Battle Freeze Up

**Kennylz** · April 06, 2008, 06:50 PM

Before I describe it, let me get this clear. It wasn't a CTD. The game froze up, but the music continued and the cursor was still animated. I've also not had any problems in battles before except for this one battle that I tried to do twice and got the same freeze up each time.

Pretty much it is my one general with a cavalry heavy army and a bunch of really crap line infantry vs two full stacks of rebels with large stars and a skit load of infantry.

Basically they hunker down and I unload my 4 baillistae on them and kill about 30% of their army. Then, when we all get to moving and are about to throw down, with my cavalry rushing to flank them.

FREEZE UP. So damn dissapointing. Especially since I used a bunch of good pictures from that battle for my AAR already.

Why is the gaming freezing? The FPS's weren't bad. I've had more people on the screen at once. I think if I just auto-resolve or take the stacks on one at a time it won't freeze up, but that battle just locks my screen every time.

**Kennylz** · April 06, 2008, 11:38 PM

Bah, and now I get CTD's at the end of battles... Looks like I'll have to abandon my AAR.

**ivanhoex** · April 10, 2008, 01:06 AM

Originally Posted by Kennylz

Bah, and now I get CTD's at the end of battles... Looks like I'll have to abandon my AAR.

i have CTD in a biz vs lit custom battle, right at the end too.

were you using my files or not? this way we may be able to discard several very important files.

(it wasnt repeatable apparently)

if you CTD plz run the same battle again with trace errors on and share your last 100 lines of log

i have posted here http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?t=157581 to see if my formations file has anything to do with it (if you are using old version of DLV 5.5 then you are not using my files and they are clean)

**Xtiaan72** · April 10, 2008, 02:11 AM

That's actually hopeful that the multi-army crashes are supposedly addressed in the new patch.

**Furin** · April 10, 2008, 10:03 AM

Got my first freeze in 5.6+beta 2. Was a bridge battle, which strenghtens my theory that it is a pathfinding issue. Anyway, maybe the patch fixes it.

**blueoran** · April 07, 2008, 01:17 AM

The same thing happen to me ... especially groups more than 3 are in battle.

**d3v** · April 07, 2008, 07:42 AM

it's the CPU overheating from all the data it has to process from 3+ stacks. it locks the system up and u can only reboot with the power button. check your HDD activity indicator next time you get these freezes and you'll notice there is zero activity.

**Furin** · April 07, 2008, 02:53 PM

It does not neccesarily have to be a hardware issue. Are you still playing 5.4? I am asking because I had random lockups in 5.4 too (mostly in siege battles), pretty often actually but since I changed to 5.5 I had not a single one yet.

**Kennylz** · April 07, 2008, 07:24 PM

It wasn't overheating. I could task manager out of it and I've had battles with a lot more people in them.

I'm playing 5.5. I've been dissilusioned after the issues began to pop up more frequently, so I've bailed on my campaign until the final version of DLV.

**Xtiaan72** · April 07, 2008, 08:12 PM

I had lockups with huge battles on 5.4 as well. At the time I thought it was a hardware problem but after investigation ( turning off unlimited troops on battlefield ect) I found that it probably wasn't hardware related. Are you playing the patched up version of 5.4?

**Furin** · April 07, 2008, 09:19 PM

I doub't there will be a "final" version in the near future, too many ideas and modders. I wish I could help but like I said, I didn't have any more freezes since I switched to .5 (well .6 beta already butt hat another story).

**Kennylz** · April 07, 2008, 10:22 PM

I'm playing 5.0, patched up to 5.5.

**blueoran** · April 08, 2008, 11:41 AM

Why it freezed whenever over 3 more groups in battle ?

1. test at
Q6600 G0 (o.c 3.2Ghz) + 4G ram + 8800gts 320mb + GIGA DS3R mainboard

2. clean DLV 5.5 +5.6 beta2 . no more edited

3. main campaign battle

batlle AI caused thee ?

good job repman

**Kennylz** · April 08, 2008, 08:01 PM

Custom battles work fine. It is battles on the campaign that started to get crashy and freezy.

This is not the computers fault. I've faught masses of Mongols before and the fps's showed no sign of a computer having a hard time.

**ivanhoex** · April 10, 2008, 12:59 AM

look at the 5.6 beta thread.

in third page i quote the new patch

"fixes crashes when battles with reinforcements"

hope that helps.

probably soon on DLV, but apparently not a DLV issue here.

i never even noticed they launching patch 1.4... its not on their page