system log ???

[elcid123]

my game froze during the campaign and i copied the log. does anyone know what the missing files are??? im guessing thats why the game crashed.


15:44:44.796 [system.rpt] [always] CPU: SSE2
15:44:44.812 [system.rpt] [always] ==== system log start, build date: Apr 23 2007 version bld-medieval2-update2-84 (37970) ===
15:44:44.828 [system.io] [always] mounted pack packs/data_0.pack
15:44:44.828 [system.io] [always] mounted pack packs/data_1.pack
15:44:44.828 [system.io] [always] mounted pack packs/data_2.pack
15:44:44.828 [system.io] [always] mounted pack packs/data_3.pack
15:44:44.828 [system.io] [always] mounted pack packs/data_4.pack
15:44:44.828 [system.io] [always] mounted pack packs/localized.pack
15:44:44.859 [system.io] [warning] open: preferences/player.txt is missing
15:44:44.859 [system.io] [warning] open: preferences/keys.dat is missing
15:44:44.859 [system.io] [warning] open: preferences/keys.dat is missing
15:44:44.921 [system.rpt] [error] Medieval 2: Total War encountered an unspecified error and will now exit.

[zowrath]

The missing files should be generated once you start the game, as they specify your settings. It should not be the cause of your crash. Are you using Vista? Some say there's special considerations then if you are not logged on as administrator.

Me, and many others, have been much plagued by the unspecified error. I've tried to research as much as I could into this to correct my problem. It seems we are divided in to two camps. Those that have absolutely no problems what so ever, and those that can not get rid of this unspecified error problem.

And since the log does not specify anything, there's very little we can do except through trial and error try to find what causes it. Some people are reporting this error really started to pop up after patch v1.2

To be honest I can not remember that I ever had much crashes during 1.0 and 1.1 either. But after patch 1.2 I certainly have much problems. Now the strange part for me is when i go back to v1.1 with my mods they are still not working. One mod is still working, but only under v1.0 And these are mods that where previously working on all versions.

I wonder why MTW2 is so sensitive to errors, while in RTW for example i never experienced any of this. Good luck to you. Try to google as much as you can, and please report back if you get it to work.

[sapi]

Very little information in the log; it's not a corrupted install, but I can't tell you any more.

@zowrath - M2TW isn't really more susceptible to errors; it simply reports them rather than silently CTDing, as RTW did.