CTD after seige defense

**crazy_yank** · February 15, 2011, 08:46 PM

Playing as TO in late turn 7-8 after defending against a siege when I close the battle results screen to go back to the wolrd map I get a unspecified error.
I can do field battles and siege assualts no problem.
Win7 64bit
intel core I7 920 2.7 ghz
Nvidia gtx 260 2x in SLI
6 gigs of ram
UAC has been off since before installation.
and i'm using directX 11 and 10 and get no problems with other mods.
i'm going to try to get some sort of bug log like the other people do in here ASAP but I don't know how to do that yet.

Thanks in advance.

**crazy_yank** · February 15, 2011, 08:51 PM

17:03:14.828 [system.rpt] [always] CPU: SSE2
17:03:14.829 [system.rpt] [always] ==== system log start, build date: Aug 3 2007 version bld-medieval2-kingdoms-104 (45562) ===
17:03:14.834 [system.io] [always] mounted pack packs/data_0.pack
17:03:14.835 [system.io] [always] mounted pack packs/data_1.pack
17:03:14.836 [system.io] [always] mounted pack packs/data_2.pack
17:03:14.837 [system.io] [always] mounted pack packs/data_3.pack
17:03:14.838 [system.io] [always] mounted pack packs/data_4.pack
17:03:14.838 [system.io] [always] mounted pack packs/localized.pack
18:10:16.571 [system.rpt] [error] Medieval 2: Total War encountered an unspecified error and will now exit.

**Navajo Joe** · February 16, 2011, 01:43 AM

crazy_yank,

MTW2 was designed around DX9, please install from link, this does not overwrite new versions, but sits alongside:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/e...displaylang=en

**crazy_yank** · February 16, 2011, 01:48 PM

I installed DX9 and it still crashed at the same point. I reinstalled M2TW in my documents and put SS in there as well.
starting a new campaign to see if its fixed.

**crazy_yank** · February 18, 2011, 04:20 AM

No luck so far. the mod is pretty much unplayable for me.
always crashes after a succesfull seige defense.

**Navajo Joe** · February 18, 2011, 04:24 AM

crazy_yank,

Please take a look at this thread, especially posts 2 & 4

http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?t=426686

**Gunny123** · February 18, 2011, 11:57 AM

Originally Posted by Navajo Joe

crazy_yank,

Please take a look at this thread, especially posts 2 & 4

http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?t=426686

Try deleting map.rwm, all strings.bin files and disabling file cache (which enables compatibility mode) if 2 first methods won't help. You can also have a look at my sticky thread on this forum.

I want to try this fix but what folders are the map.rwn and strings.bin files located in?

**Navajo Joe** · February 19, 2011, 01:58 AM

Originally Posted by Gunny123

Try deleting map.rwm, all strings.bin files and disabling file cache (which enables compatibility mode) if 2 first methods won't help. You can also have a look at my sticky thread on this forum.

I want to try this fix but what folders are the map.rwn and strings.bin files located in?

Gunny123,

Map RWM is found in DATA/CAMPAIGN/EARLY/WORLD/MAPS/BASE & DATA/CAMPAIGN/LATE/WORLD/MAPS/BASE
Strings Bin is DATA/TEXT/ battle.txt.strings.bin

**crazy_yank** · February 18, 2011, 07:04 PM

I deleted the map.rwm and the stongs.bin files, i could not figure out how to disable file cache. I also enabled run a admin.
now the turn times are way longer and the same seige is unplayably laggy now. we are talking about 1-2 frames every few seconds.
I was unable to finish the battle to see if the problem is fixed.

**crazy_yank** · February 18, 2011, 07:38 PM

OK, I did it right this time i deleted the files and added a line to disable the file cache. now it crashes mid battle instead of at the post battle screen.
I don't have a clue what to do at this point as every so called fix is just leading to more problems.
If you guys want any more information to try and root this problem out just tell me what to get. i can even get you a save game right before the siege.