CTD when conquering army tries to enter city

**aaron3579** · March 20, 2009, 04:58 PM

Hello,

I would like to know if anyone has had this problem, and if so, is there a work around:

I am playing as GB and it is around 1755. I attacked the city of Genoa, Liguria and won the assault on turn one of the siege (because the game does not grant victory after I starve them out for some reason). After the battle, it goes back to the campaign map and displays battle statistics. I click the check mark to close this window, after which my army begins to move into the conquered city. This is followed immediately by CTD.

I reloaded and won the battle a second time but had the same result.

The third time, I hit auto resolve and lost.

The fourth time, I hit auto resolve and lost.

The fifth time I brought in lots more troops, and hit auto resolve and won, but again my army was unable to enter the city without CTD (I feel like the guy in Holy Grail talking about how many of his castles burned down and sank into the swamp).

I said, ok, I will just leave them under siege for a few turns and maybe in a few turns, it will work itself out. Wrong; doesn't work.

So I decided to keep playing my campaign and just maybe leave that city alone. But now the same thing happens when I try to take *any* other region capital.

Anyway, this campaign is pretty much hosed since there isn't much point to playing a war game where you can't conquer any enemies.

Like I said, I was hoping that someone here had discovered some sort of work around. Yes, I have used the search feature, and have found a couple other threads where the same issue comes up, but I haven't really seen it addressed at any length.

I have also read the sticky that tells me to install a certain series of nvidia drivers, but I am running an Alienware laptop with mobile nvidia cards in SLI, and I'm just not sure what that would do to my system... and anyway this just doesn't feel like a video card issue.

Any help would be greatly appreciated, and either way, thanks for reading.

Danke.

**aaron3579** · March 21, 2009, 04:51 PM

[bump]

Just casting back out; hoping to get a nibble.

**Slapa** · March 22, 2009, 01:50 AM

hi, the same thing has been happening to me in my GB campaign but in reverse for me, everytime one of the native american armies takes ruperts landing in canada i get a ctd

**redshift.** · March 22, 2009, 05:18 AM

I feel your pain. Year 1770 for me playing as the Dutch. Took the island of Corsica after a battle at Bastia and the moment my troops enter the city the game crashed. Nothing resolves it so far. What's more...now I can't even move troops OUT of a city I control without a crash. Games been fine up till now. 10 regions away from victory in the grand campaign and now this. Very disappointing.

**cyberVIP** · March 22, 2009, 06:02 AM

Hi.
Welcome to the club, guys

Same

with my Dutch prestige campaign, h/h, max units, 1723.
I have CTD every time I enter any conquered city. So nice Bogota, never been there

. In result my campaign is broken.

Seems to be common bug for colonial powers.

**Diehard_si** · March 22, 2009, 07:41 AM

Same here, i've just shelved the game until they decide to finish it.

**marceror** · March 22, 2009, 12:52 PM

Grrr.... it looks like my GB campaign is hoses as well. I need Cherokee territory to complete a mission, but game crashes to desktop everytime I win the battle (or request peace in the diplmacy interface). Just as my empire was really starting to take off too.

**aaron3579** · March 22, 2009, 05:22 PM

Thanks for the replies, y'all. You've helped more than you realize; at least now I know this is a common issue, and is therefore likely to be addressed with a patch. [crossed fingers]

**redshift.** · March 22, 2009, 08:32 PM

It better be addressed in a patch. Or I shall...I shall be very angry.

**aaron3579** · March 25, 2009, 01:29 PM

Well, I just loaded the game for the fist time since the patch, and no dice. I'm *still* getting the same CTD when my army starts to enter a conquered city.

Better luck next patch I guess.

**marceror** · March 25, 2009, 01:43 PM

Was the patch released? Cool, I'll have to check that out. It could be that the patch doesn't repair the corruption, but hopefully, prevents it from happening in future games. Or alternatively, these kinds of bugs may not have been addressed... if it's out, I'm off to check out the release notes.

**MagnumForce** · March 25, 2009, 04:07 PM

I have started 3 different GCs: British, Dutch, and Prussian. In all three cases the game crashes after I either win a battle for a province or I declare war on one too many nations, or I selected a certain navy that caused CTD. After today's March 25 patch, I tried to resume my Dutch GC, but when I beat Genoa in a provincial capital battle, I got the crash again. I wonder if anyone has made it through an entire Grand Campaign, that recruited 300+ units, without crashing after a certain amount of turns.

**aaron3579** · March 25, 2009, 06:06 PM

Not only did the patch not fix my game, but now I can't play the GC *at all.* Every time I win any battle, I get CTD. I even started a completely new game, and cleaned out the save-game folder to boot (as per idea posited above).

I guess it's back to good ole' Baldur's Gate. Walmart return policy FTW!

**marceror** · March 25, 2009, 07:41 PM

aaron3579

While we'll probably never have great AI in this game, I have faith in CA that they'll at least deal with the most glaring stability bugs, like many of us in this thread are experiencing. Obviously, if you're ready to give up and return it that's your call. And you certainly could do far worse with your fallback game than Baldur's Gate. One of my all time favs!

**Slapa** · March 25, 2009, 09:07 PM

the new patch is as terrible as this game i still have the same issue when a native american army takes one of my cities in my GB campaign, absolutely disgusted

**MagnumForce** · March 25, 2009, 09:24 PM

*****Update*******

Now my Dutch GC has been able to continue past the point where it used to crash. After I quit ETW I noticed that a Java update was available(I wonder if ETW uses Java?)so I updated Java. I switched my nvidia video card drivers from 185 Beta to 181.22 which of course required a reboot. So i'm thinking that either the new drivers played a role in the new stability, the java update was what was needed with ETW's new patch, or most likely, you need to reboot windows for the patch to take full effect because of the savegame files or something. So did everyone try rebooting windows after patching, then loading up a save game that used to CTD and seeing if you make it past the old CTD point? One of the three things I did made the GC not CTD anymore.

**redshift.** · March 26, 2009, 08:57 AM

No change. Update didn't do a thing for me. Driver updates have likewise helped in no way. I blame Steam. Eff them and trying to butt into Total War games. Stick to Half-Life type things which is what you are good at.