Timurs cause "unspecified error"... on purpose!

**HansBlix** · August 09, 2009, 10:22 AM

Hello everyone.

For a long time I was expanding the borders of my british empire – I’m in the 220th turn right now. Since I met the Timurs I got the legendary “unspecified error”-error. It happens randomly – I managed to avoid it by producing savegames like chocolate in a chocolate factory.

But since the Timurs came up with their siege elephants (elephants with a cannon!?!) it also crashes during battle. Unfortunately I cant avoid the battles because AI won’t let me win on autosolve. And I’m so close to Jerusalem… Suprisingly it works if I fight a custom battle against timurian siege elephants and 4000 men involved…It's a campaign issue only... I think AI wont just let me take the goddam holy city…

I’ve read through a lot of posts and I see that it’s a common problem. Since I have no patches & Mods or anything similar installed and my computer is pretty good (IntelCore2, Radeon 3580HD, 2 GB Ram, newest drivers, everything else works excellent) I’m running out of answers…

I understand that this is probably something which is not to be fixed, but anyways I’d be glad about every response, even if you tell me that you have the same problem and fought your way around it by not fighting the Timurs.

A problem shared is a problem halved.

cheers,

HansBlix

**irishron** · August 09, 2009, 11:05 AM

It is a known crash problem that was never fixed in vanilla. If it was fixed in any of the mods, I don't know.

Unless you know how to mod the animation files, the only workaround is to auto-resolve those battles and take your losses. In an auto rsolve battle, and want to, you can use the auto_win cheat.

**Gigantus** · August 09, 2009, 12:21 PM

Those bad, bad elephants!

For your next game, go into the campaign_script.txt file (world\maps\cmpaign\imprial_campaign folder) and delete all lines that contain:

Elephant Artillery

In case you have doubts, simply put a semi-colon in front of the line. That cancels the processing of that line.

**HansBlix** · August 11, 2009, 11:36 AM

Ye bad indeed!

Thank you guys for the answers. I do not really understand why the developer is not fixing such a problem... they produce an awesome addictive game and in it's final stage it's crashing?!? Why? I mean... why?!?

Thx again & hf

blix