This mod is so awesome, BUT - Battle Crashes

[Captain Frye]

Hi everyone. This mod is so great, I really love it. I have started WRE campaign and its really challenging, not impossbile though, I almost pushed back the Visigoths and I am pressing the Constantini Empire.

But, there is an issue that is really annoying and makes this mod unplayable atm.
I have clean installation and all that, 7.03 version, no crashes on campaign map, no crashes on battle loading screen, but I often have crashes on the battlefield itself. I play on high settings with large formations, my PC runs Empire total war perfectly on high settings, so I don't think its a Hardware issue.However, I tried to lower my settings , but it still didn't help.
I have Windows 7 with DX11. I believe DX 11 MIGHT be a little incompatible with rome total war, maybe thats why i had experinced all these crashes. Or not? What do you think might be the issue? Because I am soo addicted to this game, I really want to play it, but it's no fun to repeat epic battles(and every battle is an epic battle).

[Captain Frye]

BTW I did NOT install the Sack of Rome script, only the 4tpy script. No soundmod, no other stuff. You know, just 7.03 with 4tpy.

[Gäiten]

BTW I did NOT install the Sack of Rome script, only the 4tpy script. No soundmod, no other stuff. You know, just 7.03 with 4tpy.

I have had sometimes the experience that the game crushed with activated 4tpy script while using W7.
Just try testing it without any script activated.

Furthermore I recommend you to save each time before you start the fight.

[Joar]

I believe DX 11 MIGHT be a little incompatible with rome total war, maybe thats why i had experinced all these crashes. Or not?

Could be. Does the same things happend when you play custom battles?

[Captain Frye]

I never play custom battles. But I understand your point. By doing some custom battles I can figure out if there is a mod issue or my hardware's issue?
I really tried hard to find a solution for my problem on the web, but it seems that noone had the same problem that i have. Many people are complaining about ctd's on loading screens or after the battle, but it seems like nobody has crashes on the battlefield, or they just don't care, which is very unlikely. I think dx 11 is the only logical explanation to my problem. Because all the other games, including other total war games, like empire total war or shogun 2 total war run just perfectly, not a single crash there. I actually added "-dx9" to my ibfd shortcut to force start the game in dx9 mode, and after 4 or 5 battles I didn't have a single crash. Well, it's a bit early to make any conclusions, I need to make like 10 battles to be 100% sure that this was the solution.

[Joar]

Do you get any error messages when it crashes?

[Captain Frye]

Nope, it just says "Application crashed for some unknown reason bla bla bla microsoft will inform you if it will find any solution", of course these clowns wont find a solution any soon.

[Captain Frye]

Nevermind, adding "-dx9" didn't help. Just had a crash when fighting against berbers. Man, thats' frustrating.

[PSEUDO ROMANUS]

Nevermind, adding "-dx9" didn't help. Just had a crash when fighting against berbers. Man, thats' frustrating.

It may not make any difference but what if you make the game compatible with windows XP before you run the application? Give it a shot .

[Captain Frye]

2Pseudo Romanus
That was probably one of the first things that I tried, but unfortunately that didn't help at all.

2Knonfoda
Thanks for your suggestions, but nope: it happens everywhere - in Sahara , in Italy and in Gaul. Crashes seem to be totally random. BTW I had a Blue Screen few days ago(not while playing the game though). Driver IRQl not less or equal. But it was only singular, and didn't happen again. Maybe there is some hidden problem with my hardware or something like that. My graphic card is new, but my Memory Cards are pretty old.Though I've tested my memory with special programms and my they seemed to be alright.

[Knonfoda]

Are you always crashing on the same battle or in the same region (ie Sahara, Syria or Arabia for example?) - if it is, it is likely you have a texture problem (like I had with the Lakhmids) which means the game will always crash when fighting a certain unit that is missing those textures.

[Captain Frye]

Actually, Crusader Kings 2 also crashes sometimes for no real reason. I think it really might be a hardware issue. Damn, how to figure out..

[Captain Frye]

What is the point in making all the scripts if they are screwed up totally? Like, all the scripts cause problems. Then why even implementing them?

[julianus heraclius]

What is the point in making all the scripts if they are screwed up totally? Like, all the scripts cause problems. Then why even implementing them?

From my understanding the 4tpy script has never caused any problems. We know that the Sack of Rome script is buggy and have advised people against using it.

Since V7.03 is rather old now and IB is currently working on V8.0 there hasn't been any work done to correct the Sack of Rome script.

[Gäiten]

Because they do greatly improve gameplay

[Captain Frye]

If they are faulty, they don't improve gameplay experience, rather the opposite.

[Captain Frye]

I changed RAM. Game still crashes. But lets see if the Bluescreens will remain. If not, then its good for me, but on the other hand I wouldn't discover the cause of the crashes. And, unfortunately, it looks like that I am the only one who has this problem.

[Gäiten]

No, you are not the only. I have experienced such crashes too while developing V8.
So far I have not activated any script (these will be overworked yet, at the moment they are low-priority).

Furthermore you may change the ingame graphic settings.

[Captain Frye]

Changing settings is useless. Even if set to low. Even tried to make the application use more than 2gb - didn't help either. Well, there is a point where even people like me are giving up. And I am giving up on this mod. It's awesome, but broken and unplayable.

[PSEUDO ROMANUS]

Changing settings is useless. Even if set to low. Even tried to make the application use more than 2gb - didn't help either. Well, there is a point where even people like me are giving up. And I am giving up on this mod. It's awesome, but broken and unplayable.

I'm sorry it didn't work for you. Id like to make a small correction though to your last statement. Unfortunately it ended up being unplayable for you, but the mod itself is neither broken nor unplayable as many of us can attest .