Game crashes when trying to load an old saved game

Age of Empires II: DE II - Report a Bug
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:arrow_forward: GAME INFORMATION

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  • **GAME BUILD #:101.101.50292.0 6958215 ######
  • GAME PLATFORM: Steam
  • OPERATING SYSTEM: Windows 10

:arrow_forward: ISSUE EXPERIENCED

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After today’s update, if I try to load a saved game from before the patch, the whole game crashes without any visible error. I understand that usually after upgrades you get “out of sync” errors or something like that, but now there’s not even an error. The games just closes while in the loading screen after selecting a saved game to load.

:arrow_forward: FREQUENCY OF ISSUE

  • 100% of the time / matches I play (ALWAYS)

:arrow_forward: REPRODUCTION STEPS

Here’s the steps to reproduce the issue:

  1. Click Single Player
  2. Click Load Game
  3. Click “Replays” tab.
  4. Select a replay file from before the latest patch.
  5. Click Load Replay
  6. The game closes without any error.

:arrow_forward: EXPECTED RESULT

I was supposed to load the saved game. Maybe see an error if it’s incompatible.

:arrow_forward: IMAGE

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:arrow_forward: GAME FILES (SAVE / RECORDING)

:point_down: Attach a SAVE GAME (.aoe2spgame) or GAME RECORDING (.aoe2record) of the match where you encountered the issue. Link it below if using an external file service.

  • I would upload a file, but I’m getting “Sorry, new users can not upload attachments.” :confused: But it happens with any old saved game (*.aoe2record)
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The game crashes while loading single player campaign save games as well, not just recorded games.
Can’t load anything that was saved before this patch. I guess these are lost for good now.
Kind of makes the saving games pointless if each update makes them completely incompatible.
There’s also no option to rollback to a previous version on Steam, which makes it even worse.

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