"Medieval 2: Total War encountered an unspecified error and will now exit."

[polarbear297]

oh great now i have another problem. when i try to launch it says that "Medieval 2: Total War encountered an unspecified error and will now exit." What do i do?

[AytchMan]

Could be lots of things:

Can't find the exe file.
Cd not in drive.
Bad install.
Don't meet minimum system requirements.
Illegal copy.

Try rebooting your system. See if that solves it.

[Elric von Rabenfels]

Moved to Technical Help

[warloc70]

check your System Events Log and see what error you got.
Click START, right click MY COMPUTER; click MANAGE.

then expand SYSTEM EVENTS
check what errors you got there.

[antonio34]

My medieval 2 total war worked for a couple of days ago but when i "cleaned" my harddrive it doesn't work anyone knows why??

[irishron]

You "cleaned" it too good. Finish uninstalling it even if you have to manually and reinstall it.

[blacktroop]

i got "Medieval 2: Total War encountered an unspecified error and will now exit." when a clip(video) appears
for example,when i'm spying something,,it should appear a clip in game,,but it exits with this error
can someone help me with this??

[irishron]

Are you playing a mod? Which faction? Which settlement?

[blacktroop]

any faction or settlement,the clip doesn't appear,the game is shouting down

[irishron]

Post your dxdiag.

You can disable the movies in the medieval2.preferences.cfg.

[Kissaki]

After unpacking the Kilimanjaro of files required for editing buildings etc., I got "unspecified" errors as soon as the battle deployment screen appeared (and all I did was add the unmounted Gothic knights to the export_descr_buildings file). Naturally, that makes the game a bit unplayable. I didn't check if things were alright if I did not use the "filefirst" command thingie, though perhaps I should have. I uninstalled the whole thing (Gold version), and am now in the process of reinstalling the whole thing again. Hopefully I won't have to unpack the files again (they are still there, but I'm not sure to what extent they overwrite stuff, or should overwrite stuff).

Aaaaaalmost done, now.


Edit: Come to think of it, I never did delete those geography files... I did make a mental note of it after reading the readme, but the unpacking took bloody ages and afterwards I just forgot about it. Well, that was an hour well spent!

[irishron]

Enjoy playing when you get back to that point. Any future problems, come on in.

[Kissaki]

Ok, now everything seems to be working swimmingly, battles and all. Well, first it was, "wrong disc inserted?? This is total BS! Oh wait, it is the wrong disc."

I then started a test campaign with the HRE. They start out with an army conveniently placed next to a rebel city, so I could soon test out the battle thing. I actually ran into an unrelated bug, here. I lay siege to the city, and hit end turn. Winter came, and my army had vanished in thin air. This bug was fortunately not re-occuring, but I expect I'll have to be on the watch-out for it in the future. This bug was also present before any of the editing hoo-haa, as I had the same thing happen to one of my priests before, so it's certainly not my fault. I'll have to do a search for that bug on these forums.

One odd thing: the medieval2preference file was the same as before my uninstall, as it had the filefirst thing in it. It was also this time not write-protected, though I know it was before I uninstalled.


So far it seems that it is not necessary to do the unpacker routine all over again after a reinstall, but I'll have to wait and see with that one.

[irishron]

First rule of Medieval2 is don't unpack unless you are going to mod or a mod you wish to install specifically says to. It causes more problems than it's worth.

Second rule is if you are goig to chnae the medieval2.preferences.cfg, make it read-only. The game will overwrite it if not.

Third rule is there are many random errors and many are hard to reproduce. If you can get by saving and reloading a lot, you are ahead.

Fourth rule the file first switch in the cfg file is a lifesave when you do unpack or play mods.

Enjoy the game.

[Kissaki]

I wouldn't call it modding, but I am planning to do quite a bit of tweaking of the unit and building stats, to make them a bit more "true to form" and give them a balance I am comfortable with. For that I had to unpack. Maybe I could have managed to have unpacked only the files I needed (no more than 4-6 .txt files, tops), but I'm not as computer literate as all that. I figure it was worth the risk. Thanks for the warning, though.

[irishron]

It is called modding as in you are modifying the stats. Call it splitting hairs if you want. To me, it's also part of the game.

Enjoy yourself.

[lolspek]

I got the same problem but I can't open medieval2.preference.cfg

Sorry for the probs with me :p

[irishron]

Is it read-only or you don't have admin rights to open it?

[lolspek]

It seems that I can 't open cfg. programs, so I did it with word, but the error is still there...

[lolspek]

I only get this messages in some events, like marriage or spy things