TAR worked great first day, second day it CTD and now none of my Total War games work, please help
To provide a bit more clarifiction:
The first day I played TAR it worked fine other than a few minor glitches.
Noting the glitches to be thorough. The Mod replaces leader and agent faces in their descriptions with historical portraits. Several leaders and agents got blank faces as if the replacement photos did not populate. Also some new towns appeared on the map early but without building options which showed up later when they became available through the game.
After installing the Mod I opened it and ran the Grand Campaign as Great Britain. Invaded France and started a battle to see if it worked. It did so I surrendered and quit the game.
Then I repeated those steps to see if it still worked, opening Game, invading France, starting a battle and quiting again.
Satisfied that it worked I started TAR again. I changed options to the hybrid Battle AI and updated map and started the Grand Campaign again. The updated map put me in much too strong of a position and I noticed an upgraded navy option was activated which seemed too cluttered for me so I ended the campaign.
I restarted the Campaign with Vanilla Map and Navy options selected and chose four seasons per year game turn and again the Hybrid Battle AI...
The game generally worked fine. But every now and then there was a glitch. My screensaver would pop on during the AI turn. I would push a key to make the screen saver go away. I was presented with my desktop with the TAR main menu screen open. At the bottom of my screen there were two icons that looked like they were there to return me to the game. One was TAR and one was ETW. (I lack the technical term here but similar to when one might be using more than one document on Microsoft word at a time so you could bounce between documents by clicking the icons to take you to different documents). I clicked the TAR icon and nothing happened. Then I clicked an Empire Total War icon and it sent me back to the game. This happened more than once but I played the game for hours. I saved the campaign several times. I saved battles and watched the replays.
Then I took a break for several days due to Easter.
When I returned I clicked continue campaign and it worked. Every now and then had the screen saver issue again. It may have become more frequent. After about an hour and a half the screen saver glitch happened but no way to get back because this time no Empire Total War Icon appeared. If I remember correctly the first time it may have appeared but when I clicked it I got a twirling compass icon and when it CTD the Empire Total War Icon was gone. So I had no way to return to the game. I tried loading the campaign, got the introduction video but nothing else. So tried to restart the campaign, the video introduction played but nothing else. I tried closing TAR and playing Vanilla Game. It played the introductory video but would not work. I went back to TAR and tried a custom battle. It allowed me to select units but CTD when I tried to start the battle.
So I shut TAR down again. Decided to play Rome TW 2 and found to my disappointment even that is now broken.
Thank you for reading all this. How can I fix this? Toon told me to use TAR to uninstall itself but when I did that ten or so years ago I could not play Vanilla afterward.
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