[solved] CTD before battles

[redhammer]

May I start with thanking the RSII team on a brilliant strat map.

Unfortunately, I cannot thank anyone for battles because whenever I try to play a battle, the program CTDs. When I try to play a battle the screen loads and I can see the battle map. However, when I zoom in on any unit, the game CTDs without so much as an error message. This is not a graphics issue because the same happens on the lowest possible graphics settings with one small unit and my computer isn't THAT bad.

I am playing the non-steam version with BI.exe, though the bug occurs with the RTW.exe as well

I have tried the missing animation fix as well as several re-installations and nothing works

In short:

[Brusilov]

What is the 'missing animation' fix? I'm not aware of such a thing.

Does this happen with 'vanilla' RTW and RTW BI?

[redhammer]

The missing animation fix is the one detailed in the known bugs thread where you install RSII into an empty folder then copy all the files across into a vanilla RTW folder. I tried it because I thought that maybe the battles were seizing up because when the units had to be rendered as 3d models they required animations which were missing. However, this does not seem to be the case.

Also, vanilla, BI, IBFD, Norman invasion and Ogniem i Mieczem all run battles perfectly well

[Brusilov]

The animation is not missing from the mod as otherwise all would be affected by it.

What was suggested in the 'known problems' was a work-around to get the game to install - clearly there are some people struggling with the install.

[Enyalius]

having allot of the same problems, since yesterday, after my carthage campaign became unplayable. Started playing as Belgae and all "big" battles CTD'd

[tone]

What vegetation and other graphics settings are you playing on? I suggest trying on lower settings, particularly making sure you don't use hi-res vegetation in the launcher. I suspect that your graphics card isn't coping with graphics and is freezing up and CTDing.

[apple]

Yeah that's likely the problem. Make sure to set that to low or normal.
Only Über PC's should use the high quality vegetation option from the launcher.

[redhammer]

I have set all the graphics options to the lowest possible. The resolution is 800x600. I use low quality vegetation. I could play mid-end Roma Surrectum1.6 graphics without any lag at all. I don't think the graphics are causing the problem.

Also, I use a 512 mb Nvidia GeForce 6150 nForce 430 video card

The crash occurs immediately after units have been rendered in 3d

[tone]

Check that you have unit shaders set on in every campaign / custom battle setting.

[redhammer]

Ok. Most of the units seem to work now but the naked ones (naked fanatics and brytonic spearmen) still cause the CTD. I have tried this with and without the modesty patch

EDIT: I tried again with unit shaders on as detailed in a different post and everything works! A mod can go ahead and close this thread now

[tone]

Great.