[Bug 31113] Civilization V crashes after specific amount of game turns

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http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=31113

reactormonk at gmail.com changed:

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--- Comment #89 from reactormonk at gmail.com 2013-07-26 23:09:48 CDT ---
(In reply to comment #82)
> I've done some work on localizing the crash, and believe I know what the
> underlying problem is (it is also the same issue that affects BNW from working
> under WINE).
> 
> The crash is specifically caused when any civilization in the game enters the
> Renaissance era, when the game attempts to recruit spies for the DLC
> civilizations. As the DLC has to be compatible with both the base game (which
> didn't have spies) and the expansions, the DLC by itself doesn't contain any
> spies; as such when the game tries to recruit one, it reads invalid memory, and
> boom, crash.
> 
> The Expansions for Civ (both GNK and BNW) have updated XML files living in
> Assets/Expansion/DLC/*/Gameplay/XML, if one manually copies these XML files and
> overrides the original files in Assets/DLC/*, you can continue a previously
> crashing game, and continue on your path to world domination :-).
> 
> I believe the underlying cause is how WINE specifically is returning files in
> one of the directory search options. Based on behavior I saw with the release
> of BNW, Civ tries to load things on windows in the order of: DLC_*, Expansion,
> Expansion2, Expansion DLC overlay, Expansion2 DLC overlay.
> 
> Under WINE, this order is screwed up, and tries to do things like Expansion2,
> Expansion, DLC overlays, DLC_*
> 
> Once I localize which function causing the difference in behavior, making a
> patch *should* be easy ...

Can confirm it's when I enter Renaissance Era with Korea. But moving the DLCs
over doesn't help.

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