Game locks up upon capturing city

[manfrensengen]

Hi. I'm playing RTRGold--have been since it came out. I've rarely had any ctd's or lock ups with it until recently.

Anyway, I'm in year 268bc, and i'm trying to finish off Rome. The problem is that the game locks up while capturing Ariminum. I'd like to finish these Roman bastards off quick because they keep bribing settlements away from me in an attempt to stay alive.

I tried using the console to force a capture of the city, but, it didn't work. I may be typing it in incorrectly. This should work at the console i think:

capture_settlement ariminum

I'm patched to 1.2.

TIA.

[Pat89]

Don't know a lot about it... But what worked some times for me is waiting another (few) turns and try to capture it. First play-test and just concentrate on capturing it so you don't loose a lot of effort put in something else

It doesn't always work... but it's worth trying

[manfrensengen]

Thanks, that worked. Rome is no more--although they ended up bribing two more settlements back before I assassinated their diplomat. Very irritating. I'm happy i can continue this campaign(Greek) as I've never gone straight after Rome before. I usually secure Sicily first, then take on a much stronger Rome. Time to settle down and build up the provinces now.

Thanks again!

[Pat89]

Cheers,
And good luck with it