Pergamon Campaign CTD After Ending Turn

**GurglingEmu** · April 02, 2012, 02:15 PM

Hi, I'm playing a Pergamon campaign and I'm at 581 AUC. When I hit end turn, the game crashes to desktop. It crashes as soon as I hit end turn, before the other states take their turns.

I just turned auto-save off.
I am running BI.
I try to follow AI movements, but the game crashes before they do anything.
I have tried loading a save from a couple turns earlier - this also crashes.
I have tried running a new campaign, this does not crash.
It crashes whether or not I start the script.

Please help me!

Thank you.

**century x** · April 02, 2012, 02:40 PM

Well if you just turned off the auto save then I cannot rule out that auto save corrupted your save game.

Did you do any personal modding of the files?

**GurglingEmu** · April 02, 2012, 07:12 PM

I didn't do any personal modding of the files.

It stopped crashing for a few turns, but it started again just now. This happened earlier in the campaign too - I'm not sure what causes it.

Each time that it has occurred I'm able to get past the CTD by doing all kinds of random stuff (including killing bandits + free people, moving my units, changing FoW settings, creating a new save). It takes 10-15 attempts worth of CTDs before I can play for another 10 turns or so.

I do run RS2 out of a folder called "Rome:Total War - copy" because I use the original copy of Rome for Invasio Barbarorum. Could this be causing any problems?

Thanks again.

**century x** · April 02, 2012, 11:15 PM

Originally Posted by GurglingEmu

I didn't do any personal modding of the files.

It stopped crashing for a few turns, but it started again just now. This happened earlier in the campaign too - I'm not sure what causes it.

Each time that it has occurred I'm able to get past the CTD by doing all kinds of random stuff (including killing bandits + free people, moving my units, changing FoW settings, creating a new save). It takes 10-15 attempts worth of CTDs before I can play for another 10 turns or so.

I do run RS2 out of a folder called "Rome:Total War - copy" because I use the original copy of Rome for Invasio Barbarorum. Could this be causing any problems?

Thanks again.

Oh yes that could be the problem. It is recommended to install a mod with a clean RTW 1.5, there could be some files there that are causing corruption. And also the auto save could have corrupted it beyond repair.

**GurglingEmu** · April 03, 2012, 03:30 AM

Just to clarify, it was installed into a clean RTW: BI with the appropriate patch. I had two clean copies on my hard drive. I installed RS2 into one and Invasio Barbarorum into the other. Is that still a problem?

Is there no way that I can undo the damage from the auto-save? That's a real shame.

Thank you.

EDIT: Crap, I just realized that it has been auto saving this whole time. Even though auto_save is set to false in the preferences (and has been for some time now), I have an up-to-date auto-save for my campaign.

Even though Auto_save is set to false, it's still autosaving.

Should there be a preferences.txt in the BI folder or just the RTW folder?

**century x** · April 03, 2012, 09:39 AM

Originally Posted by GurglingEmu

Just to clarify, it was installed into a clean RTW: BI with the appropriate patch. I had two clean copies on my hard drive. I installed RS2 into one and Invasio Barbarorum into the other. Is that still a problem?

Is there no way that I can undo the damage from the auto-save? That's a real shame.

Thank you.

EDIT: Crap, I just realized that it has been auto saving this whole time. Even though auto_save is set to false in the preferences (and has been for some time now), I have an up-to-date auto-save for my campaign.

Even though Auto_save is set to false, it's still autosaving.

Should there be a preferences.txt in the BI folder or just the RTW folder?

Are you editing the preference file in the appropriate faction folder. Like Play_Rome

**Ybbon** · April 03, 2012, 11:16 AM

2 things. Your location for the game is fine.
there should be a preferences editor on the launcher, use that to change the auto_save.

I would suspect that is the root cause here, I tested Pergamon a lot and didn't get any CTD at that point. Some people are lucky and never have problems with auto_save but it's safer to just disable it - could be worse though, you could be about to take over the last settlement on the map and discover every save has been corrupted

**GurglingEmu** · April 03, 2012, 03:30 PM

Oh okay, I changed the preferences.txt for the Pergamon campaign through the launcher. It doesn't auto-save anymore, but I still can't advance past that turn in the campaign. I get a CTD as soon as I hit end turn.

Should I just start a new campaign? Or is there something else that I can try?

Sorry this is taking so long.