Halfway through loading Bar CTD?

[Jimmy H (UK)]

Hi, Ive been doing a bit of experimenting with the custom battles adding different units and the like which is all working fine. Although for some reason now the campaign map won't load anymore despite the fact that im pretty sure I haven't altered any files which actually effect it and everything seems to be in order but i could be wrong.

The loading bar reaches halfway or there and abouts every time before a big ctd with no error message, I was wandering if anyone knows roughly the order in which the game loads the files as some sort of an indication as to what might actually be causing this? The files Ive altered or made additions to are:-

export_descr_unit
descr_models_battle
descr_mounts
descr_banners
descr_characters
descr_sm_factions
export_units.txt

Any ideas. Cheers.

[Aradan]

export_descr_unit

Maybe an army now has a unit that no longer belongs to it?

descr_models_battle

Unlikely.

descr_mounts

Nope.

descr_banners

Badly defined model?

descr_characters

Same as above.

descr_sm_factions

What did you change here?

export_units.txt

Nah.

[Jimmy H (UK)]

In Sm_factions I did change the culture, the symbol and loading symbol and the colours, plus made it availiable in custom battles. But I did change the culture back to its default, thought it was most likely to be the cause but it didnt solve it.

Im pretty sure the models are all in order I can't find any problems, I think you normally get an error message for something like that but im not sure.

cheers mate.

[Ramashan]

If you changed the culture make sure that there's no conflict with the units and buildings you have in the settlements.

[Kylan271]

DMB yes,well I have probs same when incorrect cas file is done,from what i see(and no error mesage!). Screen loads part way through then gets stuck in custom battles. I have to turn off the computer as wont reload to screen upon 'esc'. Stress...grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.

If you have a unit with either a duplicate 'soldier' reference in EDU or faction not matching when you add unit to roster,you can get a game crash upon battle loading with no error message. Exact specifics I can't say,but there is a difference in type of CTDs. I feel the above is CAS file mismatch/typo.