Unspecified error on Rebel turn (turn 252)

**Schwarzenegger** · April 25, 2011, 07:58 AM

6.4.
Early campaign.
Playing as Aragon.
During turn 252.
Faction before rebel turn is Timurids. (once it crashed on the Timurid turn)
Doesn't seem to be caused by any specific action or movement, random heretics and rebel units move around the map.

I read around and think it might have to do with something about the timurid characters missing names or something, so the script encounters an error when it tries moving a name that isn't there. But further than that that doesn't help very much since I have no idea how to change names and if I did, what are the names that should be changed or added. The only possible oddity in my eyes I have seen while clicking on the Timurid generals is that one of them uses an underscore " _ " instead of a space between the general's first and last name while all the others have spaces.

Timurids have just shown up this turn, so I'm sure the issue is relating to them.

My system log is an 11MB monstrosity, so I'm not sure I should include all that here. It is so long because I edited the config as this post suggests here http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showt...27#post8771427
Prior to that, my log was blank.

I'm including my turn 252 save as well as my last turn 251 save.

Any help much appreciated

**Schwarzenegger** · April 25, 2011, 12:27 PM

So I did some investigating of my own. I killed all rebels with cardinals assassins and armies, took the two rebel cities, and then ended the turn with follow AI movements.

The game crashed again, but one thing I noticed was that I didn't follow any Timurid movements. Now whether that means that for whatever reason they didn't move or that for whatever reason it wouldn't follow their movements, I can't tell, but I thought it interesting.

**Schwarzenegger** · April 25, 2011, 04:06 PM

Well, I uninstalled SS and deleted the SS folder after the install. Reinstalled it and after hanging on the rebel turn for about 3 minutes, I made it through the turn and it seems to be working fine so far (turn 255 now)

**bɑne** · April 26, 2011, 12:41 AM

Originally Posted by Schwarzenegger

Well, I uninstalled SS and deleted the SS folder after the install. Reinstalled it and after hanging on the rebel turn for about 3 minutes, I made it through the turn and it seems to be working fine so far (turn 255 now)

Strange, doesn't seem to be anything cs related then as the campaign script is saved along with other stuff in the savegame. If something like this happens again you can always try to use "surrender_regions <faction>" on the faction that is last displayed ingame.

**Schwarzenegger** · April 26, 2011, 03:10 PM

It's now turn 275 and it's happening again

I did surrender_region timurids but it did not prevent the crash.

While using toggle_fow and follow AI, I'm not seeing any movement on part of the Timurids or the rebels. Could that have to do with anything?

Any other suggestions?

My log doesn't help very much either:

16:04:29.937 [system.rpt] [always] CPU: SSE2
16:04:29.953 [system.rpt] [always] ==== system log start, build date: Aug 3 2007 version bld-medieval2-kingdoms-104 (45562) ===
16:04:29.968 [system.io] [always] mounted pack packs/data_0.pack
16:04:29.968 [system.io] [always] mounted pack packs/data_1.pack
16:04:29.968 [system.io] [always] mounted pack packs/data_2.pack
16:04:29.968 [system.io] [always] mounted pack packs/data_3.pack
16:04:29.968 [system.io] [always] mounted pack packs/data_4.pack
16:04:29.968 [system.io] [always] mounted pack packs/localized.pack
16:12:22.140 [system.rpt] [error] Medieval 2: Total War encountered an unspecified error and will now exit.

**Schwarzenegger** · April 26, 2011, 10:15 PM

Ok so I changed some of the log settings as instructed in some post I found, now I have several logs, don't know what to make of them but here they are. I've also attached my latest save.

I spent about an hour or so wiping rebel armies navies and characters off of the map but it did not prevent the error. I also moved armies that were besieging the Teutonic Order, thinking it might do something for some reason.

My next step is going to be surrendering some of the factions and see if that will do anything, with the work I've done wiping out the rebels. I did it before my rebel extermination but didn't do anything, I'm keeping optimistic and thinking this might have changed things.

lately, it has been crashing on the Timurid turn rather than the rebel turn.

I forgot to mention it, but I'm using Savage AI, RR enabled, Big grym disabled, and permanent watchtowers. No additional mods.

**tomaka121** · April 27, 2011, 09:22 AM

Hmmm, I use similar mod pack (except with longer assimilation) and i'm having a similar problem: error on France turn. Can you try to use the console command 'disable_ai' or 'disable_ai tac' because it allows me to take turn but as soon as I save, exit game andd reload it crashes again.