Loading Battle CTD

**BloodyDove5718** · September 14, 2009, 08:05 PM

Ok, so i have the basic Rome total war game, and i've installed it successfully on my computer and had been playing it for about 2 weeks completely fine until just a couple days ago. I had started a new short campaign as the Thrace, and was loading a battle to take a new settlement when the game crashed to the desktop with no error message or anything.

Things i have done to try to fix or get around the problem...
started a new campaign and tried again-failed
rebooted computer, start a new campaign- failed
looked at game preferences, put on lowest preferences- failed
reinstalled the game- failed
ran the directx diagnostics tool- came up with no errors what so ever

I then looked on multiple forums for people with similar situations, and saw a few people talking about missing files such as the mss32.dll, which i have, and missing unit files, which i have too. I've ran out of ideas and getting kinda frustrated. I can do everything in the game, but run battles.. i have to auto resolve, which i hate doing

**CobraStallone** · September 15, 2009, 12:06 AM

Welcome to the forums, no idea how to help you really. I would re-install the game and download the patches.

**BloodyDove5718** · September 15, 2009, 06:35 AM

Tried that too, didnt work

**Chicken** · September 15, 2009, 10:35 AM

try and reinstall everything in a new directory, and delete the old creative assemble folder from program files, and then paste the new installation into "program files".

**BloodyDove5718** · September 15, 2009, 01:20 PM

Reinstalled it the way you said Coolguyz, and while reinstalling again i got a message at the end of the process saying "DLL Failed to load!", but other than that it downloaded fully. Just tried to do a battle, still didnt work