"Fatal Graphics Error"

[hhawks12]

Hi All,

I've had M2TW since release, so far have had no problems with it, however I have encountered an error which despite there being a few topics on, I cannot find a solution

Just a bit of background on the situation, the Timurids are beseiging my Spanish city of Antioch, I have thrown them from the walls twice already, and preparing to fight them for a third time to keep the city. I enter the battle, plays normally at first, I set my troops up, watch the Timurids blast the walls into oblivion with rockets, then once they run out of rockets the whole army starts charging towards the walls. Pretty much just a big huge mass of horses,

When they get into ballista tower range (maybe a bit before), the game crashes with a "Fatal Graphics Error". Basically what it says is "M2TW has encountered a fatal graphics error. Please turn down your settings before attempting to fight more battles". Here's the kicker, with everything low/off, I get the same error, at the same exact time in the same exact battle.

I am not sure why this would be happening, I have had M2TW at the same graphics settings since release (1024 x 768, 4x AF 0x AA, everything high except textures which is on medium), and actually fought a few battles at Antioch right before this one (Timurids brought multiple armies to both of the previous seiges, this seige they are only bringing one). I've also run a few test seiges with max level cities and 3000 total troops compared to the 1300 which are at Antioch and cannot reproduce the error.

AMD 64 3800+ 2.4ghz
eVGA 6800GT 256mb with latest drivers (162.18)
2 GB RAM
I'm also running the latest version of LTC.

Any help would be appreciated, thanks.

[D.B. Cooper]

I don't know much in this area, but has it happened again? If it's a one time thing then just forget about it. I've had weird stuff happen while I'm using the computer, and it never happens again. So I shrug my shoulders and forget about it.

[hhawks12]

This error occurs everytime, and at the same exact time, in this particular battle. I am beginning to think its an LTC problem because a few people have posted crashes during defensive seige battles, though my error is different than theirs I think it might be caused by the same thing.

[ben123]

Yes I've got the same problem... I've read in the forums you could delete data\descr_geography_new.txt
data\descr_geography_new.db
but I haven't tried it yet.

Win XP SP1
AMD 3500
2gb RAM
7900gt

(This should be ample to play the game no?)

Good luck

[sapi]

If you have unpacked, you must delete the two descr_geography files as indicated by the readme, ben.

[Talstran]

I have recently got that error, I have been able to play M2TW with no problems on vista before adding patch 1.2. Now this error flashes every time I seige and the AI Sallys out. I have tried to uninstall and reinstall (even so far as to delete all traces I could find after uninstall) but the game seems to find my old French campaing save and I feel the files I don't want either...man was it an error to update...