unexplained game crash

[reaper348]

Hello, I seem to be having a problem with RTW vanilla where, during my campaign, the game crashes and closes. I had this problem twice during the Prologue but I just ignored it and moved on, but now it happened whenever I try and load my Julii campaign. I really don't want to just reinstall and lose my progress if this can be worked around or solved, but I have reinstalled the game before, and I had the same problem but only during the prologue. Any suggestions would be very helpful. When the game crashes it does so instantly and I do not get any kind of error message. And I'm not using any mods.

[HanatielHawk]

Hello, I seem to be having a problem with RTW vanilla where, during my campaign, the game crashes and closes. I had this problem twice during the Prologue but I just ignored it and moved on, but now it happened whenever I try and load my Julii campaign. I really don't want to just reinstall and lose my progress if this can be worked around or solved, but I have reinstalled the game before, and I had the same problem but only during the prologue. Any suggestions would be very helpful. When the game crashes it does so instantly and I do not get any kind of error message. And I'm not using any mods.

My friend has this problem also, and i had it too for some reason. There are several things you can do:
- If its a mod problem select the shortcut on your desktop, and add to the path (behind the ") this:-show_err this would show the error if you get a CTD (crash to desktop). If not I dunno whats the problem, but there's always option 2:
2- Make a back-up of the important modded files (normally such as descr_strat.txt, preferences, saved games, pics, and battle replays etc.) And uninstall the game. Delete the The Creative Assembly or Activision map in your Program Files. When you've done this reïnstall the game again. If the problem is unsolved i don't know what the problem is, ask at the Technical Help sub-forum for more help

[irishron]

What version do you have? Is it the old 3-cd set, Gold, Eras, download?

Have you patched it?

[Brusilov]

Make sure that you have the -show_err switch on the shortcut properties - this is one way to get an error message if it's trapped by the program (missing files etc).

Have a look through this thread to explain how to do that: http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?t=62217

The other thing to do is to switch off autosave and don't do quicksaves. Autosave is set in your 'preferences.txt' file - just change it from TRUE to FALSE. Quicksaves are done using a control key (which can be changed in the options).