CA ALWAYS makes AOE2 crash when quitting CA.#179

Windows 11 Home 24H2 64 bit
OS build 26100.3775
Processor: i7-12700K
Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti
32 GB Ram

Disabled all mods, still crashes. See attached logs.
I see another user has the same problem 4 months ago and it has already been reported to the AOE2 DE team, but this is a CA bug, not an AOE2 DE bug, so I don’t think reporting it again to the DE team will help anything. https://captureage.nolt.io/167

Before the recent update AOE2 would just hang and I had to force-close it,but now I get this new Assertion failed.

I see from MainLog.txt that it writes to Age2CrashReport.txt but I can’t actually find this file when I look for it - C:\Users\georg\Games\Age of Empires 2 DE\logs\2025.04.26-1201.23\Age2CrashReport.txt

Lemme know if you need more information. I don’t know how footage of this happening will help, since I can reproduce this issue 100% of the time: I try Alt-F4 from CA. I try clicking the quit button in CA, same result.

This is the Steam version, not Windows
Additional logs from C:\Users\georg\AppData\Roaming\CaptureAge\logs

Also see attached dxdiag

I have exactly the same issue. No feedback from support?

@George Munteanu @Fernando Yllescas We have received this Assertion-related report recently. We believe this to be an issue with how the game is handling the CA:DE connection in some specific situations, but we will take a look at it and see if we can find anything we can do from CA:DE’s side. If we need extra information we will reach out to you 🙂

This happens on windows 10 too! It´s awful, i can´t use Capture Age this way!

@Pablounquillo This is not a CA:DE bug. Please report it in the game forums or add to the existing reports of others 🙏

The game devs doesn´t care at all, it´s an already reported bug. I guess i won´t be able to see replays anymore on CA.

@Pablounquillo while this isn’t something we can fix, feel free to try the following general-troubleshooting steps. If any of these things help at all it would be useful to know:

Ensure you have the latest and correct drivers installed for your specific model
Ensure CA:DE is using the dedicated GPU if an integrated one also exists
Ensure that no power-saving or hybrid-graphics settings are enabled
Ensure there are no application-specific settings for CA:DE applied in the GPU application
Try toggling game mode on Windows
Try verifying the integrity of the game files on Steam
Try disabling UHD in both the game and CA:DE
Try disabling/lowering every graphic setting in CA:DE, especially texture filter options
Try changing video memory settings to lower and higher values, if possible
Try disabling every in-game mod
Try reinstalling CA:DE
Try reinstalling the game
Try running CA:DE on a clean installation of Windows (you can try a virtual machine using Hyper-V to avoid formatting)

@George Munteanu @Fernando Yllescas @Pablounquillo Some of our users found that disabling the experimental feature to automatically minimize AoE resolved the issue for them. This seems to be a regression introduced in the April patch of the game. See if that helps the issue for you

That fixed it! Thank you so much!
disabling the experimental feature to automatically minimize AoE

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