Problem With Naval Battles

[DannyCrane]

Every time I fight a naval battle automatically, I will have no problems. The game will run just fine. When I fight it, I will play the round just fine. At the end of the round, it will return me to the campaign screen and show me the stats for the battle. I will then click the check mark to close the results page, and the game will crash. Am I doing something wrong. I've fought the same battle about 4 times, changing my forces or changing the time that I fight or who I fight but nothing helps.

[RyuNoKami]

i have the same problem. And i didn't got any problems before the latest patch with the exception of the late-game SoL units CTDing the game.

[Mugwump]

No. It appears to be a new bug introduced in the Mar 25 patch. I suffer from it as well. CA sent me a beta .dll to try out after I reported the problem on the yuku forums. So far, teh beta seems to help a lot, but it's not 100% stable. I still get crashes about 1/3rd of the time and I'm having some issues with sound effects playing in sequence rather than all at once so they aren't synching up with graphics on screen. If a naval battle ends suddenly (ie last ship's morale breaks) and the sounds aren't finished playing, the game crashes when I return to the strategic map.

[Owen The Wise]

Same problem here :/ hope it gets a fix soon

[husserlTW]

I had the same problem after today's small update (26/3). I fixed that by disabling the sfx in the game menu. Hope to help you. CA fixes one bug and the sametime creates others. From the other hand there is much improvement on the CTD related to the fleets, except the very last technology levels where fleets get the last increased moving bonus.

[husserlTW]

...also the music in campaign map comes and goes. It is supposed that today's patch should fix sound issues!

[Owen The Wise]

Sfx trick works!!!!!!

woohoO!!!!!!!!!!

I'm going to experiment tomorrow with when to turn it off

ie before battle, right before end or what

Ill post my results

[husserlTW]

Another possible solution without disabling sfx is to change a couple of things in steam's settings. Instructions from up_and_adam here.