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

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

--- Comment #91 from reactormonk at gmail.com 2013-07-28 00:05:10 CDT ---
(In reply to comment #89)
> (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.

Works. Old saves are dead though.

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