So I've been getting this crash a hell of a lot lately both while playing the 'Third Age Total War' mod and 'Stainless Steel' I haven't played any other variant of mtw2 since I installed so I don't know if this problem persists in other variations.
But whenever I'm playing on the campaign map the game has a habit of crashing to a black screen where my monitor doesn't seem to pick up anything anymore and the sound will carry on playing for a minute or so before getting stuck in a loop and forcing me to restart my computer. The problem seems to be associated with my graphics card but I've monitored the temperature and it does not overheat and I opened up my PC and cleaned out all the dust which didn't help, there is also no sign that a crash is coming ie with frame rate lag or artifacts. I have also removed my graphics drivers in safe mode and installed the latest drivers to no avail.
The crash only seems to occur on the campaign map, when in battle the game runs fine without crashing which you would imagine would be the more graphics intensive part of the game, so I have no idea what to do about this crash, any suggestions? My graphics card is a Nvidia 8800gt. Also due to the nature of my crash I dont get a crash log since I have to manually restart the computer myself so the computer doesn't make a crash log.