Wow, and another correction soon after the bug report. If only all software studios handled support like this...

So if I load a game where I (should) already have control over the Peloponnese the AI stops with its silliness or do I have to reload an older save to trigger the event correctly?

I loaded the most recent gamesave and everything was fine.

I had large armies taking over Messene after conquering Sparta and then the season got stuck at "early winter" for 8 hours of gameplay or so, which emptied out most of my supplies rather fast, so now my empire has more or less rebelled all over. I tried to change season via the console + this new beta and savegames but still have these awfull long winternights with rebellions and hunger everywhere, quite stressing in fact - sheep is the only solution to keep some few cities from rebelling.

Yours /Delphi

Winter is coming

Winter is coming

Indeed, it is. I can, though, use my very old savegames, but unfortunately not the last three autosaves and the quicksave counting approx. 128 hours of gameplay. So I lost about 100 hours of gaming by going back to savegame four counting 28, hehe. I really like the game, coming in from the TW-series, which I have been following from the start, it is a tempting game and when all is said and done, this new beta has improved the gameplay a lot for me, ie more aggressive enemies towards claiming mines back and especially taking sheep from everywhere and transporting them back to their cities, much more enemy-action to my game edit: removed game written twice.

Yours /Delphi

and then the season got stuck at "early winter" for 8 hours of gameplay or so

If you go into the console and type 'debug on' you'll get a bunch of text in the top-left corner of your screen. The first row should say something like 'Day: ??, ??, Season: ??, Year: ??, Mult: ??' If you could let me know what it says that would be helpful in figuring out what's going wrong.

You might also be able to fix the problem using the 'setday ??? -abs' command. Using the '-abs' tag is probably important as that will set the date to the absolute value otherwise it will only increment it.

Thanks for the report.

1) It says: Day: 32777.80078, 17,8 Season: 0,20, Year: 91, Mult: 1.00.

2) Tried it, but it says: Error: Usage: SetDay [-abs] <day>

3) You are welcome.

Yours /Delphi

So I was a little too quick with my last comment. While my diagnosis was correct it turns out the cause was a little more obscure. Apparently, by default DirectX forces all floating point math to be single-precision (only 7 decimal points of accuracy) and, while they do have a setting to allow high precision math, their documentation warns that this can lead to performance issues and unexpected behaviour.

So, while the issue appears to be fixed, we're going to need to do some more testing to make sure there aren't any side effects.

Thanks for looking into it. I have a crash dump now, which I will mail to you. It actually looked like a direct-x issue.

Yours /Delphi