Crash after loading battle maps.

[Leto Atreides]

I've had Third Age 3.1 installed and working properly for some weeks, then suddenly this morning it's crashing whenever a battle map has finishing loading. I get a glimpse of the field and then the game crashes.

It's not just in my current campaign, custom battles also crash. Medieval II Kingdoms and the other mods I have have installed do not crash (Westeros, Grand Campaign). I didn't modify the Third Age mod or bring any change to my PC since the last time the mod worked normally.

This is what I get when the game crashes:



Any ideas of what I could do before redownloading and reinstalling the mod?

[will_rommel]

It's quite strange, because i have the exact same problem today!

Been playing vanilla TATW for more than 2 months without problems/modifications and it now crash before i can deploy my troops. It looks like the terrains textures are absents? (Purple-ish or black)

It also happens in both custom battles and campaigns. The last time i played a battle was friday, it was a custom battle vs 2 AI.

[Leto Atreides]

I tried completely reinstalling the mod, a Windows 7 system restore and a graphic drivers upgrade.

I still get the crash.

[Wizad]

I can't test my game atm as I'm not at home.

What version of Windows do you guys use? Perhaps a new Windows update interferes with the engine?

I use XP btw, and 2 days ago, my game worked perfectly fine.

[Leto Atreides]

I can't test my game atm as I'm not at home.

What version of Windows do you guys use? Perhaps a new Windows update interferes with the engine?

I use XP btw, and 2 days ago, my game worked perfectly fine.

Windows 7, but windows updates shows no recent update that could cause the crash. My system restore didn't do anything either.

[brasswire]

Last night was daylight savings. Possible that is the cause?

I also am getting this error.


Update!! I believe daylight savings may in fact be the problem. Just tried unclicking the "automatically adjust for daylight savings" checkbox on the Windows date/time and custom battle loaded fine without crashing.

There must be something in the mod that is looking at the date/time and it's getting screwed up by daylight savings.

[C.Maximus]

gettin the same problem, however i do not know how to unclick the automatically adjust for dalight savings checkbox... i have no idea where it is... is it the same as sync with the net clock box? please help, in the middle of a co-op hotseat epic war with the Rhun as the Dale and Dwarvish kingdoms... I must not lose this campaign!

[brasswire]

For me (Windows Vista) I go to Control Panel, Date and Time Settings. Then Change Time Zone. On that screen there is a checkbox for "automatically adjust clock for Daylight Savings Time". If I uncheck that, then the game does not crash (in my very limited testing so far).

Of course the time on my computer is also wrong then, but at least the game works.

[Leto Atreides]

Now I've seen everything; A game that crashes because it doesn't like the time your computer is set at.

I unchecked the box for "automatically adjust clock for Daylight Saving Time". Now I can load battles and play.

After wasting a afternoon trying to fix things...

[brasswire]

Now I've seen everything; A game that crashes because it doesn't like the time your computer is set at.

It is an odd one.

Just want to add that I don't think this should be considered an actual "fix". It's just a work-around until someone can fix the code within the mod.

[C.Maximus]

Lol got it to wrk.. Thanks glad to see the game aint broken

[will_rommel]

Great find man! I solved it too by unchecking this "auto time box".

Is it MOD related or a known problem from the game engine?

[Stylix]

Strange, I am running Win 7 64 and have not had any problems. I played quick, custom and campaign battles with no errors.

[RInger]

Strange, I am running Win 7 64 and have not had any problems. I played quick, custom and campaign battles with no errors.

I have Windows 7 also, and I was having problems, but unchecking the box fixed it. Good thing, too, because I'm over 100 turns into my campaign as Mordor, have almost completely destroyed Gondor, and am just a few turns away from returning the Ring to Barad-dur, and I would hate to lose all that progress.

[Incredible Bulk]

Weird it never happen to
Me before. It it did today I was trying to play a custom battle and it crashed

[Incredible Bulk]

Thanks for the fi guys

[warden]

Thanks for the post and temp fix. I should have checked here before deleting the sub mod and then reinstalling.

[Pelican Man]

Wow that's weird... lol I had the same thing happened.. I just went straight to bed and decided to look it up here in the morning. Great find!!

+rep

[p00pwater]

i had same problem, now i have to go to arizona time to unadjust daylight savings. hope someone can post a fix for the mod!

[C.Maximus]

Just fix your time manually .. Add an hr lol