Unexpected CDT !

[R@S]

It might be caused by a mine, or a grenade thrown from a weird position. Is there an old mine you placed on that map that could cause this? Or have you or the enemies used a smoke grenade, those are very proned to cause a CTD. The log only indicates that it has to do with mines or grenades, nothing else. Try leaving the sector through the exit points before it happens, there's no other fix for it, sorry.

[Nat_Crelk]

I've checked it another time :
I don't have left a mine or something like that (booby-traps for ex.) on the map ; plus, there's no one using a smoke nade.
I'm on CGL 5 or 6 (can't remember) and the CTD appears when the fight goes on with regular gov troops only AND when there's some special gov forces with too.

And after many tries, I've figured out myself that the bug appears both IN and AFTER the fight.
I mean, it appears sometimes WHEN the fight goes on and the other times when the fight is OVER.

I've checked out the items found on the bodies and the only nade I found was the "little one". No mine, no smoke and no other nades.
I've tried to leave the sector before it happens. But in that case, the game crashes when I click on the "strategical map" button or right after I click on Strat Map for leaving the area ahead to another place.
I've finally tried to leave and re-enter the sector but the crash still happens.
The only way I hadn't tested it is to search bodies as soon as they fall onto the ground.
But there is nearly 20 to 25 corpses (at the end of the fight) : very hard to loot fast or ASA they fall.

I've finally decided not to occurs or take part in the fight and minding my own business... and surprisingly : no more CTD !
So I've let the fight happened and that's all.

I'll give you a feedback if that happens again.

Thanks for the assist.

Nat

[linhphap]

Very sorry to report another CTD because I really enjoy the BSM and highly praise the work by R@s and all the other members.
I started a new game with BSM 1.4 after a full reinstall under Vista.
I've just finished to fight off the natives, rebels and olvega gunmen in the "defend Ciudad de Oro" mission. Killing the last of them brings the autosave, end of battle, etc, and I can freely speak to the people, get access to inventory, the "leave" switch is blinking, ... : everything peacefull, but no entry in the log ("mission accomplished, time to go...") and in the strategic map, the town still appears in red. Trying to leave the city brings the CTD. Any ideas ?

[R@S]

Originally Posted by linhphap

I've just finished to fight off the natives, rebels and olvega gunmen in the "defend Ciudad de Oro" mission. Killing the last of them brings the autosave, end of battle, etc, and I can freely speak to the people, get access to inventory, the "leave" switch is blinking, ... : everything peacefull, but no entry in the log ("mission accomplished, time to go...") and in the strategic map, the town still appears in red. Trying to leave the city brings the CTD. Any ideas ?

Did you talk to the Mayor before leaving. Be sure that you don't accidentally take over the city for yourself when you do, that will fail the mission.

What does the log say about the CTD?

It could have to do with the new capturing system, I would have to do some testing myself to figure that out. Since I made the Mayor appear earlier, he should appear around this time in vanilla, it could be related to the script getting stuck because of that. I'll test it and will try to fix it if that is the case.

[linhphap]

The only dialog option with the mayor is "farewell". But earlier in the game I took Olvega for myself : when dealing with Raul Mangusta, somehow the rebels got caught in the firefight and I had to inish them off (save the ones en route to CdO...). Don't know if this can interfere ?
I'll chekc the logs.

[R@S]

Luckily I was fairly close to this event in my current test session, so I now see what you mean with this issue. I don't get a CTD, but that could be related to vista being a piece of $hit.

I fought the defense of CdO, killed off both waves as well, and I got the attack repelled in the mission page before the battle with the second wave was even finished. I killed the last rebels and when I exited to the global map I noticed that the town was red. I could leave the area and go to Artrigo and get the reward. I loaded a save when I still was in CdO to check it out and I noticed a few guys wearing the "native" uniforms. I started killing them, and here's the weird thing, I din't enter combat mode when I did, they just stood there without responding. Once I killed them all, there were about five of them, the city was orange(neutral) and I could take over the city for myself by talking to the Mayor.

I checked the log while the game was still running, and the only thing that could explain this behavior is the old GUMID error. It seems the engine replaces a few rebels with other characters, in this case the natives, and that leads to unwanted situations like this. I've been trying to fix this issue for a long time but haven't been able to. I don't know if it's an engine limitation issue or something else I've done with the script. I've heard from my Russian friends that one shouldn't add too many new characters and I've added a lot, this could be the reason. I'll keep trying to fix it, in the meantime you will have to either load from a previous save and fight the battle again, or start a new campaign, I think that's the only solution right now.

[linhphap]

Thank you, you are right, as always. I noticed a "native bruiser", an armed non hostile character in native uniform. Tried to shoot her, but didn't notice the shift from red to orange in the strategic map (and besides, she's so cute I didn't feel like wasting her!). After shooting her, I could talk to the mayor, take over the city, and leave it wihtout CTD. but before reaching the next town I get the "mission failed" message, the city reverts from blue to orange and I have to come back and talk to the mayor again. (All the militias I recruited the first time had vanished : waste of money!)
Having shot one hundred ennemies to end in a mission failure is a bit disappointing : how do you explain that you succeeded even before the last rebel was killed ? Is it a respawn issue ? (I experienced a first CTD when playing the mission whith two waves of bandits trying to steel Taco's briefcase : after a reload, the second wave arrived smoothly and I forgot about it.)
Any chance of success if I reload the second wave only, or should I really start the whole battle again ?