CTD..... please help

[Pelican Man]

Hello everybody,

I need to know why my game is CTD'ing. I have M2TW patched to 1.2 (didn't delete anything, didn't follow any instructions, so bear with me, no internet at home) unpacked, then installed TLR 2.0.0 and I started playing when I was sieging Thorn and the rebels decided to try and repel the siege, so they sallied forth and attacked. I'm waiting for the battle to load, then once it got to the battle screen it started flashing (the screen) then it CTD'd. Did I miss something in the instructions of installation? I didn't delete anything, so maybe I should have, but I wasn't sure. Do not have internet at home. Anyways, please help a brotha out.

Thank you,

THE P-MAN

[tornnight]

Did you happen to install the addon pack? It can be hard on the video cards.

Can you do custom battles OK?

[Pelican Man]

well, haven't tried the custom battles, and I did not add the add on. I am not really anal about the graphics. Gameplay is all I need.

[tornnight]

Hmm. Did you happen to have other mods installed before TLR?

Sometimes other mods install things into the main data folder which cause compatibility problems. If so, the best way is to reinstall MTW2 from scratch.

[Pelican Man]

I only play this mod.

[tornnight]

Hmm. Those are the easy questions. I would suggest trying some custom battles. And try looking at the log file.

[Pelican Man]

now when looking at he log file, What am I specifically looking for, and where can I find the log file? I will also do some custom battles just to see if it only CTD's from the rebel force from THORN.

[tornnight]

The log file is located in

SEGA/Medieval II Total War/logs/The_Long_Road.log.txt

Look for any thing marked [error] and anything near the end of the log file.

[Pelican Man]

awesome.... I will get back to you guys tomorrow.

Thank you,

THE P-MAN

EDIT: I was researching some more, and I discovered that you have to delete two files. I will try that then I will test it out, and if it continues to CTD, I will continue with ZE investigaion (I just had the urge right now to watch Snatch. lol)

[Pelican Man]

Just like I figured out, it was those two files, the descr_geography_new.txt, and descr_geography_new.db. So I deleted those, and I played as Poland. I got real lucky yesterday too because My wife had a friend over, for 3 hours!!!! boooya. Guess what I did then for the whole time! lol = ) anyways, I'm really enjoying the campaign, some things I don't like, but i will live with. I'll explain later, got a lot of work to do.

THE P-MAN

[tornnight]

Ahh you unpacked. You aren't required to unpack btw.
I always recommend unpacking to an alternate folder anyway.

[Pelican Man]

oh.

But it still works!!!! = ) anyways, can't remember if I asked this already, but can rebels move around yet???

[tornnight]

Nope not yet.

[Pelican Man]

ahhhhhh so thats the rabbit.

= )

[Flamberge72]

Been also having problems with CTD s ...after a few turns

Installed The Long Road over clean , patched MTW II ...never seems to work

Anybody able to help me out here ? Here s the log :

15:50:56.046 [system.rpt] [always] ==== system log start, build date: Apr 23 2007 version bld-medieval2-update2-84 (37970) ===
15:50:56.093 [system.io] [always] mounted pack packs/data_0.pack
15:50:56.125 [system.io] [always] mounted pack packs/data_1.pack
15:50:56.140 [system.io] [always] mounted pack packs/data_2.pack
15:50:56.171 [system.io] [always] mounted pack packs/data_3.pack
15:50:56.187 [system.io] [always] mounted pack packs/data_4.pack
15:50:56.203 [system.io] [always] mounted pack packs/localized.pack
16:29:49.125 [data.invalid] [error] BATTLE_MAP_AREAS unhandled situation : See Charlie

17:03:32.828 [game.script] [error] Script execution error for <console_command>, at line 60, in The_Long_Road/data/world/maps/campaign/imperial_campaign/campaign_script.txt:
remove_ancillary this leadership_anc4
err: character not found

17:12:10.265 [game.script] [error] Trigger processing error in <0150_Crusade_Created>
: <faction> is unavailable from event <CrusadeCalled>
17:12:17.843 [game.script] [error] Trigger processing error in <0150_Crusade_Created>
: <faction> is unavailable from event <CrusadeCalled>
17:32:30.109 [game.script] [error] Script execution error for <console_command>, at line 60, in The_Long_Road/data/world/maps/campaign/imperial_campaign/campaign_script.txt:
remove_ancillary this leadership_anc4
err: character not found

17:33:42.109 [game.script] [error] Script execution error for <console_command>, at line 60, in The_Long_Road/data/world/maps/campaign/imperial_campaign/campaign_script.txt:
remove_ancillary this leadership_anc4
err: character not found

17:35:07.140 [game.script] [error] Script execution error for <console_command>, at line 60, in The_Long_Road/data/world/maps/campaign/imperial_campaign/campaign_script.txt:
remove_ancillary this leadership_anc4
err: character not found

17:36:23.031 [game.script] [error] Script execution error for <console_command>, at line 60, in The_Long_Road/data/world/maps/campaign/imperial_campaign/campaign_script.txt:
remove_ancillary this leadership_anc4
err: character not found

17:37:54.656 [game.script] [error] Script execution error for <console_command>, at line 60, in The_Long_Road/data/world/maps/campaign/imperial_campaign/campaign_script.txt:
remove_ancillary this leadership_anc4
err: character not found

17:48:53.859 [game.script] [error] Trigger processing error in <0150_Crusade_Created>
: <faction> is unavailable from event <CrusadeCalled>
17:50:27.453 [system.rpt] [error] Medieval 2: Total War hat einen unbestimmten Fehler entdeckt und wird jetzt beendet.


As I am a total utter no expert ...could anybody with a lot more skills than me help me out ?

[tornnight]

Ahh you have the german version.

Some people have had to use the vanilla sound files for that version.
See the "Known Issues" Link on the download thread.