Unending End Turn Phase

[spooksman]

Unfortunately, I've finally encountered a bug(?). After patching up with the latest hotfixes (including the endless settlement capture fix), my campaigns seem to be able to only last to turn two.

I tried restarting my Abbasid campaign twice and every single time it will become invariably stuck at turn two.

• Name of your issue (Don't be creative - be specific!) - The Unending End Turn Bug
• Is issue repeatable? (Try to run the saved game, several times to try to repeat the issue) - Yes. Happened about three times in a row.
• What year are you in? - Two turns into the game.
• What faction do you play? - The Abbasids.
• Briefly describe the issue and add comments. (Be specific and detailed!): - I think I've jsut described the issue in detail above. But ehre it is again : After ending turn two, game will "stop working" during the computer faction transitioning phase(the part where all the faction banners transitions). It may stop at the great Seljuk flag or the Rebel banner but one thing's for sure, it will become stuck and just hanged in there indefinitely. Note, however, that I can still move the screen around, zoom in/out, music is still playing...I can access the menu screen and manually quit the game.
• Provide Screenshot if applicable - My photobucket account is acting up a bit and I'll try uploading again.

Game Patch : MTW2 1.2, BC INFINITE SETTLEMENT CAPTURE MESSAGE Quickfix, GEORGIA HEROIC VICTORY/TRAITS CRASH Quickfix

[Miraj]

I can you toggle fow and turn on "follow AI turns" and see what happens.

I think its a faction that's becoming a horde and that freezes the game for like 10-15 minutes. It will be rectified come patch 1.1.

[spooksman]

Will try what you suggested and update.

[spooksman]

I've played another game and sure enough, it got stuck after ending turn 2.

This time, it hanged on Oman and I followed your advice by toggling the FOW and this is what I saw...(and am still seeing as I'm writing this lol) Note : After toggling off FOW, the screen immediately centred on this position so I knew this is where the computer got stuck. May be wrong but am quite sure.

TADA 1!

Brief description : A face off between a rebel army and an Imamate Army on the narrow stretch of coast between Muscat and Suhar...

What I felt was the Imamate army is trying to get to somewhere else and being blocked by the Rebel stack, the AI sort of didnt know what to do then. (logically I suppose they should be fighting each other but doesnt seem to be happening for some reason)...

Going to try some more games.

[spooksman]

Tada 2 :

Another new game as the Abbasids.

As expected, game stuck at the end of turn 2. This time, I was tracking every AI movements right from the start. (very slow, tedious and ZzZ inducing process lol) The game went very fine for majority of the faction until it reached the Rebel faction. Screenshot below :


It looks like it got stuck while processing that city which is being besieged by the AI Rajput faction.

Hope that helps...

[spooksman]

Tada 3! (I'm beginning to see a repeating pattern!)

So I actually decided to make a complete reinstall and got back to the ol' patch 1.2, the settlement capture quickfix and the georgian heroic quickfix.

Playing as the Abbasids again and after ending turn two, as expected, the end turn transition phase got itself stuck at the Rebel banner as well. With toggle_fow off, I see a now familiar sight.



I've no idea why but hope it'll help you guys...and really, the Raj general was acting all "juggly" and "flickering"...something to do with the problem i'm having I guess...
Again note, while this is happening, the game did not "totally" freeze on me and I can still move around, zoom in/out, sound fx still playing, main menu accessible and able to quit to main screen normally.
What I'm going to do now is try to play as the Rajputs and see if by avoiding to lay siege to the rebel settlement, it will help avoid the problem from ever happening in the first place...

[AlphaDelta]

That's a Sindh general, not a Rajput.

Cheers

[spooksman]

You're right, I made a misidentification.

BTW, I started another game again as The Rajputs as I said I would and being the mighty conqueror at heart(lol), I immediately attacked the closest rebel settlement by turn 2(after laying siege at turn 1). After a pretty disastrous victory(coz I'm always that stupid at using OR fighting elephants), battle map transitions to Campaign map and here's the end result :


Again, my victorious army was doing the jiggly gig.

So yeah, apparently its not anything specific regarding factions but apparently any army that captures a settlement will cause the game to freeze. Although, as in the first Omani case, it wasn't really a settlement capture but more looked like after a battle between 2 AI factions though.

Hope that helps.

edit : I liked the indian theme bgm for the raj though, really really nice and proper!

[Miraj]

Are you using a No-CD crack? This happened to me when I once used a no-CD crack...

I've noticed this has not happened to anyone else, so its definitely something wrong with your M2TW .exe.

[spooksman]

Hey Mirage, you're right. I was using this particular 1.2 nocd fix and this one especially is buggy and the "stuck" at turn 2 is a known problem actually.

So what I did was to patch the game to 1.3, use the 1.3 nocd, uninstall/reinstall bc and all the quickfixes you and your team did and TADA! No more problems Apparently fixes aloy of other issues that I was having like disappearing rollover texts and campaign map unit flickering issues as well.

Thanks for the heads up, man.

[Miraj]

Good to see it resolved.