My now unplayable game....the story so far

[carlitobrigante]

Wow this game is so buggy.....but also so unpredictably buggy....

My first campaign as uk go to about the half way stage, 1740's odd I cant remember exactly when it crashed. And this was no ordinary crash, it froze my pc completely which eventually restarted itself...

A PSU porblem perhaps? I run a Quad core 9450, bfg gtx 260, 4 gig ram, vista 64 bit. Assasins creed, far cry 2, fall out 3, crysis can all play maxed out at 1920 x 1200 without any problems so I know it isnt the power supply.

None of the saves will work more than a turn or two before same thing happens. Untill that point, apart from the hideous lag on the campaign map it was fine. Only crashs on the campaign map. Sometimes I would see huge grahpical artifcats on the screen overlaid on the map, huge pink triangles and the such!

After a couple of the patches, doing the workaround to increase the memory the games access, I tried it again. I got to 1760 i think it was. It was running like a peach, with much reduced lag on the campaign map. Then all of a sudden I would get crashes when completing, and exiting a land or naval battle. Just out of the blue, after never happening before in over 200 turns, and endless battles of all shapes and sizes.

I managed to stop the crashes by going into sound options and turning off the sound effects tab just before exiting a battle.

I played on. Having great fun dominating the world as the Brits. I made alliances that stood for centuries with the Ottomans and the Marathas. I adopted Savoy, made him my pet project / vassal along with a couple of minor central european nations, and proceeded to carve up France together after I gave him so provinces to help build his strength.

I was having a ball. Then the same bug re-appeared and my pc crashed. No matter what type of new campaign, or save game I will load, it will now lock my pc and crash, within 1-3 turns. Regardless of my activity during those turns. The lockups would be completely random, i.e not always at end of turns, not when clicking on a ship etc.

I gave up on the campaign till a later patch / fix was hopefully released. I consoled myself with the custom battle game modes. I again was having great fun.

Now after a week or so of no problems. I now get the lockups during land battles.

I am truly a frustrated man at present. The game I wanted to love the most, the game i thought was going to blow me away and restore my faith in PC gaming, turns out to be the buggiest game ive yet to play in 20 years of gaming.

I pray CA are listening to the folks like me who dont want to ruin your company / take you to court / hurl abuse at you. The ones who love the games you make, but at the moment are peed off big style due to money that currently seems to have been tossed away. To make matters worse, it is throwing money away at a time we most of us need to be frugal more than ever. The main reason I spent the money I did on this expensive pc was so I knew I could handle with ease all of CA's upcoming total war games. I now find that it might actually because im using up to date hardware that Im having these problems.



To any CA employees who might see this. Please fix it. Please fix it soon. Please fix it so I can go back to loving your work, and not feeling like Ive been happy slapped by it instead.
Your hopefully,
Carlito

(would be interested in any similar expieriances? Im sure there are many)