Medieval Total War II Lock-Up

**Marbot** · June 28, 2009, 01:00 PM

Could someone please give me a list of known reasons why the Total War Series in general and Medieval Total War II in particular, locks up/freezes up whatever the current technical term is.

I would be interested to hear from people who have experienced this problem and or any threads dedicated to this subject.

Thanks, Marbot

**irishron** · June 29, 2009, 03:02 AM

Do you mean ctds (crash to desktop), bsod (blue screen of death), corrupted graphics to the point mouse overlays no longer work, or something else?

There are many reasons for any and all. Underpowered cpu, underpowered power supply, underpowered video card, not enough ram, overheating especially laptops, memory leaks never addressed much less fixed, random ctds from bad hardcode, ctds from mods not finshed when released, players trying to circumvent the copy protection. This list is incomplete but it does cover about 90% of them.

**Marbot** · June 29, 2009, 08:40 PM

Originally Posted by irishron

Do you mean ctds (crash to desktop), bsod (blue screen of death), corrupted graphics to the point mouse overlays no longer work, or something else?

There are many reasons for any and all. Underpowered cpu, underpowered power supply, underpowered video card, not enough ram, overheating especially laptops, memory leaks never addressed much less fixed, random ctds from bad hardcode, ctds from mods not finshed when released, players trying to circumvent the copy protection. This list is incomplete but it does cover about 90% of them.

Irishron,

Thank you for your response. I own TWRome, TWBarbarian, Medieval TW, Medieval II TW, I have never been able to play any of them for more then a day or two before they start to lock-up. That list plus Stalker I and Fallout III all lock-up/freeze-up/screen-freeze/complete-computer-freeze requiring shut down to restart. Lock/Freeze as in everything is stuck in place and all buttons are non-responsive. Which is different then crashing to desktop which I notice there is a thread on that subject. Too me these are different things.

I have done every common known fix and tried every conceivable combination of malware, anti-virus settings imaginable.

There is no known (to me) conceivable reason why my machine will not run these programs problem free.

Tweak UI, mouse update to 6.3 and one malware anti-virus sweep each individually, that is once apiece, momentarily fixed the problem and allowed me to play (whatever game it was I was playing at the time) trouble free for about 6 hours. But then once I turned off the machine, went to bed, then got up to start playing again the damn thing started locking up again.

There is no reason in the world why my AMD XP 2600+, 2.08GHz, with 250 GB of RAM driving an nvidia 7600 gs will not play these games.

My suspicion is that there is an unidentified hidden malware program that is pinging the cursor and causing the games to lock up but I am not smart enough to know whether that is possible or not.

Any further suggestions would be appreciated.

Marbot