Crash-To-Desktop Issue with Sarmatians

[LilSparkySimmo]

Thanks in advance for any advice. I've been playing RTR platinum for a good few weeks now, Having played almost all of the factions I've settled on Sarmatians being the Faction of which unit's reflect the type of battle's im most comfortable with.

-Problem- Playing Sarmatians, Its the last year of the siege of Maronia (west of Byzantion). The army garrisoned have chosen to unite with another of Ptolemaic Empires Armies to attack my besieging force. After the battle, with with the 3 choices for the settlement, Clicking on one of these options or Saving the game results in a CTD. I've fought the battle 9 times now, to try all the options. Any ideas on resolving this?

Thanks again for any Advice.

[Switch]

This is sadly a common issue, not limited to RTR. The following is an extract from this thread.

4. It has been suggested by Capn Crunch at the rtr forums that the following might be a solution for the reinforcement CTD. The reinforcement CTD(which is not restricted to RTRPE, but happen in other mods too) happens especially when you besiege a city and another AI army attacks you from outside. You defeat both armies and after you completely destroy the army in the city you shouild be able to take it, but instead the game CTDs. I`ll quote here Capn Crunch`s post:

I have exactly the same problem, its always just when I've just spent ages defeating the enemy and it CTDs before I can save it!
I have found a temporary solution to this problem though. I'm guessing you have skip AI movements turned on. Before every siege attack or any battle involving a garrisoned force where winning will mean you taking the settlement press Esc, Game Options, change to follow AI movement. After the battle, assuming you won, it will follow the rest of the enemies move then obviously the Occupy, Enslave or Exterminate option. The CTD should not occur which ever option you choose as long as it followed the AI's movement. Just to be safe this method also gives you time to save before the option appears anyway but since I have been doing that it hasn't done it. As you can probably tell I don't have a clue what I'm talking about but a combination of patience and trail and error came to that conclusion. I'm guessing something happens that the game doesn't like when it skips the AI movement which causes the CTD. This method also hinges on the enemy attacking you in their turn, as far as I know its never CTD after a battle you fight during your own turn. Just remember to change to follow AI movement every time before a siege, you can switch back straight afterwards.

Hope that helps .

[cta]

I never realized that glitch, but usually I have no units under AI command. Nevertheless playing first time samartians in RTR platinum version 1.7 or 1.8 I experienced every 4.-5th battle CTD. Also foot archers charged happely into phalanx when on guard mode and pointed to attack the specific enemy unit (phalanx). PLaying with the same RTR platinum version the germanic faction I did not experince such problems at all. Based on my experiences with RTR gold version it seems for me the samartian faction has still bugs and needs to get sorted to get the same quality like romans, bactria, TSE or germans.

[LilSparkySimmo]

Thanks for the replies. Got it solved by attacking/killing-off the army that came to re-enforce the besieged settlement. Before they joined up.

Switch, Ahh thank you. I'll use that from now on. Fighting a battle that much and using so much time, makes me willing to watch other factions unit's maneuver around the map! Thank you again.

Cta, Cant say I've noticed that ( I stay away from Foot units unless its essential for a battle ), I've noticed that my Calavry archers tend to do it when they still have arrows and skirmish mode off, however. Gets annoying but Micro-Clicking tends to stop it.