No need to uninstall-reinstall, open steam, right click to the name of the game, select the "properties", then go to "betas" tab, in there it says select the beta you'd like to participate to "previousbuild 1.4.1"

Downgrading to 1.4.1 worked, save file loaded perfectly.

Can we downgrade the version of the game from steam to 1.4 minus the 400mb patch?

Things in general troubleshooting:

1. Did it, crash with runtime exception
2. Did it, same
3. It’s not a startup crash
4. Not gonna delete and re-download the game, sorry

Win 10 pro (build 1607), 64-bit, 16 gb ram, nvidia gt 840m (drivers 368.81), i5-4210u 1.70-2.40ghz

Game version 1.4.2f2

Crash happens when loading save files with long playtimes and many units.

All other files are attached in the zip file, no crash report generated by the game. wfto-hog bug track files.zip

Everytime it crashes, try to open the level from campaign map then loading it, I don't know why but this method works for me

I also have this issue exactly, it started to happen after the latest +400mb patch.

I tried re-installing the redistributables as it was saying "runtime error", but then now I just get a generic crash pointing me to either games executable, gamelogic.dll or to an "unknown" module.

my temporary fix:

Open the level from the campaign map, then after the map begins, load the relevant save file of the level.

example: my save file of the last level crashes, I click the last campaign level from the map, start it, after I see my dungeon core I press esc, click load, then load my last level savefile.