Consistent CTD from this savefile:

**dearmad** · June 10, 2006, 10:29 PM

I posted this in the technical thread but could not attach the file, so:

I have a consistent CTD with 7.5 + hotfix.

I installed: RTW, BI, the 1.5/1.6 patch, DM 7.0, DM 7.5, hotfix.

Was clean install.

Game is short campaign, it's quite a few turns into the game. Using manual savegames NOT auto/quicksaves. The savegame crashes consistentlty.

Anyone care to take a look? *very* annoying to have this happen.

**DARTH VADER** · June 11, 2006, 05:18 AM

Have no clue...it seems there is a campaign issue not really unterstood what.
Also I have seen that you have built a lot of archers, cavalry auxilia etc.?(Seems like odd unit proportion for human army)
If yes ok..but if not this shows incombatibility with the real DarthMod_7.5...the slightest change of file can cause this.
I have the original and I sense from the saved game you passed you have incombatibility with the DarthMod_7.5 +fix

**dearmad** · June 11, 2006, 12:11 PM

Yes I did build a few cav auxilia for the desert patrolling in Africa. I find them handy. And archers make cheap city guards, since my cities rarely ever get sieged unless I know they are about to and I have my army there anyway. The two gladiators were a gift from the Senate. But I tried disbanding them and clicking next turn and it still crashes.

Would my choice of units really affect the crashing? That would seem very odd.

I wonder how many campaigns get finished with darthmod these days- it's crashed on me in mine since v7.0. ANyone finishing campaigns regularly playing a the romans?

This crash did happen very closely after the Marian reforms occured and as I was reforming my armies.

**DARTH VADER** · June 11, 2006, 12:50 PM

No it does not make sense for unit proportion to have a CTD. What seemed odd as a human army proportion to have 6 archer units in a roman army and this happens when
There is incombatibilty between version by replacing of units with other.

The campaigns are still lasting till the end although there is sometimes a critical CTD that occurs and maybe a crappy vice and virtue randomness from 1.5 patch.
This may happen and I have not touched these files for this reason.
If there was a CVP mod for 1.5 I could use it.

**dearmad** · June 11, 2006, 03:50 PM

Oh man, the V&V's could be causing problems? What about the cherry vanilla fixes of old that fixed these or something.

So yes, the units and such were working fine- I didn't mess with those at all- I was using lots of archers and cavalry aux. I enjoy playing with wierd tactics and such. The CTD happens right during the computer's turn which, in my experience has tended to be unit related things when I mod the game myself. But I wonder what it could be.

I love the mod, but this breaks it for me- as investing 10+ hoursinto a game can so often net a permanent CTD.

I should say there was another CTD a few turns ago, and I reloaded a savegame after rebooting and moved on from there OK- but this one is unfixable. I think the computer player is doing somethig that is not supported in the mod or wherever so: CTD. Maybe a battle is occuring somewhere with some particular units? Or it's trying to build a unit for the first time (remeber this is post Marian) that is not supported?

Last question, the patch I installed makes RTW v1.5 and BI v1.6, that's the patch DM operates off of right?

**Lusted** · June 11, 2006, 03:53 PM

Darth Vader, the CVP, and the GAFH mod that improves the traits a lot do work with 1.5, there are a few small edits to the ancilliary files you need to make but that is all.

**DARTH VADER** · June 11, 2006, 03:55 PM

Can you test it by adapting this then play the save file? Although this would acquire to be more sure to restart a campaign but you never know.
Maybe this will help.