Unable to acces World Map-Complete System Shutdown

**Decimus Atreides** · March 30, 2009, 04:40 PM

Greetings all,

I have recently re-installed M2TW since a mod was corrupted, removed any traces, cleaned the registery, all of that. Then Re-installed, installed Kingdoms, Lands to Conquer and Thera, both mods for Kingdoms, and things go amiss

Other things that may have effect:
-Replaced old, low end video card with a Saphire HD 3850 512MB, installed software.
-Replaced power supply with a OCZ Stealth Stream 500W
-Replaced RAM memory with 2 x 1 GB Kingston PC3200

Every function of the game works, even custom battles, everything, untill I start a campaign. Once the game has loaded, the world map shows up, and after 4-8 seconds, the comp decides its quitting time, and the system reboots.

After finding some things in the Bios system menu about not restating the comp after a fatal error, I tried again (a hundred times for that matter), same happens, and instead of restarting, a blue screen pops up. It does not however say what is wrong, only a couple of suggestions about the monitor adapter, shadowing and caching memory in the BIOS, and an error code that the site of microsoft couldn't recognise. (I'll post it ater, forgot to write the thing down)

After trying some things myself (like downing the resolution and such) my inspiration run dry. I really hope someone will be able to help me out, not being able to play my favorite game is slowly freaking me out

**irishron** · March 31, 2009, 03:29 AM

What is your cpu? How old is your computer? I believe you are getting a hotspot someplace. When you added these new parts, did you blow out all the crud inside the case before installing? In case it's new ram and the game will run on one gig, you can take them out and try them in different slots one at a time to see if that makes a difference.

**Decimus Atreides** · March 31, 2009, 04:57 AM

Originally Posted by irishron

What is your cpu? How old is your computer? I believe you are getting a hotspot someplace. When you added these new parts, did you blow out all the crud inside the case before installing? In case it's new ram and the game will run on one gig, you can take them out and try them in different slots one at a time to see if that makes a difference.

CPU:AMD Athlon 3200+, 2.2Ghz, 400Mhz (4-5 years old)

About blowing out the crud, it wasn't extremely clean, there may have been some between parts eventually.

I tried the Ram-thing, the motherboed-bookled instructed me about which one was the right slot, but the problem continues.

I'll run the damn thing in a moment, and summarise both the report and the error code. In any case thanks for brain storming already

hope someone'll figure it out

The Windows error message (after the actual reboot)

Spoiler Alert, click show to read:

P.S. was thinking of the way I installed the game. It's been such a long time that I might've missed something:
Medieval 2 Total War-->Kingdoms Total war (which patched M2TW to 1.2 and 1.3) (Crusades and Teutonic campaigns only) -->mods

The Great Blue Screen:

Spoiler Alert, click show to read:

**irishron** · March 31, 2009, 09:02 AM

I just put your error code in Google an dcame up with no match but a couple of their ads are wanting to sell registry repair programs.

From what I have seen of code like that is to totally uninstall and reinstall the game. You have registry problems that can only be resolved that way.

**Decimus Atreides** · March 31, 2009, 09:14 AM

I tested everything I could, and decided its not probable that its the hardware thats giving the problems. It may be some map-file in M2TW thats corrupted for some reason. Will try to reinstall, I'll keep you updated

**Gigantus** · March 31, 2009, 12:57 PM

You might have to go the way irishron is suggesting: there is no way that the game is the cause of this failure. I think it is merely the trigger.
If something was wrong with a map graphics file, the world map would not show up (and I had tons of those with my maps). It might sound funny, but you should go into options\video and do an autodetect. After that lower all settings by one notch.
Can you monitor temperatures (cpu, hard drive etc)?

**Decimus Atreides** · March 31, 2009, 02:37 PM

You mean the options of the games video settings, right? And those temperatures are only monitored in the Bios, which I can't enter ingame?

**Gigantus** · March 31, 2009, 08:26 PM

There is software around that checks on those temperatures and even keeps a record. Haven't got a link or a name, but google is your friend there.

**Decimus Atreides** · April 01, 2009, 05:19 AM

Well, I'll be damned xD after replacing my RAM memory with the new ones I had already ordered, and reinstalling the whole game....suddenly everything works fine for me. I don't know what it was that was triggered, and frankly, I couldn't care less, but the good thing is that I can play the game again

thanks for all your support guys, your really helping people out here! +rep for both of ya.

**Gigantus** · April 01, 2009, 05:50 AM

One is glad to be of service

**Decimus Atreides** · April 01, 2009, 06:12 AM

Crap....spoke to soon, its back. I think maybe my CPU can't handle it.

**Gigantus** · April 01, 2009, 07:05 AM

This kind of sudden BSoD is mostly caused by heat. Cruise around and see if you can't pick up a free program somewhere.

**irishron** · April 01, 2009, 07:57 AM

www.guru3d.com has RivaTuner and a few more for monitoring heat and ohter processes.

**Decimus Atreides** · April 01, 2009, 04:08 PM

Just when I considered it was probably the heat, the system went down, without M2TW running. I apparently misinstalled some drivers, which caused conflicts. when that problem was overtaken, a new Blue Screen appeared when starting a campaign. The error code that appeared this time was because of a virus...some haxdoor something... and the removal of it contains a huge lits of register-editing, with a singe misstep resulting in more mayor problems. So...Winsows will have to be reinstalled, new-up to date drivers and such, and then we'll just try again.

**Gigantus** · April 01, 2009, 08:24 PM

The eternal joys of computing. Hope you can solve it by re-installing your system. Not something I like to do.

**Decimus Atreides** · April 02, 2009, 06:46 AM

Originally Posted by gigantus

The eternal joys of computing. Hope you can solve it by re-installing your system. Not something I like to do.

I know, setting me to do it is hard...although its getting even worse, since it drops out at random intervals. will start this afternoon with formatting the C:\ drive, hope it'll solve everything. in any case, thanks for the great feedback!

**irishron** · April 02, 2009, 08:39 AM

Originally Posted by Decimus Atreides

I know, setting me to do it is hard...although its getting even worse, since it drops out at random intervals. will start this afternoon with formatting the C:\ drive, hope it'll solve everything. in any case, thanks for the great feedback!

I found out a long time ago reformatting is the only way to get rid of some viruses. Wish you the best.