Crash upon entering battle

[Fulcrum123]

Hello,

I am having a problem where whenever I enter a battle, either on campaign map, quick battle etc., MTW II crashes to desktop.

This seems to be a somewhat common problem, so I took some of the steps I saw in previous threads. I had CAE installed, and I believe the crashing started after I removed that. I had just bought kingdoms and I thought maybe installing that would fix the crash. It didn't. Anyhow, I deleted my install, deleted the files under appdata (I have vista), I deleted the sega registry keys, emptied those files from recycle bin, and reinstalled MTW II clean (but not kingdoms).

I am still getting this same crash. I have used MTW II in the past just fine, the only thing I can really link to the crashes is removing CAE. I am not sure if I am missing something in my uninstall, when I reinstalled it auto set the program to admin rights, which seems odd, I remember having to do that manually I think.

Here is my error log.
09:55:19.109 [system.rpt] [always] CPU: SSE2
09:55:19.113 [system.rpt] [always] ==== system log start, build date: Oct 5 2006 version bld-medieval2-final-52 (29455) ===
09:55:19.118 [system.io] [always] mounted pack packs/data_0.pack
09:55:19.119 [system.io] [always] mounted pack packs/data_1.pack
09:55:19.120 [system.io] [always] mounted pack packs/data_2.pack
09:55:19.122 [system.io] [always] mounted pack packs/data_3.pack
09:55:19.123 [system.io] [always] mounted pack packs/data_4.pack
09:55:19.123 [system.io] [always] mounted pack packs/localized.pack
09:56:01.443 [system.rpt] [error] Medieval 2: Total War encountered an unspecified error and will now exit.

I appreciate any assistance.

Thanks,
Fulcrum123

[irishron]

The date on your syslog says you haven't applied any patches, yet. To be honest, you go back to the bug listof the original release and you'll find many battle ctds tied to unit and wall bugs. 1.2 fixed some for Medieval2. CAE and other mods intruduced more bugs as they added units.

Kingdoms with the Kingdoms Update patch has the least problems. The retrofit mod is supposed to have fixed more.

If you have a campaign going sometimes the only option is to auto-resolve a battle and go on.

[Fulcrum123]

Thanks for the response. I reinstalled up through kingdoms and 1.5 patch. Same problem. It crashes on EVERY battle. I am wondering if there is some artifact related to CAE mod possibly somewhere that I am not thinking of.

Here is the new log, not really changed much.
11:51:38.393 [system.rpt] [always] CPU: SSE2
11:51:38.394 [system.rpt] [always] ==== system log start, build date: Feb 25 2008 version development ===
11:51:38.399 [system.io] [always] mounted pack packs/data_0.pack
11:51:38.400 [system.io] [always] mounted pack packs/data_1.pack
11:51:38.401 [system.io] [always] mounted pack packs/data_2.pack
11:51:38.403 [system.io] [always] mounted pack packs/data_3.pack
11:51:38.404 [system.io] [always] mounted pack packs/data_4.pack
11:51:38.404 [system.io] [always] mounted pack packs/localized.pack
11:51:38.531 [system.io] [always] mounted pack mods/british_isles/packs/data.pack
11:51:38.531 [system.io] [always] mounted pack mods/british_isles/packs/localized.pack
11:52:22.760 [system.rpt] [error] Medieval 2: Total War encountered an unspecified error and will now exit.

Thanks

[irishron]

What you have done, there is no artifect of CAE left. It's just the game getting you, now.

Curiosity, what are your computer specs?

[Fulcrum123]

Its an HP w/ 32 Bit Windows vista SP 1
Athlon X2 4600
4 GB ram
Radeon X1950 Pro

The odd thing is that it used to run MTW II fine. It still lets me do all the campaign map stuff, just not battles. I can't figure out what has changed. I had stopped playing for a bit, and during that time I added 2 GB of ram. Thats the only big change I can think of.

Thanks

[BigZed]

I have this problem also though Im only patched up to 1.30 with no mods.

The ONE thing that might be related to these crashes is that I unpacked the files. Im not 100% sure but I believe from that moment on Ive had problems crashing.

Anyone else have a similar problem?

Also does anyone know what files I can delete from the Data folder that were unpacked? (im an idiot and didnt back up files )

Thanks for the help

system spec: Vista 64
amd X2 6000
4GB ram
EVGA 260

[irishron]

Yours is about like mine.

Here are a few things that might help. Use only 3gigs of ram. That 4th gig and 32 bit systems cause problems.
If you only have XP SP1, you're missing out on updates. XP is up to SP3. It also wouldn't hurt to get .Net framework 3.5 SP1. Directx 9 drivers are up to november, 2008 release. The last two you'll have to do manually.
Don't forget to update your ATI drivers.