CTD on battle begin

**Dazzy** · April 30, 2009, 02:20 PM

Sorry if this is answered somewhere else, but I can't see it.

Whenever I try to begin either a custom battle, a siege, or a field battle, ithe loading bar fills fully and then crashes. The normal medieval 2 game doesn't do this, so I don't think it's hardware problems. :\

I've tried the game both packed and unpacked, and that doesn't seem to help.

**Soul Firez** · April 30, 2009, 02:29 PM

silly question but if you unpacked game did you remove the descr_geogaraphy files

**Dazzy** · April 30, 2009, 02:32 PM

It's currently packed (by reinstalling medieval/kingdoms, then third age), so I assume not. :p

Hmm, just ran a search and it can't seem to find descr_geography though, unless my search settings are weird.

**Soul Firez** · April 30, 2009, 02:35 PM

even reinstalling doesnt fix unless you scrub all files of pc not just uninstall learnt that the hard way unpack the game again and delete descr_geography_new txt and db versions as these when unpacked cause it to ctd on finishing load of battle you using vista or xp

**Dazzy** · April 30, 2009, 02:42 PM

I'm using vista. Yeah, shoot me now. :p

It's unpacked. I can't see the descr_geography_new file in the sega folder.

**Soul Firez** · April 30, 2009, 02:51 PM

lol same problem i had and i almost shot myself

when its unpacked again the only way i could find those files and it was a pain was to do a search then advanced search for descr_geography_new ticking box saying to look in program files and un indexed areas as i could not find it at all in the game files something about the wat vista unpacks

it but you will end with a search that has the 2 files you need to kill

well it worked for me

thats search everywhere not just sega files dont ask me why but it worked for me

**Dazzy** · April 30, 2009, 02:56 PM

I've done that, and it only brings up 2 files that are for rome total war.. I'm confused.

BTW, thanks for helping.

**Soul Firez** · April 30, 2009, 03:00 PM

the 2 files from rome total war are just descr_geography not descr_geography_new i found them myself did you do search for that file again i had to search my whole pc for the bloody things

**Dazzy** · April 30, 2009, 03:01 PM

That's what I did, I searched everywhere.

And I only searched for "geography", incase the file had been misnamed or whatever.

I'm stumped. :\

EDIT: I've just completed a research using the same stuff accidently, and it's popped up and found them.. weird. Now that they've been found and deleted, what shall i do?

**Soul Firez** · April 30, 2009, 03:05 PM

you did a search thenwhen that fails to find it you did an advanced search ticking the box to search unindexed and programe files looking for specificly descr_geography_new?? should work i only did it an hour or 2 agon myself

now play it should work just load a camp game and rush to a battle by doing hotseat rush to close factions and see if it loads battle i had np from there

**Sanderdanio** · April 30, 2009, 03:24 PM

Originally Posted by Dazzy

That's what I did, I searched everywhere.

And I only searched for "geography", incase the file had been misnamed or whatever.

I'm stumped. :\

EDIT: I've just completed a research using the same stuff accidently, and it's popped up and found them.. weird. Now that they've been found and deleted, what shall i do?

Could you please specify what you typed exactly? Because i'm having the exact same problem as you guys were having

**Col Poutting** · April 30, 2009, 04:35 PM

Whats the exact name of both files please? and where are they exactly. i have the same problem....

**Lucivatar** · April 30, 2009, 04:57 PM

Actually if someone,who knows the solution,could write down the steps needed we would be really,really grateful

**GTFO. Jamie** · April 30, 2009, 05:22 PM

anybody have a solution for this?

i have searched everywhere for descr_geography_new, even with 'included non indexed' option, and it does not come up

**Dazzy** · April 30, 2009, 03:11 PM

It works.

Custom battles anyway, haven't checked the rest. Thanks for your help! +imaginary rep, can't do it until 50 posts. :p

If anybody sees this thread and has +50 posts, rep him for me please?

**King Kong** · May 01, 2009, 06:22 AM

hmmm... that's all pretty weird. I have currently no real idea what the problem could be...

Could you please post your system.log file (in m2/logs) right after the crash happened?

You also may try to delete the "battle.sd", "shared.sd" and "strategy.sd" files from "Third_Age/data/ui" & from "Medieval II Total War/data/ui". Maybe this could help...

**Col Poutting** · May 01, 2009, 09:44 AM

here's my log:

20:38:43.160 [system.rpt] [always] CPU: SSE2
20:38:43.175 [system.rpt] [always] ==== system log start, build date: Feb 25 2008 version development ===
20:38:43.175 [system.io] [always] mounted pack packs/data_0.pack
20:38:43.175 [system.io] [always] mounted pack packs/data_1.pack
20:38:43.175 [system.io] [always] mounted pack packs/data_2.pack
20:38:43.175 [system.io] [always] mounted pack packs/data_3.pack
20:38:43.175 [system.io] [always] mounted pack packs/data_4.pack
20:38:43.175 [system.io] [always] mounted pack packs/localized.pack
20:57:30.134 [system.rpt] [error] Medieval 2: Total War encountered an unspecified error and will now exit.

Edit: i deleted the files you mentioned, but it didnt help. Still crashes at the end or during the battles.

**Sanderdanio** · May 01, 2009, 11:17 AM

Originally Posted by Col Poutting

here's my log:

20:38:43.160 [system.rpt] [always] CPU: SSE2
20:38:43.175 [system.rpt] [always] ==== system log start, build date: Feb 25 2008 version development ===
20:38:43.175 [system.io] [always] mounted pack packs/data_0.pack
20:38:43.175 [system.io] [always] mounted pack packs/data_1.pack
20:38:43.175 [system.io] [always] mounted pack packs/data_2.pack
20:38:43.175 [system.io] [always] mounted pack packs/data_3.pack
20:38:43.175 [system.io] [always] mounted pack packs/data_4.pack
20:38:43.175 [system.io] [always] mounted pack packs/localized.pack
20:57:30.134 [system.rpt] [error] Medieval 2: Total War encountered an unspecified error and will now exit.

Edit: i deleted the files you mentioned, but it didnt help. Still crashes at the end or during the battles.

Exactly the same log. Also deleted, but still can´t play a siege

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**GTFO. Jamie** · May 02, 2009, 07:11 AM

anybody had luck in fixing this?

I have not unpacked the files, i do however have some of the sub mods running, like the nerfed garrison script and the 'stronger alliances' sub mod.

I removed TATW completely and reinstalled, and battles worked for a few turns, but i tried to start a battle outside edoras as isengard and it CTD'd to desktop instantly...

Am reinstalling kingdoms and everything again at the moment