Official All Questions Thread (Maintained by the ACW Team)

[Horatio Hornblower]

Script is good but you have to start Steam first and then start ACW. If you miss it and get a CTD (as you've done) then you have to reboot else you won't be able to play neither vanilla campaign. That is a Steam limitation.

No no!!
It happens that I run ACW without starting steam and I'm able to see and interact with ACW main menu. It crashes when I load a campaign or a battle.
When I run ACW with steam working CTD when I choose between US or CS...I see only a black loading screen and then it crashes.

[Minas Moth]

Just out of curiosity, what are the "US" and "CS" buttons for? What difference do they make?

to start a different campaign... you chose US you play Union, you chose CS you play Confederacy

you are talking about buttons in the launcher, wright?

[shokh]

No no!!
It happens that I run ACW without starting steam and I'm able to see and interact with ACW main menu. It crashes when I load a campaign or a battle.
When I run ACW with steam working CTD when I choose between US or CS...I see only a black loading screen and then it crashes.

It will everytime crash when you start the mod without running steam before. This cannot be changed because o fthe tasks the launcher have to do.
Your problem is the second part then.

[shokh]

same here, it crashes after the battle when the computer is done calculating the other nations turns, freezes up for 5 secs and then crashes.

This sounds similar to old 2.6 crash issues where most of them could be addressed to low computer performance, driver conflicts or such things.
Itīs not that i say this now, but it clearly looks like your pcīs have troubles to do this calculations (which are more then in vanilla).
The problem is i canīt reproduce your error, and to find the reason then is a bit hard. If we have luck it would be gone with the next patch. If not i would suggest to update motherboard drivers and maybe graphic (but here not the newest please).

[Bourgthorin]

This sounds similar to old 2.6 crash issues where most of them could be addressed to low computer performance, driver conflicts or such things.
Itīs not that i say this now, but it clearly looks like your pcīs have troubles to do this calculations (which are more then in vanilla).
The problem is i canīt reproduce your error, and to find the reason then is a bit hard. If we have luck it would be gone with the next patch. If not i would suggest to update motherboard drivers and maybe graphic (but here not the newest please).

Hi,
I thank you a lot for this new MOD!!!! I played with the previous one which crashed often (dont know why).
But I have two problems:
-I cant play with CS ("line 38" problem)
-It is ing SLOW........((. It's lagging a lot and I dont have this trouble with 2.6 niether Shogun II at full details....
Can u help me please????
Thanks!

[Araporn]

This sounds similar to old 2.6 crash issues where most of them could be addressed to low computer performance, driver conflicts or such things.
Itīs not that i say this now, but it clearly looks like your pcīs have troubles to do this calculations (which are more then in vanilla).
The problem is i canīt reproduce your error, and to find the reason then is a bit hard. If we have luck it would be gone with the next patch. If not i would suggest to update motherboard drivers and maybe graphic (but here not the newest please).

I had the crashing as well in 2.6 but only after like 17 or 27 turns. my pc can run the game fine on medium, it is a laptop though so that might be it but it doesn't have a low-end GPU. i can play shogun 2 on medium as well.
Drivers are fully updated and pc should have enough power to handle it ( i can handle Third Age Total War fine)
Only this mod gives my pc troubles

PS. it was a sally forth battle from the defending forces of Richmond, so no regular battle, might be worth noting.
I havent been able to do a field battle yet because of the absence of recruiting of the CAI

PPS. apparently i also cant recruit anymore generals, is there a limit? or is it because all the recruitable units push it out of the unit recruitment section?

Edit: I did a normal field battle against some CSA rebels and nothing happened. no crash so apparently it doesnt crash when you initiate the battle, it crashed when the enemy sallied forth and attacked me. i.e. when i was defending after a siege.
But it did crash when i ended my turn turn 18

[Horatio Hornblower]

It will everytime crash when you start the mod without running steam before. This cannot be changed because o fthe tasks the launcher have to do.
Your problem is the second part then.

Course shokh!!
I'm just saying it's a pretty strange thing...I mean, without steam I can see ACW main menu, with steam it crashes immediately
Anyway, is that a problem solvable with patch 3.1 or you suggest to uninstall and reinstall Empire and then ACW?

[shokh]

When i have problems with any mod then i check first if i did all right. After that i try to reinstall the mod, if it still persist then i re-download the whole thing to avoid possible corrupted files and re-install all.
When this also not help, then i start crying.

[manahga]

Was able to play around again last night. Unfortunately, I wasn't able to use the process explorer to determine what working directory the empire executable was using when started through the ACW launcher. It would crash to quickly for me to get the information. However, I tested my theory a bit further. After attempting to start the game through the ACW launcher and letting it crash, I attempted to run Empire normally through the Empire shortcut in the start menu...and it worked!!! I believe this more than confirms my original theory. I really think that the way you guys are starting the empire executable from the ACW launcher is the problem and the working directory for the empire executable ends up being the "empire total war\ACW" directory instead of just "empire total war". I asked before, but didn't get an answer. What development environment are you using for the ACW launcher? I may be able to help.

[shokh]

First of all i did not made this launcher, but i guess it will work like my launchers did in some ways.

The launcher is in "empire total war/acw", so i think it (after loading our mod pack into "empire total war/data" simple use the old command "cd.." to go step back one folder and then "start empire.exe".
Would be the simplest way, but will only work if "data" and "acw" is a direct subfolder of "empire total war" which must contain then the empire.exe.
This is the problem when people report "empire.exe" not found, then the mod mostly is installed not into the right folder.

[Horatio Hornblower]

When i have problems with any mod then i check first if i did all right. After that i try to reinstall the mod, if it still persist then i re-download the whole thing to avoid possible corrupted files and re-install all.
When this also not help, then i start crying.

Ok thanks!!

[Bourgthorin]

Hi,
I thank you a lot for this new MOD!!!! I played with the previous one which crashed often (dont know why).
But I have two problems:
-I cant play with CS ("line 38" problem)
-It is ing SLOW........((. It's lagging a lot and I dont have this trouble with 2.6 niether Shogun II at full details....
Can u help me please????
Thanks!

[tap11]

This sounds similar to old 2.6 crash issues where most of them could be addressed to low computer performance, driver conflicts or such things.
Itīs not that i say this now, but it clearly looks like your pcīs have troubles to do this calculations (which are more then in vanilla).
The problem is i canīt reproduce your error, and to find the reason then is a bit hard. If we have luck it would be gone with the next patch. If not i would suggest to update motherboard drivers and maybe graphic (but here not the newest please).

But the PC has no difficulty when calculating if I just sim the battle.

[shokh]

In this case he have only to calculate the battle results and after that army re-development.
If you end a battle, then he also have to load the campaign back into your RAM.
Maybe these may lead to conflicts or an overflow.
Iīm not 100% sure but there are some signs.

[tap11]

In this case he have only to calculate the battle results and after that army re-development.
If you end a battle, then he also have to load the campaign back into your RAM.
Maybe these may lead to conflicts or an overflow.
Iīm not 100% sure but there are some signs.

You know a million times more about computers than me, but wouldn't the game crash during my turn if that was the case? I would fight the battle and then it would crash before I could get back to the campaign map. As it is, I could fight a battle, get back to my campaign screen, upgrade buildings and whatnot, and then hit end turn. So in other words I am doing things in the campaign after a battle.

[shokh]

I may not read this before, okay.
This getting stranger.

[StarkT]

Its completly not working for me !
i deleted all files that game aske me , and now what ? its comletly not woking

[Dave Strider]

to start a different campaign... you chose US you play Union, you chose CS you play Confederacy

you are talking about buttons in the launcher, wright?

Yes...you might honestly want to take it out. It screws up Multiplayer. I tried it with [ETW] Medieval Man and it reported that we had different game versions...

[shokh]

Its completly not working for me !
i deleted all files that game aske me , and now what ? its comletly not woking

Iīm a bit confused. The game told you to delete files?

[JOPAKE]

Ever since I downloaded the mod, I wasn't able to load any vanilla campaign saves without it crashing with the "Empire: Total War has stopped working message" coming up, even when I set empire to vanilla ready.