I hadn't played RTW in ages, so I thought I'd have some empire-building fun with a new mod and came across RS. Promptly installed vanilla, patched to 1.5, then installed RS 1.5a. So far so good. Have now played Pergamum for a couple days and having a great time, currently carving gaping holes into Macedons defences and preparing a full scale assault of the Ptolemaic mainland after a long naval blockade.
BUT: I'm having regular CTDs that are slowly but surely taking the pleasure out of the battle shenanigans ( = really starting to piss me off ). It seems to happen with every other battle and I've not been able to figure out why. After restarting RS the first battle is always guaranteed to work, but after that it's fingers crossed. My specs aren't that great (3yr old laptop??) , P4 3 Ghz, 512 RAM, ATI Mobility Radeon 9000, however I have played both vanilla and other mods (EB, Troy, and others..) and never had any problems. Up until yesterday it always happened while the battle was loading, which is frustrating, but at least you don't spend ages battling it out and then finding you have to do it all over again...well, until yesterday that is. I had a small contingent of my Macedon-smashing armies lay siege on a Greek Cities settlement and was duly attacked by an army 3 times my size. Result: My Pergamum hoplites and archers successfully fought off the advancing Greek hoplites (many militia, but also normal and Athenian!) and I earned my first and long-awaited heroic victory! or so I thought: Settlement taken, population massacred (which I do 9/10 times anyway), then everything goes black...
Right, enough of this. The problem's obvious, any suggestions? I really like this mod, but having to restart every 3rd battle or so is a pain in the arse.
Hope you can help
Peace, DeeK