Medieval II/Kingdoms 'unspecified error'

[BarcaM10]

Dear all,

It seems that I am not the only one who has suffered with this problem of experiencing CTD with the error message; "Medieval II Total War has encountered an unspecified error and will now exit"

I am playing the Britannia campaign and I have had no problems whatsoever until I reach the Turn 150 mark, and now it's a battle to get through a turn w/out CTD. I think I have reached Turn 154 but I can go no further - it automatically crashes each time I 'End Turn'.

However, I am fairly sure that I installed all the components in the correct order. I patched to 1.2, then to 1.3 and unpacked the files from the disc.

I cannot locate the 'descr_geography' files - they are not visible or simply not there (I have manually checked through every subfolder in 'Data' and also run a search through Windows). I have just installed the latest drivers for my graphics card (an 8600M GS) but this has not solved the problem.

I am running a new laptop on Vista32, with 2GB ram, 256MB GeForce 8600M GS card, and Medieval II on 1.3. I would appreciate any help because I only bought Medieval II and Kingdoms last week, and Brittania is the first campaign I am playing and I am nervous about starting other campaigns if I'll be unable to finish them!

Sry but I am a bit of a n00b!

[irishron]

The geography files will be hidden in C:\*\Virtual Store\Sega folder. Make sure you unhide all hidden and system files so they'll show up.

[BarcaM10]

Hi thanks for your response. I have never seen a folder called Virtual Store and I can't find one on my C Drive. I am also pretty sure that no files are hidden in the SEGA folder...

[irishron]

Vista there is. Read the sticky thread at the top of this page titled Total War and Vista.

[BarcaM10]

Okay thanks I managed to locate the AppData folder and found the Virtual Store folder with another SEGA file in it. I still don't see any descr_geography files in the Medieval II files though and nothing should be hidden.. :hmmm:

[Gigantus]

If it only started crashing after 150 turns then it shouldn't be the good old geography files. Did you change something in the british_isles folder?
There was a problem with the script (fix in the download section, same for teutonic campaign) but that shouldn't cause CTD.

[BarcaM10]

Maybe the save files have been corrupted somehow?

[irishron]

That is always a high probability. If you have a save from turn 140 or so, try it from there and see if it happens, again.