CTD & Bug Thread

[$Arminius1]

Situation Nicomedia:
Vadomarius lays seige on Nicomedia with an nearly full stack army. In Nicomedia Vitalianus with 2 Milites units is situated. Rumitalca attacks Vadomarius with an nearly full stack army. Playing the battle Vadomarius is victorius and nearly all units of Rumitalca and Vitalius are destroyed. Rumitalca and Vitalius died on battlefield. After battle summary and at returning to campaign modus -> CTD.

Situation Constantinople:
Vadomarius lays seige on Constantinople with a nearly full stack army (Palatian auxiliaries). In Constantinople is only Procopius Flavius' unit. Nearby is an army with only one Auxiliary cavalry unit and an army only with Araxius. Playing the seige battle Wadomarius is victorius. Procopius and Araxius die in Constantinople. All Prokop's units are destroyed. After battle summary and at returning to campaign modus -> CTD.

[julianus heraclius]

Situation Nicomedia:
Vadomarius lays seige on Nicomedia with an nearly full stack army. In Nicomedia Vitalianus with 2 Milites units is situated. Rumitalca attacks Vadomarius with an nearly full stack army. Playing the battle Vadomarius is victorius and nearly all units of Rumitalca and Vitalius are destroyed. Rumitalca and Vitalius died on battlefield. After battle summary and at returning to campaign modus -> CTD.

Situation Constantinople:
Vadomarius lays seige on Constantinople with a nearly full stack army (Palatian auxiliaries). In Constantinople is only Procopius Flavius' unit. Nearby is an army with only one Auxiliary cavalry unit and an army only with Araxius. Playing the seige battle Wadomarius is victorius. Procopius and Araxius die in Constantinople. All Prokop's units are destroyed. After battle summary and at returning to campaign modus -> CTD.

So there were no duplicates then. I assume that you have included the Patch 2a? This includes the corrections to the Equites Stablesiani sprites. Alot of Roman Generals use this unit as their bodyguard. If you have included this patch, then I'm assuming a memory issue. This seems to happen when very large battles are fought.

[$Arminius1]

I have installed Patch 2a in a new and separated IJ fodler. It doesn't fix the CTD. For me it does not looks like one of the known memory problems.
I guess it could be something around "deleted army stacks after decisive defeats" - "killed characters - character traits - characters in settlements".
Unfortunately this CTDs make it impossible for me to play Valens in 355 campaign. I loved Valens on his white horse and his bodyguard with christian shield patterns.
Additionally I missed the loyality bar in character windows in 355 campaign (It is in 361 and 365 campaign.).
Nevertheless excellent work! Can't wait for final version.

[-Traiano-]

I have installed Patch 2a in a new and separated IJ fodler. It doesn't fix the CTD. For me it does not looks like one of the known memory problems.
I guess it could be something around "deleted army stacks after decisive defeats" - "killed characters - character traits - characters in settlements".
Unfortunately this CTDs make it impossible for me to play Valens in 355 campaign. I loved Valens on his white horse and his bodyguard with christian shield patterns.
Additionally I missed the loyality bar in character windows in 355 campaign (It is in 361 and 365 campaign.).
Nevertheless excellent work! Can't wait for final version.

Same problems to me with 361 Julian's campaign, haven't been able to solve so i'm now playing 355 Julian's campaign on a new fresh install...

[PSEUDO ROMANUS]

I'm playing 365 AD campaign and I haven't had any CTD's so far. Granted, I'm a slow player (I'm in the year 369 AD), but it has been pretty stable. The only thing is that the loading times before and after a battle are long. Probably because the unlimited men option is on, I don't know.

[margio]

Now it's 375AD and Armenian's Campaign (261AD with VH/VH setup) is well developping. Jus a couple of CTD's, but due to ram issues probably , because once restarted I didn't have CTD's again.
Great Job !

ayeaye Sir

[julianus heraclius]

For me it's now 370AD in my 355AD campaign. The only CTD's that I have had have been in relation to existing battles, and only when there have been huge battles, but these have been rare. I am inclined to think on the whole it is a computer hardware issue. Don't forget the default is for unlimited men. My understanding is that this can cause memory issues for some computers. Of course you can always change the settings back.

[-Traiano-]

Could be for weaker computers but mine is quad-core 2,4 Ghz/4 Gigs RAM and 512MB videocard...don't think my CTD where caused from hardware issues...

[julianus heraclius]

Could be for weaker computers but mine is quad-core 2,4 Ghz/4 Gigs RAM and 512MB videocard...don't think my CTD where caused from hardware issues...

Thn, I'm afraid I am at a loss. If anyone else can shed light on this I would be extremely grateful

[SeniorBatavianHorse]

I re-installed IJ3 plus patches as I was encountering a lot of CTDs after campaign battles and now I can't even launch the mod at all despite a further 3 re-installs with patches . . . Very odd. I get the launch screen with the default campaign and then it always crashes to desktop. My last attempt was today and now I am very much in need of a IJ fix!!!!

[-Traiano-]

I re-installed IJ3 plus patches as I was encountering a lot of CTDs after campaign battles and now I can't even launch the mod at all despite a further 3 re-installs with patches . . . Very odd. I get the launch screen with the default campaign and then it always crashes to desktop. My last attempt was today and now I am very much in need of a IJ fix!!!!

Have you installed beta2 plus patch 2a??? so i think i know what's your problem, have you installed "IB strat map models" in OPTIONS folder?? If yes all you have to do is removing that option and reinstall vanilla's strat map models, then campaign should run well, i made same experience.

[SeniorBatavianHorse]

Ah, right. I will try that now and report back soon! Thanks for the advice!

[julianus heraclius]

Ah, right. I will try that now and report back soon! Thanks for the advice!

Yes, you need to have the IJV3.0 BETA 2 install plus the IJV3.0 Beta Patch 2a. It should work fine then.

[merlinuscdxx]

For those of you that are having "RAM related" CTDs that have 3 or 4 GB of RAM, you're correct, it's not your hardware, but, if you are running a 32 bit version of XP or earlier, there is a problem where applications can't address more than 2GB of RAM. This is what usually causes those crashes after a huge battle. I had this same problem in EB, and waiting for 20-30 seconds after the results screen pops up to reload the campaign map helped, it also seems to be working with this mod, since I haven't had any post-battle CTDs yet (knocking on wood). This lets some of the RAM "clear out" so the campaign map can load. This post over at the .org also has some good suggestions that may help. Obviously, just use the ones that are general to PCs, not the EB specific ones.

[Samuel Adams]

I continually get a North African CTD when I go to enter battle. I've had to auto resolve every battle in North Africa with the Berbers and Rom Rebels. I was pretty sure I had it narrowed to the dark skinned auxiliaries but the Berbers attacked and I had the same issue. I've not been able to play a single battle in North Africa, unfortunately.

[julianus heraclius]

I continually get a North African CTD when I go to enter battle. I've had to auto resolve every battle in North Africa with the Berbers and Rom Rebels. I was pretty sure I had it narrowed to the dark skinned auxiliaries but the Berbers attacked and I had the same issue. I've not been able to play a single battle in North Africa, unfortunately.

I assume that you have installed IJV3.0 BETA Install 2 and the IJV3.0 Beta 2a patch?

[Samuel Adams]

Yes sir I'm all patched up

[julianus heraclius]

Yes sir I'm all patched up

Any chance of pictures or sending me your savedgame. BTW, which campaign are you playing?

[Giovanni dalle Bande Nere]

Hi Julianus, i got a error message in a 355 campaign when imperium julianorum (me) enter in a battle with a pictish stack in Caledonia: when it loads the battle i got this message

FAILED TO FIND TEXTURE IJ/DATA/MODELS_UNIT_PICTISH_HUNTSMAN.TGA

i hope you can fix that because i want really to continue this beautiful campaign
your mod is great!

[julianus heraclius]

Hi Julianus, i got a error message in a 355 campaign when imperium julianorum (me) enter in a battle with a pictish stack in Caledonia: when it loads the battle i got this message

FAILED TO FIND TEXTURE IJ/DATA/MODELS_UNIT_PICTISH_HUNTSMAN.TGA

i hope you can fix that because i want really to continue this beautiful campaign
your mod is great!

Ah yes, the missing texture file for the Mercenary Gaelic Crossbowmen. I will incorporate the fix in the next patch but in the meantime copy and paste the following entry into your descr_model_battle.txt file over the existing celtic_crossbowmen one:

type celtic_crossbowmen
skeleton fs_crossbow, fs_dagger
indiv_range 40
texture slave, IJ/data/models_unit/textures/IJ_AR_unit_pictish_huntsman.tga
texture merc, IJ/data/models_unit/textures/IJ_AR_unit_pictish_huntsman.tga
texture celts, IJ/data/models_unit/textures/IJ_AR_unit_pictish_huntsman.tga
model_flexi IJ/data/models_unit/IJ_AR_unit_pictish_huntsman.cas, 15
model_flexi IJ/data/models_unit/IJ_AR_unit_pictish_huntsman.cas, 30
model_flexi IJ/data/models_unit/IJ_AR_unit_pictish_huntsman.cas, 40
model_flexi IJ/data/models_unit/IJ_AR_unit_pictish_huntsman.cas, max
model_sprite slave, 60.0, IJ/data/sprites/slave_celtic_crossbowmen_sprite.spr
model_sprite merc, 60.0, IJ/data/sprites/slave_celtic_crossbowmen_sprite.spr
model_sprite celts, 60.0, IJ/data/sprites/celts_celtic_crossbowmen_sprite.spr
model_tri 400, 0.5f, 0.5f, 0.5f

Then you will be able to continue.

Cheers