SS Extremely Unstable

**TWFanatic** · July 04, 2008, 10:51 AM

Hello,

I've had constant CTD's in SS lately. In adittion to the CTD described here...
http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?t=174894
...I have also had numerous other CTD's. The most frequent and annoying ones come at the end of battles when I kill the enemy general. Oftentimes I kill him and my game CTD's immediantly after the narrator voice says, "The foolish enemy general has thrown his life away!" etc. I also get CTD's fairly frequently on the menu.

I have tried reinstalling and I still have these problems. I am on the verge of uninstalling SS. Does anyone else have these bugs or know how they can be fixed?

**Santiago de Pola** · July 04, 2008, 11:47 AM

Originally Posted by TWFanatic

I also get CTD's fairly frequently on the menu.

That was reported so many times before!

**TWFanatic** · July 04, 2008, 02:29 PM

Originally Posted by Santiago de Pola

That was reported so many times before!

That was the LEAST problematic of the bugs. Why choose to respond to that alone?

**Santiago de Pola** · July 04, 2008, 02:52 PM

Originally Posted by TWFanatic

That was the LEAST problematic of the bugs. Why choose to respond to that alone?

Cuz I can't help you with the rest!

I never had those ctd's(except faction menu ctd, which is a well known unsolvable bug) you described, so it must be a bad installation!

All I can say is try installing again and hope for the best!

**TWFanatic** · July 04, 2008, 04:54 PM

Lol, OK. I'll try re-installing one last, fourth time.

**OSDEA7** · July 04, 2008, 09:39 PM

Originally Posted by TWFanatic

Lol, OK. I'll try re-installing one last, fourth time.

It's not a bad install problem.Already did the reinstall.Still happens.

**OSDEA7** · July 04, 2008, 09:37 PM

Originally Posted by TWFanatic

Hello,

I've had constant CTD's in SS lately. In adittion to the CTD described here...
http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?t=174894
...I have also had numerous other CTD's. The most frequent and annoying ones come at the end of battles when I kill the enemy general. Oftentimes I kill him and my game CTD's immediantly after the narrator voice says, "The foolish enemy general has thrown his life away!" etc. I also get CTD's fairly frequently on the menu.

I have tried reinstalling and I still have these problems. I am on the verge of uninstalling SS. Does anyone else have these bugs or know how they can be fixed?

I have had the same CTD's in battles after killing the enemy general the game freezes.But not just at the end of a battle but at anytime you kill the enemy general.Had no problems with the menue yet though.Just the kill general bug.

**xayoz306** · July 07, 2008, 03:19 AM

I'm suffering from the CTD when killing the enemy general as well, and it is usually when killing the general with an arrow. Only thing I can think of is to attack the general with something other than arrows, lol.

**Gorrrrrn** · July 07, 2008, 09:43 AM

Can people please say which mods they have in this thread?

(I completed both a late era and early era campaign without this problem revealing itself. Indeed without any CTDs - only ones I've had were when I messed around with files etc.)

Also which factions are involved in the battles?

At first glance it loks like a problem with the cut scene which usually accompanies the death of a general. (Is it General's Bodyguards or captains or both?)

Can you post your system log files (not the entire file but the last few lines)

as per shenryyr's instructions here:

Spoiler Alert, click show to read:

http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showp...72&postcount=1

**aduellist** · July 07, 2008, 01:10 PM

As I've posted elsewhere, the killing generals "bug" could be related to the cut scenes playing. As there's usually a lot going on at that point from a systems resource perspective, the sudden interruption of changing over to the cut scene and then trying to change back could be problematic. I've never had that particular CTD since disabling cut scenes.

In your mods\Stainless_Steel_6\Stainless_Steel_Kingdoms.cfg, under heading [game] add:

event_cutscenes = 0

BTW, I spend far too much time playing this mod. I will sometimes go 8 to 10 hours a gaming session on weekends and I hardly ever experience crashes (maybe once a week tops). I'd say this mod is anything but "extremely unstable".

**TWFanatic** · July 07, 2008, 02:27 PM

That should solve that problem--thanks everyone. However my biggest problem remains the CTD which occured in the middle of an exciting campaign:

http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?t=174894

I was contemplating shooting my computer.

**aduellist** · July 07, 2008, 04:52 PM

Originally Posted by TWFanatic

That should solve that problem--thanks everyone. However my biggest problem remains the CTD which occured in the middle of an exciting campaign:

http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?t=174894

I was contemplating shooting my computer.

Just replied to your thread there. Nothing definitive, but a couple of things to test.

I recommend bludgeoning. Shooting is over too fast and doesn't provide sufficient stress relief.

**roy34543** · July 07, 2008, 02:45 PM

Do you have 100% clean installs? i suggest reinstalling medieval 2 total and kingdoms if you can, and then totally remove all files related to it . Altenatively uninstall and then do a search for all remaining SS folders.

**~~Obliterate76~~** · July 07, 2008, 04:16 PM

I've had the same ctd's as others have reported, menu, custom battles to campaign mode...You know, you might want to carefully dissect the mod and it's issues before releasing it. To be honest I've downloaded it twice thought it was the most fun and challenging. Then I would crash once, again, again etc... Just slow down on the update so you won't have more people biting your head off...Cheers Mate!!