Game crashes every time I do a terror mission.

[AdSin15]

I recently downloaded OpenXcom and it has revitalized my love of this game.  My regular computer is broken and I'm using an old machine that doesn't play modern games.  Discovering Openxcom is wonderful because it fixes the majority of problems with the original game! 

Then I discovered mods...the weapons mods and others are fantastic!  I have the Final Mod Pack, Sectopod HWPs, Shotguns, etc etc as well. 

Now after downloading some mods, my game now crashes when I attempt to do a terror mission.  When I click "Yes" on landing for the terror mission the game stalls for about 15 seconds and then crashes to desktop.  Every time.  I tried skipping the first mission and I get the same mission again next month (same city) and again it crashes if I click Yes on the mission.  I dont even get to the pre-mission inventory screen. 

Any thoughts?

[pilot00]

I recently downloaded OpenXcom and it has revitalized my love of this game.  My regular computer is broken and I'm using an old machine that doesn't play modern games.  Discovering Openxcom is wonderful because it fixes the majority of problems with the original game! 

Then I discovered mods...the weapons mods and others are fantastic!  I have the Final Mod Pack, Sectopod HWPs, Shotguns, etc etc as well. 

Now after downloading some mods, my game now crashes when I attempt to do a terror mission.  When I click "Yes" on landing for the terror mission the game stalls for about 15 seconds and then crashes to desktop.  Every time.  I tried skipping the first mission and I get the same mission again next month (same city) and again it crashes if I click Yes on the mission.  I dont even get to the pre-mission inventory screen. 

Any thoughts?

I Would try as a first to dissable all the mods except the FMP. If you have the FMP they are redundant since those are included in it. After you do this and the problem is persisting activate savescumming, and try again a number of times to see if its a map problem.

Can you list a specific mod list you are using?

[Warboy1982]

i'd suggest the opposite, disable fmp.

[pilot00]

i'd suggest the opposite, disable fmp.

Wouldnt the result be the same though? My bet is one of those mods is interfering with FMPs weapons on some variable or graphic. Probably even code of some short if it happens one of them to be outdated (speculation). If the game runs ok with the FMP, then it would be a matter of checking the mods one by one to see which causes the confict. If that is the case to begin with.

[Warboy1982]

no, it wouldnt.
the difference is that if it occurs without the FMP, then i'll debug it and try to figure out a fix. otherwise it falls into the category of "someone else's problem"

[pilot00]

no, it wouldnt.
the difference is that if it occurs without the FMP, then i'll debug it and try to figure out a fix. otherwise it falls into the category of "someone else's problem"

You are trying to find out if the problem is on the source game i.e. openxcom/the nightly itself. Ok I understand that. But I dont think thats the case because we would have had more reports about similar behaviour correct? Thats why I said to check the mods first.

Anyway it was just a suggestion on my part.

Op hows it going, any news?

[AdSin15]

Oh hey sorry for not responding.  I actually fixed it rather quickly by turning off the Terrain Pack. 

I read that others had a similar, but different, issue with certain creatures movements causing the game to lock up during terror missions, which was fixed by disabling the terrain mod. 

I tried doing that and it worked immediately.  So far no relapses of the issue after 5 terror missions and 5 months of gameplay. 

Thanks for the responses!  I love this website!

[Solarius Scorch]

There was probably an error loading some map block; I know some of them are faulty and are waiting until Hobbes fixes them.

If I'm right, turning the FMP on and off resetted the terrain generation seed, so the faulty block was not chosen this time.