A new error. (UPD: Problem solved by reboot.)

[Akira Kurosawa]

Problem solved by reboot.

Edited March 16, 2023 by Akira Kurosawa

[Norse_Harold]

Thanks for copy/pasting the error messages. Can you attach mainlog.html and system_info.txt? What was happening in the game at the time that the error occurred? Can you cause it to happen again? What happens if you reboot your computer and try to cause the problem to happen again? Which mods were you using at the time? How can others reproduce the symptoms?

Without further information and testing, we can only guess what would cause that. The error message states that the checksum of a part of a Zip archive failed to match the correct checksum. This could be caused by corruption of the data on the storage device. Or, it could be caused by faulty RAM or CPU. Please make a backup of the game data and then reinstall the game. If that doesn't fix it then check for hardware problems. For example, you can check for faulty RAM with memtest86+.

[Akira Kurosawa]

17 minutes ago, Norse_Harold said:

Thanks for copy/pasting the error messages. Can you attach mainlog.html and system_info.txt? What was happening in the game at the time that the error occurred? Can you cause it to happen again? What happens if you reboot your computer and try to cause the problem to happen again? Which mods were you using at the time? How can others reproduce the symptoms?

Without further information and testing, we can only guess what would cause that. The error message states that the checksum of a part of a Zip archive failed to match the correct checksum. This could be caused by corruption of the data on the storage device. Or, it could be caused by faulty RAM or CPU. Please make a backup of the game data and then reinstall the game. If that doesn't fix it then check for hardware problems. For example, you can check for faulty RAM with memtest86+.

Reboot helped, but I reinstalled the game anew, after deleting traces of previous files. This bug occurred when generating a medium sized 3 player AI Mainland on the hardest difficulty. These were the Ptolemies, Mauryas and Seleucids.

[Norse_Harold]

Okay, thanks. You should still check the RAM in your system with memtest86+. Also, check the S.M.A.R.T status of your storage devices with smartmontools.

Edited March 16, 2023 by Norse_Harold

[Akira Kurosawa]

3 minutes ago, Norse_Harold said:

Okay, thanks. You should still check the RAM in your system with memtest86+. Also, check the S.M.A.R.T status of your hard drive with smartmontools.

This is weird. If the archive is corrupted, then why does a reboot help? It cannot restore a damaged archive, can it?

[Norse_Harold]

Maybe the copy on disk is fine, but the copy of the archive in RAM was corrupted due to malfunctioning RAM or CPU. Then after reboot, the archive was reloaded to RAM from disk and happened to be correct.

Or, maybe there is a problem with the transfer interface of the hard drive such that sometimes a correct copy is retrieved and sometimes an incorrect copy is retrieved. Or, maybe something else entirely is the cause. I'm just listing hypotheses that would explain the symptoms.

Edited March 16, 2023 by Norse_Harold