5.1 Bugs // Square Smoke-Effects Fixes// HOTFIXES thread..

[wolfslayer]

Please post screens and decribe problems with visual effects in SS51 here..

The latest BETA fix is 1.4..Echad should have it in his next fix pack..

[Echad]

I doubt I will update my fix pack just with this stuff... Maybe anyone can send me some more fixes?

[Fluke]

Is this available as a seperate file?

[wolfslayer]

I'm working on v1.5. 1.4 has a few quirks.

[Fluke]

I liked the dark black smoke of 1.4. Please post a link to 1.5 when it is ready. Also, could you provide the vanilla texture files you recommend copying into your SS 5.1 data folder to cure the square smoke? My vanilla isn't unpacked and I don't have access to some of them.

[Echad]

My New Year Pack comes with wolfslayer's 1.4 fix and vanilla textures required:

http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?t=138528

[wolfslayer]

My New Year Pack comes with wolfslayer's 1.4 fix and vanilla textures required:

http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?t=138528

I got another 500gb sata drive over the holidays so I'm going to reinstall MTW2/Kingdoms/SS51 on it, plus move all the game files to the edge of the disks, and try copying the unpacked vanilla /data over to SS51 before I reinstall it, and see if that improves stability (it will). So I'm going to be sidelined till I get all this done, might be a few days, but I'll be checking in here in the meantime. ;-)

[DrunkNIrishMan]

Using the fix from Echad's pack v1.5 I get the square glitch on flaming arrows and trebuchet shots. Playing as England in the Late Campaign.

[Schweizergarde]

Using New Year's Pack (1.4 fix from Echad's description of the file), I have a weird bug where if the camera is facing incoming flaming arrows, sometimes a bunch of orange lines and shapes would fill the screen (i'll try to capture a screenshot next time). Then it caused a CTD crash in a campaign battle, and after rebooting the saved campaign games are stuck in a loop of loading and reloading.

The first CTD also prompt a display driver error message from vista.

I'm going to reinstall SS, but just wondering if my problem is an isolated case.

Edit: reinstalled and have the exact same problem: camera when facing incoming fire arrows will cause a CTD, then causes loading loops thereafter. My game was stable with Echad's 1.5 pack and the only addition was new Lusted AI, optional Greek Fire/KoJ family tree/Reduced Dust, and wolfslayer's 1.4 fix.
Just wanted confirmation on whether other people are getting this, because after the CTD i'm getting display driver errors on desktop until I reboot the computer. Checked for driver update and no luck.

[wolfslayer]

Your log has the standard errors of a game that plays ok..note the times at the end

18:13:02.455 [system.io] [warning] open: data/textures/#weather.tga.dds is missing
18:14:06.810 [system.rpt] [error] Medieval 2: Total War encountered an unspecified error and will now exit.

I need to check out that GreekFire file and see if it conflicts with mine.

Check out my CTD thread and try running File Monitor while your play the battle that crashes, I explain the best way to do it.

This is already 3 pages back http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?t=138615

[Echad]

Your log has the standard errors of a game that plays ok..note the times at the end

18:13:02.455 [system.io] [warning] open: data/textures/#weather.tga.dds is missing
18:14:06.810 [system.rpt] [error] Medieval 2: Total War encountered an unspecified error and will now exit.

I need to check out that GreekFire file and see if it conflicts with mine.

Check out my CTD thread and try running File Monitor while your play the battle that crashes, I explain the best way to do it.

This is already 3 pages back http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?t=138615

GreekFire ONLY affects EDB, it lets Greek Flamethrowers to be build before the gunpoweder.

Await for your next release!

[DrunkNIrishMan]

Well, you may have already known this but I figured I'd post it anyway. The square glitch isn't just present on flaming projectiles, it appears whenever the game renders black smoke, i.e. when a building catches fire during siege.