Crash after mod

[SpencerH]

I've been playing with adding changing techs. It seems to play fine but when I end the turn from the original or autosaved game I get:

CIVILIZATION3 caused an invalid page fault in
module CIVILIZATION3.EXE at 017f:0055580f.
Registers:
EAX=00000000 CS=017f EIP=0055580f EFLGS=00010246
EBX=00aba238 SS=0187 ESP=00aba0e4 EBP=0aa30950
ECX=ffffffff DS=0187 ESI=00000008 FS=0d6f
EDX=0a74d10c ES=0187 EDI=5c747241 GS=0000
Bytes at CS:EIP:
f2 ae f7 d1 2b f9 8d 54 24 2c 8b f7 8b fa 8b d1
Stack dump:
005e1970 00000008 00656358 01535468 00000001 005b0418 00000000 ffffffff 00000000 17970258 0aa30950 00000001 04010401 00000000 80658138 17970d3f

Can someone tell me what this is?

I also noticed that the tech icons got mixed up.

[SpencerH]

More info:

I previously added a tech with the editor and it seemed to work fine (I recall there were some glitches but they worked out) with a new game. This time I've renamed chemistry to alchemy and changed the prerequisites etc. I've also been making other tech prerequisite changes and moving the tech tree around to fit with those changes.

When you add a technology the game will crash whenever you view the technology in the civilopedia with the highest number icon. It just so happens to go in alphabetical order (though the alphabet has nothing to do with it) leaving Writing to be the one that will lock up the game if viewed.

The way you fix this is edit Writing in the Editor and change the icon down by at least one. Simple, isn't it? But this will allow you to add techs flawlessly, but you cannot currently add new icons. You will need to do this for each tech you add, I believe, so that limits the maximum number of techs that can be added to 82. Screwy that multiple techs have to use the same icons, but at least you can add them now!

I've seen this post by plutarck but I havent had this particular problem. It does seem to be relevant though since I have 83 techs. Is this related to why my icons are screwy?

[SpencerH]

I'm having a great conversation with myself . I tried Plutarcks remedy and it works. The game was crashing when I discovered writing instead of when viewing writing in the civilopedia.

[Willem]

Originally posted by SpencerH
I'm having a great conversation with myself .

I'm glad to see you're so easily amused.

[SpencerH]

Its a really stupid bug eh! You can add techs but the icons get all screwed up.