Okay today's upgrade made my explosions.xtbl crash my game on startup.Verified cache and all that sorts of things and even if I remove every mod from SRIV directory and only leave explosions.xtbl is still crashes.I even used the vanilla explosions.xtbl without any modifications from patch_compressed.vpp_pc.What the fuck is wrong with my game?
explosions.xtbl now crashes my game
- Thread starter hexef
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hmm. i'm getting insta crashes too but even when i use the uninstaller to remove the Extended Aresenal mod (which has my explosion.xtbl) i still get ctd on startup. i've tracked my ctds to a "patch_vint_doc_containers.asm_pc" file dated 12/10/2013. i'm not sure where it's from. not finding it in the mods i dl'd and i didn't install the game till 1/14/2014. if i remove that patch_vint then i can play. if i remove it and verify cache, it does not get remade. in fact, verify doesn't find anything missing
I found a fix.Actually the new explosions.xtbl file which was updated in yesterday's patch has an XML Syntax error right at the end of the file,the last 2 lines to be more precise.Here's the error:
As you see,there are 2 extra lines that shouldn't be there:
Removing those line fixed the insta crash on startup.
Though,the strange thing is why it didn't crash my game in the first place,when I didn't have any explosions.xtbl file in my SRIV root folder.The same erronated explosions.xtbl was in patch_compressed.vpp_pc as well.And we all know the game always loads the files inside the patch_.vpp_pc files...That would mean the game doesn't put the explosions.xtbl from the patch_compressed.vpp_pc into memory at all but another one.
Code:
<EntryCategories>
<Category><Name>DLC_1</Name></Category>
<Category><Name>DLC2</Name></Category>
<Category><Name>DLC5</Name></Category>
<Category><Name>DLC6</Name></Category>
<Category><Name>Entries</Name><Category><Name>Mission</Name><Category><Name>Mission01</Name></Category><Category><Name>Mission02</Name></Category><Category><Name>Mission06</Name></Category><Category><Name>Mission07</Name></Category><Category><Name>Rift</Name></Category></Category><Category><Name>Prototype</Name></Category></Category>
</EntryCategories>
</root>ot>ame><Category><Name>Mission01</Name></Category><Category><Name>Mission02</Name></Category><Category><Name>Mission06</Name></Category><Category><Name>Mission07</Name></Category><Category><Name>Rift</Name></Category></Category><Category><Name>Prototype</Name></Category></Category>
</EntryCategories>
</root>As you see,there are 2 extra lines that shouldn't be there:
Code:
</root>ot>ame><Category><Name>Mission01</Name></Category><Category><Name>Mission02</Name></Category><Category><Name>Mission06</Name></Category><Category><Name>Mission07</Name></Category><Category><Name>Rift</Name></Category></Category><Category><Name>Prototype</Name></Category></Category>
</EntryCategories>Removing those line fixed the insta crash on startup.
Though,the strange thing is why it didn't crash my game in the first place,when I didn't have any explosions.xtbl file in my SRIV root folder.The same erronated explosions.xtbl was in patch_compressed.vpp_pc as well.And we all know the game always loads the files inside the patch_.vpp_pc files...That would mean the game doesn't put the explosions.xtbl from the patch_compressed.vpp_pc into memory at all but another one.