crash in battle

[Swagger]

howdy


no this is not another case related to the non-deletion of geography_new's files


so, my case is this:

the battle loads fine, i change the placement of the units before the battle starts everything fine

but as soon as i press ''Start Battle'' a CTD takes place


i've never seen this CTD's, any help?

[GrnEyedDvl]

Error log?

[Swagger]

obviously there's nothing relevant

[uanime5]

Have you tried to change a Kingdoms mod to a non-Kingdoms mod or vice versa? If you may have the wrong 'descr_cursor_actions_battle_classic.txt' (I think this is the file). Basically in Kingdoms you can control multiple armies but in the original version you can't so if you have the wrong file M2TW will crash.

[Swagger]

well this is my mod (l'Outremer)


and i'm getting sereral problems that i didn't had a few hours ago

another major problem is that i have a crash after the video, but it's completly random

sometimes i load the game i get a CTD, or times it works

[Nakharar]

what did you add that your getting this random error(in the few hours did you touch it)

[Swagger]

i changed my loading_screens (make some changes in the borders), i added xeryx's & lusted AI (a mix), lusted's for campaign and xery's for battles


and that's basicly it

[Augustus Lucifer]

So then remove all the changes and see if it's fixed. That is the first step in determining what the problem is. Then add them back since those files are not dependent on each other, running the game each time. It probably has to do with the Battle AI file not having integrity with other files. Some things in the AI are defined elsewhere(at least in the campaign for certain, which defines AI types that are used in the descr_strat among other things). The AI files aren't meant to just be inserted without knowing what it is they are doing.

[konny]

i changed my loading_screens (make some changes in the borders), i added xeryx's & lusted AI (a mix), lusted's for campaign and xery's for battles

This one is the culprit for the battle CTD.

I had the same problem when changing the ai-formations file from a mod to the vanilla one. It is probably the factions refering to, or something like that. I didn't had the time to trace this bug and changed back to the before file.

[Taiji]

Out of the things listed it does seem the only one likely to affect battles and not leave an error message but I don't see why it should. I've tried transplating XBAI into DLV in the past and had no CTD problems.

Also I'd agree with Augustus Lucifer, one step at a time should help you solve it. When you know which file is causing it, try importing sections of the file, one after the other, to narrow down the problem further.

[Swagger]

i tried everything and still doesn't work

the crash after pressing ''Start Battle'' is fixed, it was a problem with the advisor


but the random ctd is not


everytime the game goes to the loading_screen (either after the intro video, starting a battle, or the campaign map) sometimes it crashes, sometimes not (without changing anything meanwhile)

[Nakharar]

try this, do the same thing (same campaign or same custom battle everytime) and see if it CTD's

[Swagger]

what?

[Nakharar]

does it crash on loading screen for campaign or custom battle>?

[Swagger]

as i said, any time it goes to a loading screen (after the intro video, going for a custom battle, or going to the campaign map)


there's like 50-50% chance of crash, sometimes it works, sometimes it crashes


100% random

[Gigantus]

Have you thought of a possible heat problem? Now might be a good time to open the lid on your machine and blow out the dust.

[Swagger]

crash is a CTD, not cpu crash


and i use a laptop

[uanime5]

I once had a problem like this, it turned out that it was caused by a quote I'd numbered wrong, so everytime the mod tried to load this quote it couldn't find it and crashed. You need the check the following files.

data/descr_transition_screen.txt
data/text/quotes.txt

The 'descr_transition_screen' file states how many quotes you have and which quote has which author. Each quote and author must appear in the 'quotes.txt' or the mod will crash because it cannot find the quote. Check that all the quotes in the 'descr_transition_screen' appear in the 'quotes.txt'and that there are no spelling errors.

[Swagger]

exactly, i also modded the quotes


i'm currently reinstalling my whole med2tw.. i tought this could help, but hopefuly it will worj

[Eothese]

Re-installing the basic game wont fix problems in a mod...