Screen goes blank before entering in game

[mbulgarelli]

hi,
I have just followed the instrusction to install TATW on a newly installe M2TW Kingdoms patched as requested.
I installed part1, part 2 and then 2.1
I enter the game, see the intro, choose the game but after the loading screen (both in normal as in fellowship campaign) the game crashes without any prompt or error message and i am taken back to desktop.
I have windows xp with service pack 3.
In the past I played TATW (i think 1.5) without problems...

Tell me waht to do, tnx a lot

Michele

[jản]

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Than we need your system log of M2TW where the error is logged.

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[mbulgarelli]

sorry,

what should I do to send you the information requested?

michele

[jản]

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Open the TATW.cfg in the mod folder and check if the ";" in front of the log commands (the first command lines)
are removed at the Error log. Than when your game crashes it creates a "logs" folder and a log file in there. These
log file you should attach to your post here, that we can see what's going on.

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[mbulgarelli]

here you are, the system log file

thank you in advance for your time and help

michele

[jản]

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interesting: "20:38:50.718 [data.invalid] [error] Insufficient video memory to load requested texture set."

Looks quite obvious to me. Try to update your driver for your graphic card
and lower the graphic settings in the game before you start a new campaign.
(Use maybe Version 1 Shader and lower all settings to minimum values.)

Than you should check if your HDD has enough space (for the virtual memory
both for RAM and graphic card). You often get those kind of errors when the
system is not able to outroll data virtually on the HDD (what happens if you
don't have enough dedicated RAM on your mainboard and graphic card.)

But what you definitely should try is this: http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?t=376849

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[Gigantus]

It's a missing texture for a strat character. To find out which is missing, set your log to trace and then check the line above the error message.

[BigHairyMelon]

Hi all, I have the same problem as the OP, just downloaded it today and the log message is the same. How do I set the log to trace to find out which file is missing? This must be the issue because I can run Call of Warhammer no problem and have all my drivers up to date.

[Gigantus]

Look for the CFG file in the root of the mod, open it with notepad and change this entry (highlighted only):

[log]
level = * trace

[BigHairyMelon]

The line above my error says this:
16:48:40.400 [system.io] [always] mounted pack packs/localized.pack
16:51:05.214 [data.invalid] [error] Insufficient video memory to load requested texture set.
is it tracing correctly or am i missing that entire pack?

[Gigantus]

The line above my error says this:
16:48:40.400 [system.io] [always] mounted pack packs/localized.pack
16:51:05.214 [data.invalid] [error] Insufficient video memory to load requested texture set.
is it tracing correctly or am i missing that entire pack?

The insufficient video memory is caused by a missing texture of a strat map model. The line above [data.invalid] will tell you which model is causing the error.
Go into descr_model_strat and trace that model.
Then trace if all textures allocated to that model (faction entries) are actually present in the ...\data\models_strat\textures folder. If that is the case, open the CAS file with Notepad and have a look right at the bottom which file it is looking for. If that texture file is not present, simply make a copy of another texture file and rename it as required (it will not be used in game but is required by the engine to function).

[Emperor of Hell]

I think you didn't install correctly, if this was a bug of Third Age total war, may more people would encounter it.

[BigHairyMelon]

Yea, I think so to. I've played this before and its worked fine. before I re installed I removed the mod from the control panel then deleted what was left of the mod folder. Then i just ran the installers again in order. Don't know what not doing right.

[StealthFox]

Hmm, make sure UAC protections is disabled for the M2TW folder.

Follow this guide on how to do it.

[BigHairyMelon]

Yea that has all been done already

[BigHairyMelon]

Thanks for all your help guys, I was missing the ee_wood_castle.dds file in the faction variants folder. Weird how it wasn't even in any of the data packs or in my vanilla texture folder :s. All seems fine now that I copied I copied and renamed some random texture, shouldn't run into many wooden castles anyway on the campaign. I can finally do the Rhun campaign that I have been wanting to do for a while now . Thanks again
+rep for everyone
When i get to 50 posts that is.

[Gigantus]

There is bit of a mess with DDS and TGA files when working with strat models. Glad to see you got it solved.