Haven't seen this CTD described here...

[Jasper9080]

Its at the beginning of a battle after it zooms in and starts to load. It gets a quarter of the way done then CTD. Tried it 3 times and same thing.

Its not a huge problem. I leapfrog from 2 campaign saves every other turn and have one battle save so Im not losing much. Or I could auto_resolve

Anyone have an idea what causes this one though? I just reinstalled the patch yesterday.

[Primo]

Was it always the same battle you tried to start? Or different ones?

[Jasper9080]

Same. I have a dedicated 'battle' save I use any time I go into a battle, not so much for possible CTDs but in case I lose I can replay it with different tactics.

I went ahead and used auto_win just to get past it but I was looking forward to it as we had even numbers but the battle bar was way in their favor

[Primo]

Same. I have a dedicated 'battle' save I use any time I go into a battle, not so much for possible CTDs but in case I lose I can replay it with different tactics.

I went ahead and used auto_win just to get past it but I was looking forward to it as we had even numbers but the battle bar was way in their favor

Could you post the save game?

[Jasper9080]

If it happens again I will but I dont make consecutive saves. I have 3, 2 campaign (like C1 and C2) that I alternate every few turns and 1 battle save that I overwrite with every new battle.

[dvk901]

If it happens again I will but I dont make consecutive saves. I have 3, 2 campaign (like C1 and C2) that I alternate every few turns and 1 battle save that I overwrite with every new battle.

Just a bit of advice...not a good idea to load overwritten saves. The problem is, if something goes wrong, you could end up with two corrupt saves before you even knew it. Save 'consecutively', numbering saves '1, 2, 3' or whatever works. I've had up to 50 saves in a directory at any given time during a campaign, and believe me, they saved my campaign more than a few times. If you get too many, you can just delete the older ones....or not.

If you DO have Unit Shaders turned on, then I can say that there are a number of small spots on the map where we've had a few map issues. They have been fixed, but we're still investigating why they happened in the first place. The map is the same as the 2.1a version, and nothing changed. So whay all the sudden CTD's because of the map?

[Jasper9080]

Just a bit of advice...not a good idea to load overwritten saves. The problem is, if something goes wrong, you could end up with two corrupt saves before you even knew it. Save 'consecutively', numbering saves '1, 2, 3' or whatever works. I've had up to 50 saves in a directory at any given time during a campaign, and believe me, they saved my campaign more than a few times. If you get too many, you can just delete the older ones....or not.

If you DO have Unit Shaders turned on, then I can say that there are a number of small spots on the map where we've had a few map issues. They have been fixed, but we're still investigating why they happened in the first place. The map is the same as the 2.1a version, and nothing changed. So whay all the sudden CTD's because of the map?

Good info, thanks. I'll start doing the save 1,2,3 from now on and I do believe I have unit shaders turned on.

[Paedric]

Do you have the shaders turned on?

[Ferdiad]

I use this as my basic save format.
Rome-555-560W

[ricandy144]

Its at the beginning of a battle after it zooms in and starts to load. It gets a quarter of the way done then CTD. Tried it 3 times and same thing.

Its not a huge problem. I leapfrog from 2 campaign saves every other turn and have one battle save so Im not losing much. Or I could auto_resolve

Anyone have an idea what causes this one though? I just reinstalled the patch yesterday.

I think I experienced the same problem before. My solution is slowly scroll the mouse to avoid the problem. Mine is not caused by CTD but the loss of battle view, just a gray screen and have no way to ESC and reload the game.