Unexplained crash after unpacking

**tyboman** · March 25, 2012, 09:36 PM

I am getting an Unspecified error ctd after unpacking my Medieval II: Total War Gold. I have all kingdoms campaigns installed, and I have the amazon version, kingdoms is 1.4, med II is 1.3. Will include system log if it will help.

**tyboman** · March 25, 2012, 09:57 PM

Spoiler Alert, click show to read:

**irishron** · March 25, 2012, 10:00 PM

Updated Kingdoms to 1.5, yet?

Have you ever been able to play the game on this computer?

Are we talking campaign or battles?

**tyboman** · March 25, 2012, 10:21 PM

crash for custom battles, any unit, yes I played it before I unpacked it. and no update to 1.5 because it currently doesn't exist for the amazon version.

**irishron** · March 26, 2012, 07:15 AM

Did you read the readme in the unpacker folder about the two geography files that have to be deleted?

**ck07** · July 12, 2012, 07:54 PM

Cannot find those two files. Where to look?

**irishron** · July 12, 2012, 08:04 PM

Originally Posted by ck07

Cannot find those two files. Where to look?

In Medieval II Total War\data.

If Win 7 or Vista and istalled in default loacation, unhide all files and folders in Folder Options, then users\username\appdata\roaming\you're on your own.

**ck07** · July 12, 2012, 08:13 PM

All m2tw folders have--already did have--all files unhidden. Still cannot find.

**tyboman** · March 26, 2012, 08:30 AM

Must have missed that bit. I'll try that. Thanks!

**tyboman** · March 26, 2012, 09:34 AM

Worked! +rep to you good sir!

**irishron** · March 26, 2012, 09:58 AM

Good to hear. Enjoy playing.

**irishron** · July 12, 2012, 08:32 PM

Have you tried using the search box in the top right corner of Computer?

**ck07** · July 12, 2012, 08:49 PM

Originally Posted by irishron

Have you tried using the search box in the top right corner of Computer?

No such file names anywhere on c:

Yes, the 36,000-odd file writes did go by after issuing the unpack command. Cannot find any of them, but presumably something happened since my game did not crash before I did that.

**irishron** · July 12, 2012, 09:02 PM

They are there

What is your OS?

Are you logged in as Adiminstrator?

**ck07** · July 12, 2012, 09:04 PM

Windows 7/64.

This computer has only one account, which is the administrator.

**irishron** · July 12, 2012, 09:13 PM

It maybe tied to this. http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?t=397636

I've been runnign Win7 64bit since it was released almost three years ago with no problems.

**ck07** · July 12, 2012, 09:20 PM

Thanks but no joy. I now have all files on the entire disk unhidden and they are still not there (two files with similar names do exist in RTW directories).

**irishron** · July 12, 2012, 09:37 PM

From the readme,

Code:

V. USING MODIFIED FILES
______________________________________________________________________


-  To use the modified files create a batch file in your 
   Medieval II: Total War folder
   
-  In the batch file add the following line
   
   medieval2.exe --io.file_first
   
-  NOTE: Due to a timestamp check, the following unpacked files will
   cause the game to crash and must be deleted before the game is
   launched:

	data\descr_geography_new.txt
        data\descr_geography_new.db

-  Save the batch file and then launch Medieval II: Total War using the
   newly created batch file.

and these are the ones you need to delete.

**ck07** · July 12, 2012, 09:46 PM

Per post #9, I cannot find these files. I tried running the unpacker again with UAC turned off. Appeared to complete successfully (10+ minutes) but no change in space used on disk. Of course that could just mean that the first run was successful. FWIW, I am experience two additional problems. List_contents.bat appears to run but does not create the file it should, and when I attempted to save an edited version of unpacker.bat I was told that I did not have administrator privileges--even though there is only one account, the administrator.

Not experiencing any difficulties with anything except M2TW.

**irishron** · July 12, 2012, 09:59 PM

Medieval2 is an animal like no other program out there.

With the UAC off, use the link I posted starting with the C: drive icon to take ownership of your files.

Windows says you don't have the permissions and this is the only way to get them. I have fighting this since Vista was released.

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