CTD as soon as shortcut clicked

[Frunk]

Hey there,

I've just installed both parts of Expanded Americas 3.0 and upon clicking the shortcut on my desktop, I see the splash screen for a few seconds before the application closes. I'm running a full M2TW + Kingdoms install with Patch 1.5 installed. I read and followed the instructions in the Display Read-me, copying the folder mods/expanded_americas3/display/data and pasting it in my main M2TW directory.

Can anybody help me get the game running?

Cheers and thanks, Reece.

[Eothese]

Have you tried the .bat file in the expanded_americas folder? If that works you probably installed to a non-default location. Also there may be some useful info in the system.log.txt

[Frunk]

Hey there, just tried your suggestion mate and unfortunately the same happened when using the .BAT file in the expanded_americas3 folder... As for the log, I didn't have the logs folder in my M2TW directory as I can remember from previous installs, so I created one, and tried again. However, no log appeared in that folder thereafter.

[Eothese]

The log isn't always inside the log folder, sometimes its in the main MTW2 folder...

[Frunk]

Not in this case sadly.

[Praios]

Hello out there!

I just downloaded the mod, I installed it, but it... doesn't want to work.

Problem is the same as mentioned above. After klicking on the link, regardless from where, I see a splash-screen for a glimps of a second, than the game returns to desktop.

Fortunately, I managed to force him to put out a logfile. To do so, I rewrite the [log].section in the .cfg-file like this:

[log]
## log potentially critical errors for debugging
to            = F:\Spiele\TotalWar2\mods\expanded_americas3\Grr.txt
level     = * trace
level     = * error

So, finally I got a logfile with the following text:

15:07:38.402 [system.rpt] [always] CPU: SSE2
15:07:38.402 [system.rpt] [always] ==== system log start, build date: Feb 25 2008 version development ===
15:07:38.457 [system.io] [always] mounted pack packs/data_0.pack
15:07:38.491 [system.io] [always] mounted pack packs/data_1.pack
15:07:38.515 [system.io] [always] mounted pack packs/data_2.pack
15:07:38.516 [system.io] [always] mounted pack packs/data_3.pack
15:07:38.517 [system.io] [always] mounted pack packs/data_4.pack
15:07:38.530 [system.io] [always] mounted pack packs/localized.pack
15:07:47.328 [script.err] [error] Script Error in mods/expanded_americas3/data/descr_mount.txt, at line 133, column 1
Could not find battle model for mount 'Mount_order_Barded_Horse'.
15:07:47.329 [script.err] [error] Script Error in mods/expanded_americas3/data/descr_mount.txt, at line 148, column 1
Could not find battle model for mount 'Mount_alt_Barded_Horse'.
15:07:47.329 [script.err] [error] Script Error in mods/expanded_americas3/data/descr_mount.txt, at line 178, column 1
Could not find battle model for mount 'Mount_order_Mailed_Horse'.
15:07:48.089 [script.err] [error] Script Error in mods/expanded_americas3/data/export_descr_unit.txt, at line 13110, column 1
Could not find soldier battle model for unit type 'Knights_of_Jerusalem'.

15:07:48.089 [data.invalid] [error] DATABASE_TABLE error found : error reading record from file mods/expanded_americas3/data/export_descr_unit.txt.

I could eliminate the first errors by overwriting the model-information in the file with other ones (other mounts), but couldn't get the Knights_of_Jerusalem this way.

Looking forward to see scot pikeniers to face aztec eagle-warriors, I hope someone can help me to get this mod run

It is the medieval gold-edition, patched to 1.05, I tried one time with unpacked MAIN-files, one time with packed, and besides the mod, the game runs pretty.

Thank you in advance,
Praios

[Eothese]

You dont have part 2 installed in the correct place, that's why it can't find the battlemodel for 'Knights_of_Jerusalem' and the mounts. This has been covered many times before, just take a look around.

[Praios]

Thank you, hadn't noticed, that the path for the second part had to be in the data-subfolder of the mod-directory. Now, everythings fine.

[Overreal]

I think the person that started this topic has the same problem as I do? Reece do you have windows 7?

[Frunk]

No, Vista. I'm going to try reinstalling the mod to see if I did indeed do the same thing wrong, though.

[Wilhelm Ritter]

I had this same problem, I re-installed in the correct directory and it works!
Great mod btw!

[Eothese]

Thanks