Sid Meier's Civilization V

Sid Meier's Civilization V

SMAN's World at War Scenario - The War to End All Wars (V2)
S-Man  [developer] 22 Nov, 2018 @ 7:43pm
If the game crashes on you - either loading the scenario or a saved game....
As the old saying goes, "If first you don't succeed, try, try, try again...."

Not trying to be flippant, but this Scenario is built on a huge map, and by design spawns a large number of units. Civ V often struggles with this, as it simply wasn't designed to handle such an intense total war-focused game. Once the game (or saved game) is loaded, the mod is usually quite stable.

During testing, I did encounter a larger-than-normal amount of crashes. Even more when I was loading late-game saved games.


The only thing that worked for me was to clear the game cache. To do this:

1. In Windows, press the WINkey-E combination to open the Windows Explorer (not Internet Explorer)


2. Navigate to the game's cache folder, usually located some place like this:

C:\Users\XXXX\Documents\My Games\Sid Meier's Civilization 5\cache

Where XXXX is the account the game was installed under


3. Delete everything in the folder


4. Restart Civ V, and try to start the scenario/reload saved game again.


I've sometimes had to try this 2-3 times, but usually it will work the first time or two. But, I never "lost" a saved game. I could eventually get it to load.


Sorry about the extra work. Am looking for ways to streamline the mod and limit things like these, but there's only so much you can do when trying to provide a rather Epic gaming experience.

Thanks!
Last edited by S-Man; 5 Dec, 2018 @ 3:33am
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JEELEN (Banned) 26 Nov, 2018 @ 3:22pm 
In the game Cache folder are a lot of Data Base files. Should these be deleted?
S-Man  [developer] 26 Nov, 2018 @ 3:58pm 
You can safely delete the entire contents of the "Cache" folder - the game will regenerate them from scratch when it starts. It is creating clean versions of the databases that help the mod perform better.

The only downside is that if you have subscribed to a lot of mods, it may take a few seconds while the game downloads fresh copies of those mods as well.
CharroTaco 17 Jan, 2019 @ 3:35pm 
It keeps crashing when I choose Germany; I'm not able to reach 2nd turn. More specifically, it crashes when I select Strasbourg city.
Moreover, I cannot choose an Ideology despite 3 factories are already built at the start.
Last edited by CharroTaco; 17 Jan, 2019 @ 3:51pm
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