Australia- Cannot play past 2nd turn

Democracy 3 support
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Hello cliffski/forum,

I am playing the steam version of Democracy 3, on Windows 7 home premium 64-bit machine.

Since the 1.15 update i am unable to play as Australia- the game would rarely let me proceed to the next turn, 3rd turn was the highest i ever got to. The game Just freezes in the next turn’s loading screen and i must kill the application in task manager and then i get the standard windows message “Democracy3.exe is not responding”.
I dont understand why this problem is exclusive to Australia, i don’t experience the same problem while playing as other countries, as of yet. Is anybody in the same position?

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Do you have the Decay Democracy mod that has Russia and China in it?

3

Actually, the problem happens if you have a mod interfering with another mod.
Example: One of the simulation or policies name is the same in another one

4

Nope, i do not have any mods installed nor do I have the extremism and social engineering dlc’s.

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I have those mods installed but I can’t get past the 2nd turn either. It crashes in the other countries as well. (I have version 1.15).

[0:55:26:383]- ----DEBUG FILE----
[0:55:26:383]- Windows 7 detected
[0:55:26:383]- Command Line: “C:\Program Files (x86)\Democracy 3\Democracy3.exe”
[0:55:26:383]- Command Line argument:[]
[0:55:26:383]- Desktop resolution is 1366 x 768
[0:55:26:386]- Initialising Sound Engine
[0:55:26:411]- Finished Initialising Sound Engine
[0:55:26:417]- Attempting to initialise steam
[0:55:26:418]- Steam initialisation failed
[0:55:26:418]- Initialising Direct3D
[0:55:26:514]- Initialising global vertex buffer
[0:55:35:590]- Starting new game…
[0:55:35:805]- Failed to find neuron:.\src\SIM_Neuron.cpp 420

[0:55:35:805]- Failed to find Blackmarket for Publictaxreturns,:.\src\SIM_Neuron.cpp 384

[0:55:36:297]-

**CALCULATING SIM FINANCE
[0:55:36:297]-

**CALCULATING SIM FINANCE
[0:55:36:329]- Waiting for render thread [.\src\SIM_PortraitManager.cpp,134]]
[0:55:36:330]- Pre-caching minister portraits
[0:55:36:529]- Finished pre-caching minister portraits
[0:55:36:529]- Thread finish detected by loading screen
[0:55:36:634]- Waiting for render thread [.\src\GUI_Flag.cpp,15]]
[0:55:36:845]- Setting loading screen ready
[0:55:39:518]-

**CALCULATING SIM FINANCE
[0:55:39:525]- Thread finish detected by loading screen
[0:55:39:549]- Setting loading screen ready
[0:55:46:617]-

**CALCULATING SIM FINANCE
[0:55:47:541]-

**CALCULATING SIM FINANCE
[0:55:47:553]- Thread finish detected by loading screen