a problem then, either. I've only had these crashes when I'm in the Sho-Battai/Fort Mirage area.

Also, I'm pretty sure I had one of them when I was inside my little house (inside Sho-Battai), looking at research possibilities. So it doesn't seem like a graphics problem, does it? I was wondering if it was all the blowing sand in the desert, but I don't think so.

Oh! ... I just thought of something. There are two 'mods' which come with the game: "Sho-Battai walls" and "Newland" something. I have no idea why they're with the game, and I have no idea if we're supposed to install them or not. So I did not install them... until this game.

I do have them installed now, so is that why I'm getting frequent crashes when I'm near Sho-Battai? It seems likely, doesn't it? After all, I was 16-18 days into the game before I started having problems... after I went to Sho-Battai.

If this is the reason, I don't understand it. I don't crash all the time when I'm near or in Sho-Battai. It just happens very frequently. But I still have no idea what those 'mods' are supposed to do or why they come automatically when the game is installed.

Anyway, I'll test this when I return to the Great Desert, but that's likely to be awhile.

[WCG]

Well, that certainly didn't work! I removed those two 'mods' and tried the game again, only to end up with that save game problem I described here: viewtopic.php?f=9&t=14099

After a (short) while, the game just stops saving. And I can't even get out of the game after that without rebooting my whole computer! I think I'll just re-install those two 'mods' and stay away from Sho-Battai. As bugs go, this one is even worse!

But I don't know... I just loaded the game after removing those two mods. I suppose I could try importing it. But this isn't something I really want to mess with - not for long, at least.

[WCG]

FYI, I tried importing my save into a new game, and it worked fine for a very long time. But I've started to get that same problem again, where the game stops saving and won't even let me exit.

(I haven't been back to the Great Desert, so I don't know if removing those two 'mods' that came with the game fixed that issue.)

[Tri_Rox]

I have this crash, but in other part of map, all times crash in the same location.