Bug Reports for 6.4! - Post CTDs in a new topic!

[Fracchione]

thx gracul for your effort,God blesses you

[gracul]

They aren't ageing? Hmm weird, they should.
Anyways thats because i forgot to check if a faction is alive before spawning stuff for them (scripts got changed into hotseat compatible mode and the structure of monitors is different, need to add faction check too )

[Wölfchen]

Hello
I hope I´m in the right thread.

I got following problem when starting SS6.4
"Unable to locate kingdoms.exe. Is Kingdoms. exe in your MTW2 folder?"

SS6.3 runs without problems, so does SS6.2
I already reinstalled SS6.4

I´ve got steam installed on my PC, but my MTW2 is NOT a steam-version.
OS: Win7 64 bit.

Any other information needed?

Tried to search for the problem but didnt find anything helpfull. (or I just cant search )

[Atheron]

Hello
I hope I´m in the right thread.

I got following problem when starting SS6.4
"Unable to locate kingdoms.exe. Is Kingdoms. exe in your MTW2 folder?"

SS6.3 runs without problems, so does SS6.2
I already reinstalled SS6.4

I´ve got steam installed on my PC, but my MTW2 is NOT a steam-version.
OS: Win7 64 bit.

Any other information needed?

Tried to search for the problem but didnt find anything helpfull. (or I just cant search )

I have the same problem as him except I bought MW2/Kingdoms from Steam but I still get the message "Unable to locate kingdoms.exe. Is Kingdoms. exe in your MTW2 folder?" after doing a perfect intallation of SS6.4 (meaning doing all the instructions given on the forum, UAC off, protection off, admin login, etc.) On internet that only goes up to 300 kb/s Dx< took blinken long (even though my internet is suppose to be 5 mb/s stupid Canadian Telecom companies ripping us off >).< )

I even redownloaded everything (MW2/Kingdoms/Updates/SS6.3/SS6.4), reinstalled it and nothing has worked.

I noticed that gracul submitted a launcher under Wolfchen's post but all that does is now say "Unable to locate kingdoms.exe. Run launcher again for new browse dialog." even though kingdoms is in the same folder, I even moved it over to the MW2 folder and placed it right under kingdoms.exe and still no dice.

I've searched the forums and even submitted my bug in the bug forums but no one seems to know the answer so hopefully it'll be noticed here >).<

OS: Win 7 64 bit
MW2/Kingdoms Installation: Steam
All Installed in the same Steam folder on C drive
SS6.3/6.4 Installed under mods in the MW2 folder next to the other campaigns from original kingdoms.
Admin Login: Yes
UAC Off: Yes
Fresh Install of everything: Painfully Yes
Firewall/Computer Protection Off: Yes

Also I can't make my Steam folder non read-only I tried to do that to do a trick with fooling launcher but it always reverts back to Read-Only no matter what I do but it didn't seem to matter when SS6.3 was installed because it works perfectly.

[PimP_BombadiL]

@Atheron, theres a steam guide in this post by Meneth that works http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?t=378648

[gracul]

Oh damn.
For now use the launcher from the attachement.

Meanwhile - sometime next week i'll release a rewritten launcher without errors like this one.

[NH2486]

so my problem is that I have a clean install of both 6.3 and the 6.4 patch and before i installed 6.4 everything worked perfectly and i loved the game, but now with 6.4 my game window is smaller and in the left hand top corner of my screen and I dont know why thats happened?

[Meneth]

Set the resolution to your desktop resolution.

[NH2486]

thanks Meneth! worked perfectly

[preachercheeze]

not a bug per sé, but still an annoyance...

In early campaign when choosing faction there are no borders when displaying the starting territories and in late campaign there is...

I prefer non-border mini-maps so this could maybe be adressed...

[Wölfchen]

Thanks for the quick response!
The launcher works =)

I don´t know if it´s already known, but with a german version of MTW2 some factions are muted (at least on the campaign map), for example Novgorod, Kiev and I think it was Poland. Already had that problem in SS6.3

The Grand Campaign Mod had the same problem, there was a fix for it.
http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?t=176117

Only problem for me: what are the correct names for the different nations? Fix doesnt sound that complicated.

[bɑne]

Thanks for the quick response!
The launcher works =)

I don´t know if it´s already known, but with a german version of MTW2 some factions are muted (at least on the campaign map), for example Novgorod, Kiev and I think it was Poland. Already had that problem in SS6.3

The Grand Campaign Mod had the same problem, there was a fix for it.
http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?t=176117

Only problem for me: what are the correct names for the different nations? Fix doesnt sound that complicated.

I think Fred Putz had that one fixed for 6.3 but seeing as totalwar-zone.de shut down I can't link you to it. Maybe he sees this, I'll drop him a visitor message in any case

[Ninefingers]

Few minor things I've noticed over the course of a few campaigns, still playing a fresh 6.4 with no submods.

- Hanseatic League headquarters offered in more than one city; playing as Denmark, I had already received (and accepted) an offer for the HL HQ in Arhus, and when I bought Hamburg from the HRE it was offered there as well. I declined, so I don't know if it would have actually built it or not but I assume so. This is only a bug assuming that the HQ is supposed to be unique.

- Playing as Aragon, I bought Toledo (God, I like to buy provinces) from Leon and among the units spawned there were Mailed Foot Knights, whose unit description depicted two-handed axemen. Unit description text and stats looked normal, as did the unit card.

- During several occasions of (you guessed it) purchasing provinces from AI factions, if the province is a sufficiently high-level castle a generic unit of General's Bodyguard will spawn there; just the cavalry, without the general. The unit remains 0 upkeep and can be retrained.

[Grandal]

I play the Crown of Aragon. My generals have no negative
characteristics, King is decent and the successor of the crown is not bad at all. Their
movements were normal, but they stayed for 3 rounds in castles/city and I practically
can't move them.
For example. From Barcelona to the nearest town, a simple general's move would take 40 turns. What's the cause? Inventory? It's not
written anywhere that for some reason, they have limited movement.
Tarried too long? Rheumatism or they're lazy?

[Fred Putz]

Thanks for the quick response!
The launcher works =)

I don´t know if it´s already known, but with a german version of MTW2 some factions are muted (at least on the campaign map), for example Novgorod, Kiev and I think it was Poland. Already had that problem in SS6.3

The Grand Campaign Mod had the same problem, there was a fix for it.
http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?t=176117

Only problem for me: what are the correct names for the different nations? Fix doesnt sound that complicated.

For 6.4 the "old" 6.3 version should work too:
http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?t=393831

Unfortunatly the Totalwar-Zone.de is dead as Bane already mentioned. If Your looking for a new german TW site - it´s here:
http://strategie-zone.de/forum/viewforum.php?f=209 as part of the "Strategiezone.de". There is also a small Stainless Steel area and a nice musicthread.

I wanted to integrate that "soundfix" into the new upcoming and overhauled german translation i´m working on atm. (Featuring "Heldenhaft" and some Improvements from the latest RR/RC version which was more accurate all the time) Should work with the setup.exe too - i´ll have a look at that later (next weekend will be release - perhaps)

[Gorrrrrn]

Need to add spear militia to russia and kievan_rus factions for recruiting in low-level town barracks - they can also recruit junior militia but the slave faction can't recruit junior militia.
So slave faction can't recruit anything in low-level barracks in russia and kievan_rus faction creator regions. (easy enough to do.)

also need to add Baltic Spearmen to units slave has ownership of, as they appear to be only spears recruitable in lithuania faction creator regions, and slave can't recruit anything in those settlements
in low-level barracks either unless it has ownership of them.

[Donjon]

I cant even start playing 6.4.
6.3 worked perfectly but when i upgraded to 6.4 it crashes right before any cinemas or loadings.
all i see is cool picture of some templar and then it crashes to desktop and doesnt give any errors or anything.

I have windows 7 and have Savage AI, RR/RC and permanent arrows and watchtowers

[Théoric HämmerHörde]

I cant even start playing 6.4.
6.3 worked perfectly but when i upgraded to 6.4 it crashes right before any cinemas or loadings.
all i see is cool picture of some templar and then it crashes to desktop and doesnt give any errors or anything.

I have windows 7 and have Savage AI, RR/RC and permanent arrows and watchtowers

I am having the EXACT same problem

[bɑne]

Please report only non-CTD bug's in this topic, such as typos or graphical errors.

If you have a CTD (crash to desktop) problem, create a new thread in this sub-forum.
Information to include:

• when is the CTD happening (turn number, who's turn, which era)
• attach your zipped/rared system.log (can be found in start menu -> stainless steel -> error log)
• optionally you can attach the save game file.

Most importantly, if you encounted a CTD or CTM(crash to menu) on faction selection and you just installed 6.4, this is most probably an UAC\VirtualStore Problem.
The release thread has a solution to this, another way would be to install 6.3 in a different folder outside Program Files, and install 6.4 on it. Due to the nature of the launcher this solution will work.

[triskex]

I had this problem while I was using the SS Setup, I clicked late campaign then unchecked permanent arrows then pressed ok and I got this error message.

"Error while processing Watchtowers.txt

File does not exist:
data\world\maps\campaign\imperial_campaign\descr_strat.txt"

then I reinstalled a clean 6.3 then 6.4 and I'm still getting this pop up, help