CTD after battle

[Umbro]

Ave

I have a periodic problem in SPQR 7.0. The game cause CTD after end of battle in 215BC winter(turn 2.) every time, when I win against Hannibal.

I didn't play the game since two years and I installed according to LT's instructions(SPQR 7.0 readme) in yesterday.

System: AMD 64 X2 Dual Core 4600+ 2400 Mhz, RAM 2.0 GB, Free space on HDD(D partition): 10 GB, Nvidia GeForce 8600 GT, directX 10.0
OS: Windows Vista
Game version: 1.5 (only RTW with patches)
Installation folder: D:\Activision\Rome Total War
Installed add-ons: SPQR_7.0, new unit addon for SPQR, new terrain map. ( I didn't install any other addons before these)
Desktop resolution: 1920x1080x32
"Battle Map" and "Strategy Map" Resolutions to: 1920x1080x32

Antialaising: High Anti-Alaising
Terrain Detail: High
Building Detail: High
Grass Detail: High
Unit Scale: Huge
Unit Detail: High
Effects Detail: High
Vegetation Detail: High

Widescreen and other details are checked, fullscreen mode

Installation was succesfully at third time, so I had three reinstall , but every reinstall was fully clear and I deleted all remained components and folder (first I didn't patch 1.0-1.5 so it cause instant CTD with SPQR 7.0, second I didn't play/false the prologue so it cause that I couldn't start the campign in SPQR 7.0, but in third reinstall everything was fine till this problem)

please help me, SPQR is a great modification of RTW.

excuse me, if this problem was, but I didn't find

[SirGejor]

AVE!!

Hello dude. Welcome to SPQR!

Apparently you have a good hardware to run the game. You must first have a clean installation of RTW, with the installation of patch 1.3 and 1.5. I suggest reading some topics in this forum. I'm sending you one of Hesus that will help you a lot.

http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?t=219124

[Umbro]

Thanx SirGejor

I checked Hesus topic and read some other, but I didn't find exact solution for my problem.

[Ejergard]

Try playing in windowed mode, it usually fixes alot of weird crashes.

[Umbro]

Thanx Ejergard. I will try this method and I will report about result.

[Umbro]

Now I'm playing in windowed mode since many turns and the problem didn't come again.
I think I had other problem too. I forgot turn on the garrison script after load game, so I don't know which was the main problem, but now it works. Thanx your advices.

[czePowerslave]

You MUST activate the script everytime you load a game. And above all, do not save games prior to battles in enemy turns, it really bugs the script all over and it goes wacko.

[Umbro]

Ok I keep in mind

[Ejergard]

If you have several battles during an enemy turn you might be left with no choice but to save. Worst thing I know is to restart an end turn with a bunch of battles I already fought. So you can save, but make a new save file incase it goes corrupt. So far after these years I haven't had a single corrupted mid turn save fail on me, but as cze say, it can happen, and if you saved over your main savefile, you might ruin your entire campaign. Keep it safe

[KingBraga]

Very good post

[Umbro]

You have right, Ejergard. We need to make a lot of save. My method is I make a save game begining turn and end turn like this: Rome_bsum215BC or Rome_ewin215BC., and certainly before every bigger battle for instance: Quintus_Hannibal215BC, so my save game folder is very large middle of the campaign.
This method is safe, and you can make a detailed documentation your own empire.

[czePowerslave]

ill make a new post regarding the script useage and my experience with save games for it rather so people can see.

[Umbro]

good idea

[vodangvn1]

hey guys, can you show me how to play Rome TW in winmode ? thanks a lot
ooppps, sorry, I didn't see #2