SS 6.4: Unspecified Error CTD during Battle

[MKeogh]

I'm playing France in early campaign on H/H. It's 1240 and I've been trying to fight a battle that would relieve a siege of London by the English. I use my relieving army to attack from directly behind the besieging army and let the AI handle the garrison army. I've tried to fight this battle three times and had the same Unspecified Error CTD occur everytime within a couple minutes of the battle starting.

I've been able to play over a 140 turns without any major difficulties. I have run into a few problems, but was able to work through them. I had a lock-up problem during a battle in the very early part of this campaign, but after it occuring twice on the the same battle I was able to fight it out the third time. I also had this same Unspecified Error CTD occur during an earlier battle against the English, but was able to fight the same battle when I loaded it up a second time. However, "third time's the charm" did not work with this current battle.

I've attached my system log

[Wolfstorm999]

Im also having these "unspecified errors" which causes ctds. What is happening is that in the export_descr_unit file theres a lot of empty lines between some unit attributes, and this causes crashes when those units go to the battlefield.

[newt]

Which units? And what program are you using to look at it? I went through a little over half of them and it all looked fine to me.

[Wolfstorm999]

Well, a lot of them, for example, now I looking the type Peasant Archers and theres a empty line between the "officer" and "attributes", bellow it same happens with S Peasant Archers and Longbowmen, always between officer and attributes. It will not always crash, but when it happens I correct it, hitting backspace in the empty line, save the file and then it dont crash anymore.

[newt]

That's not the cause. I have those empty lines too, and never crash when I use longbows or peasant archers as England. I played a few different campaigns as England and Sicily up to turn 80 and never had a battle crash.

[Taekwondo]

Hello, i need some help, i am having staineless steel 6.4 and when i play campainge sometimes (often) when i wanna enter battle and lead my army while on loading screen it crashes with "medieval encountered unspecified error" and I cant fix it.. tryed loading game - same happens, tryed reinstalin whole medieval and SS it still keeps happening.. im havin those crashes in battle too but not that often.. any help would be really appriciated..
My system log says this:

20:56:14.343 [system.rpt] [always] CPU: SSE2
20:56:14.343 [system.rpt] [always] ==== system log start, build date: Aug 3 2007 version bld-medieval2-kingdoms-104 (45562) ===
20:56:14.343 [system.io] [always] mounted pack packs/data_0.pack
20:56:14.359 [system.io] [always] mounted pack packs/data_1.pack
20:56:14.359 [system.io] [always] mounted pack packs/data_2.pack
20:56:14.359 [system.io] [always] mounted pack packs/data_3.pack
20:56:14.359 [system.io] [always] mounted pack packs/data_4.pack
20:56:14.359 [system.io] [always] mounted pack packs/localized.pack
20:57:27.312 [system.rpt] [error] Medieval 2: Total War encountered an unspecified error and will now exit.

[preachercheeze]

Hello, i need some help, i am having staineless steel 6.4 and when i play campainge sometimes (often) when i wanna enter battle and lead my army while on loading screen it crashes with "medieval encountered unspecified error" and I cant fix it.. tryed loading game - same happens, tryed reinstalin whole medieval and SS it still keeps happening.. im havin those crashes in battle too but not that often.. any help would be really appriciated..
My system log says this:

20:56:14.343 [system.rpt] [always] CPU: SSE2
20:56:14.343 [system.rpt] [always] ==== system log start, build date: Aug 3 2007 version bld-medieval2-kingdoms-104 (45562) ===
20:56:14.343 [system.io] [always] mounted pack packs/data_0.pack
20:56:14.359 [system.io] [always] mounted pack packs/data_1.pack
20:56:14.359 [system.io] [always] mounted pack packs/data_2.pack
20:56:14.359 [system.io] [always] mounted pack packs/data_3.pack
20:56:14.359 [system.io] [always] mounted pack packs/data_4.pack
20:56:14.359 [system.io] [always] mounted pack packs/localized.pack
20:57:27.312 [system.rpt] [error] Medieval 2: Total War encountered an unspecified error and will now exit.

please don't post in multiple threads and in dead threads.... be patient and someone will help you...

first off, the log you provided doesn't provide all the info.... edit the default.cfg in the SS main directory and edit relevant entries, so that it looks like this:
[log]
to=mods/SS6.3/system.log.txt
level=* trace
;level=* error

then replay the game where it crashed and if it crashes again, post that logs last hundred or so lines here with spoiler tags like such

[spoilerX] [/spoilerX] just delete the X:es


also... please provide any sub-mods installed, which AI you are using and if you have RR or BYG ticked...



EDIT: copypasted Germanicu5 for the log trace....

[Taekwondo]

I am sorry about multiple posts, i never posted anything ever so dont know how it works

I have no submods installed, only stainless steel 6.4, playin early campainge with permanent arrows and watchtowers, savage AI, Longer assimilation, and tryed bout byg grim reality II and byg grim reality IV with Scotland and Byzantine Empire..

I had just tryed custom battle with Byzant vs Selijuk and it crashed on loading screen..

I didnt know how to post it here so i tryed to attach in txt format but it wont accept cause its larger then 1mb (13mb) so i rar-ed it and attached like that.. i hope it worked.. im not very good at this

[preachercheeze]

I am sorry about multiple posts, i never posted anything ever so dont know how it works

I have no submods installed, only stainless steel 6.4, playin early campainge with permanent arrows and watchtowers, savage AI, Longer assimilation, and tryed bout byg grim reality II and byg grim reality IV with Scotland and Byzantine Empire..

I had just tryed custom battle with Byzant vs Selijuk and it crashed on loading screen..

I didnt know how to post it here so i tryed to attach in txt format but it wont accept cause its larger then 1mb (13mb) so i rar-ed it and attached like that.. i hope it worked.. im not very good at this

Hmm... nothing in here to my knowledge seems to be causing the crashes...

what is your battle screen resolution? it should be the same as the desktops or that might cause crashes... also, try and disable some of the graphic options if that doesn't help... sometimes, a CTD can happen if you have too high graphic on, like shadows, blooming effects and anti-aliasing... but first, make sure you have the same resolution in battle maps and campaign maps as your desktop...

[Taekwondo]

ok, my battle screen resolution is set on 1280 by 1024 pixels same as my desktop resolution... I tryed to disable bloom, reflections, shadows, anti-aliasing.. same happened.. then i puted all on lowest possible, crashed again... dont know what to try now thx for your time and help anyway

[Basileus Alexandros Lex]

Hi. I have a problem with stainless steel!! I'm playing with the byzantines and the turn is the 227!! When I change the turn the game crashes when the portuguese flag appears!! " an unspecified error as occured and the game will now close"!!! can you help me please? I've invested a lot of time in this game!!! reply please

[Byg]

I've only ever once had this sort of thing where my game would not pass a turn despite reloading past saves and trying to pass the same point. The aragonese were down to one settlement in Mallorca and it crashed on their turn.

My solution was to use the console and surrender that faction on the turn before the error. As they were so small it made very little difference to my campaign. That may not be the case for you though.

In the console surrender_regions portugal

[GpS]

Hi !
I must refresh this topic because i have the same problem. My game crashes randomly during the battle.
I have tryed to reinstall SS, change graphic conf. and game settings. Nothing worked.
I'm not using any sub-mods.
Here is the system log:
system.log.txtsystem.log.txt

I will be thankful for help because this problem started in the end of my campain and I really want to finish it ;-)

[Navajo Joe]

You need to install the latest version of RBAI which SS uses, found in Sub Mods

[GpS]

It worked... for one battle :-/
Thanks anyway ;-)

[GpS]

Hmmm I think thats another bug, because game crashes exactly when my mercenary ribauldequin starts fireing.

[Navajo Joe]

Please tell us a bit more, about what you have installed, any modifications that you have made?

[Losthief]

uhhhh....first, lol at the necro, just create your own post next time, but im glad you used the search function .

more importantly, your system logs didn't post right. just copy paste it in next time, but let me see the new one. It might be the unit thats messed.

[Soulbourne]

Figured since I have the same problem, may as well post the details here. I'm running SS 6 4, BYGR IV, lusted AI I believe, and extended assimilation. Nothing else I'm aware of. I'm currently playing as france, turn 60 or so, and besieging the last english holding in france-Caen. There is currently large unrest due to me not yet grasping how punishment works yet, but not sure if that would affect it.

So, a small army of 90 or so men come to break the siege-backed by the garrison. I have a general's bodyguard, a unit of 3 mailed knights, 2 units of light men-at-arms, 4 levy archers, and 8? Maybe militia spearmen. I have 3 militia at the front to deal with the reinforcing force, and the rest in an archer Infantry cavalry line setup. The moment my archers attack-either the general's bodyguard or knights, not sure-the game crashes. The first time they had flame arrows I believe and it only crashed when I charged their men-at-arms with my spearmen(The relieving forces that is).


Here's the entire log file:

system.log.zip

[Losthief]

update rbai to the latest version. It fixes a bug with reinforcements, esp. seiges, which this sounds like.