Harvest crashing - definative solution

[mister_riz]

Hi, I'm posting this because I've seen more people with the problem of the game crashing at the harvest screen. I found the complete solution to this a while ago and thought I'd post it here.

If your game crashes on the harvest screen (together with the sound not being played properly), the problem is with the sound files' codec. The game uses Media Player Classic to open sound files, it is this program that is crashing and not STW.

Find the harvest sound files, then use an audio conversion program (like Cdex) to convert them to WAVs, then back to mp3s (I think they're mp3s anyway) and drop the new files back into the STW folder they were originally in, retaining their names of course. Cdex will read the original 'broken' files and when it re-encodes them back to mp3 it will use a codec that media player classic can read.

Enjoy!