Eliminating Factions Problem

**kudagra** · July 12, 2011, 03:04 PM

Alright, I have spent a good 7-8 hours trying to fix this problem and researching it on my own. However, I have not been able to solve it. I am France.

Issue: I am currently besieging Milan's final settlement with their king inside with a much larger army.However, upon victory after I click sack settlement I get the unspecified error message will now close.

Attempted Solutions: At first I thought it might be video drivers, so I updated them to no avail.

Next I thought it might just be Milan, so I went and killed off Britain and the same thing happened.

I then disabled all movies thinking it might be that event cutscene. That did nothing.

I have also done three clean installs and I am using the Gold Version. This has become extremely frustrating as it was a really fun campaign fighting on all sides for around 40 turns that I don't want to lose. If anyone could provide some insight I would be greatly appreciative.

**eXistenZ** · July 12, 2011, 03:17 PM

strange, cause unlike as in rome, the faction destroyed message isnt a video (i had problems with rome crashing when ingame videos were played, so i oculd never go to the senate tab :p )

have you patched the game?

**danny X** · July 12, 2011, 03:19 PM

is it modded?
are they a horde faction?

**kudagra** · July 12, 2011, 03:24 PM

I'm not sure if its on the most current patch, though I know its past 1.1 because I can use the unpacker.

Its not a mod game. I have since unpacked and changed the video option.

Not sure what a horde faction is, I looked it up quick and all I can find is that half the army becomes part of the population, which doesnt sound right.

**danny X** · July 12, 2011, 03:30 PM

a horde faction is a faction that can exist without any settlements, like mongols etc, but if your games unmodded then they wont be a horde.

when you unpacked did you the necessary file changes?

**kudagra** · July 12, 2011, 03:33 PM

Yeah no it isn't a horde faction.

I really had no idea what I was doing when I unpacked, I searched for the descr_geography, etc. files were but couldn't find them. Alas, the only reason I unpacked was because I thought there was a cut scene for factions being eliminated which I have found out there is not.

**danny X** · July 12, 2011, 03:37 PM

Originally Posted by kudagra

Yeah no it isn't a horde faction.

I really had no idea what I was doing when I unpacked, I searched for the descr_geography, etc. files were but couldn't find them. Alas, the only reason I unpacked was because I thought there was a cut scene for factions being eliminated which I have found out there is not.

go through the unpacking tutorial, so as to make sure you do what is necessary, there should be one in the tools and tutorials section

**PoleCat** · July 12, 2011, 03:51 PM

You didn't use the 1.1 patch when you patched the game did you? It is not necessary - start at 1.2 and then go to 1.3. Good luck!

**Re_Minder** · July 12, 2011, 03:57 PM

Kill the faction with cheats and take the settlement... otherwise it may just not be possible. I've had a few cases just like that.

**kudagra** · July 12, 2011, 04:10 PM

Ive tried that, but the game just went to the unspecified error again. I also went thought the tutorial for the unpacker and that didn't help.

Its 2011 for hells sake why can't software just work flawlessly already.

**kudagra** · July 12, 2011, 06:18 PM

I would like to thank everyone for the advice.

Through significant trial and error I have found that it seems to be a problem wiht running the program as an administrator as compared to just a user. Unfortunately it looks like I will lose my beast mode campaign unless someone knows how to transfer it?

**Diamond** · July 12, 2011, 08:55 PM

You can go to the Medieval 2 directory, find where it keeps your save games, put it on a flash drive or e-mail it to yourself, switch user accounts to admin or whatever, and paste it into that directory.