Crashing caused by Archers
I've been having some strange crashes in relation to archer heavy armies. For some reason whenever I field an army made up entirely of archers the game will always crash as the battle is loading up. It doesnt crash with an army of anything else (100% Infantry is fine, 100% Cavalry is fine etc) so I dont believe its a case of my computer not being able to handle the numbers. In fact even if I was to field 2 half stacks of archers against each other the game will still crash. Whats even more strange is that the crash doesn't happen with any other kind of missile unit, and it seems to be only this mod that is affected by this problem (I have done thorough checks on other mods and vanilla M2TW). Ive even tried reinstalling, scrubbing all sub mods and playing SS exactly as it comes, and yet the crashing persists. Is it the animations? Have the arrows been modified in any way from the base game? Has anyone else experienced this problem? And if so then have you been able to fix it? It's really annoying seeing as archer heavy tactics are my prefered strategy.
On the off chance anyone may ask, here are my cpu specs:
Operating System: Windows 10 Home 64-bit (10.0, Build 14393) (14393.rs1_release.160915-0644)
Language: English (Regional Setting: English)
System Manufacturer: System manufacturer
System Model: System Product Name
BIOS: 9003
Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-6600K CPU @ 3.50GHz (4 CPUs), ~3.5GHz
Memory: 16384MB RAM
Available OS Memory: 16312MB RAM
Page File: 4956MB used, 21356MB available
Windows Dir: C:\WINDOWS
DirectX Version: DirectX 12
DX Setup Parameters: Not found
User DPI Setting: Using System DPI
System DPI Setting: 96 DPI (100 percent)
DWM DPI Scaling: Disabled
Miracast: Available, with HDCP
Microsoft Graphics Hybrid: Not Supported
DxDiag Version: 10.00.14393.0000 64bit Unicode
GPU: Nvidia 980 Ti
I have also checked my crash logs and it's not giving me anything. Just goes from everything running fine to unspecified error message.
Re: Crashing caused by Archers
Hmm... Ive never seen this specific problem, but ive never gone with a full archer army either.
Ill try it and see if I get any crashes.
Stand by....
Hmm cant find a problem when I try it.
I assume you are using SS 6.4?
Re: Crashing caused by Archers
Yeah SS 6.4. Completely fresh reinstallation and it's still the same problem no matter what archer units I test on. Savage AI, BGR2, Next Heir Ancillary, Disable RR, Permanent Watchtowers and Longer Assimilation. I had this same problem on my previous computer as well which is even stranger. I've no idea what could be causing it
Re: Crashing caused by Archers
Maybe try disabling/changing some of the installation choices (next heir ancillary, BGR, etc...) one by one. See if a different combination will stop the crashing.
You shouldn't have a problem with them all but, worth a try in your specific case.
Also, just thought...
If this happened on different computers and regardless of mods, is it possible your installation files have become corrupt?
If nothing else works, you might try re-downloading all the installation files (a pain I know, but as last resort).
If still you get crashes after that, I could only suggest throwing a few infantry/cavalry units into your army to work around the glitch.