ctd after most battles

[King Agamemnon of Mycenae]

Hi,
I haven't played rs in a while so when I say the 2.5 patch had come out I decided to give it a go. I have steam so I followed the 2.0 intructions for merging rtw gold and alex, installing to an empty folder then copy paste it into alex etc. The first time I tried to install 2.5 I forgot to remove the (Roma Surrectum 2.5) thing so I redid all of the above with the exception of removing that text in the path.

I then started it up and played through the start of turn 1 until the battle with Hannibal, and after I had won a close victory over him (on vh battles by the way) it after I hit the little check thing on the after battle screen. I then redid my first turn and the same thing happened at the end of the battle (no victory that time) Next I thought it might just be a problem with that spot so I did the trick where you move a single unit next to hannibal and it springs the ambush, allowing Nespos' army to return to Rome safely. So I played out the rest of the turn and the next turn I had brought Scipio up from Sicily and was fought a two army battle against Hannibal and the same thing happened. Finally I tried fighting the Macedonians to see if it was just related to Hannibal and the same thing happened again.

I have windows 7, steam, steam version of rtw gold and alex, installed to my steam directory outside of the program files, tried playing vanilla and 2.0 with no problems and all the "right" settings.
Oh and I waited for about 5 minutes after the end of the battle to make sure the hhd was done.

Thank you in advance,
King Agamemnon of Mycenae

edit: just curious, but why is "text enhance" "enhancing" my text without me telling it too? It seems kind of annoying.

[Risasi]

Are you still experiencing this problem?

[King Agamemnon of Mycenae]

Yes, but not as often. I now get the problem about every third big battle.

If anyone needs anymore information I will gladly provide it,
thanks in advance,
King Agamemnon of Mycenae

[Risasi]

I was having major problems also, with a fresh reinstall. I ended up reinstalling about five times before I got stable. Actually I was making copies of the entire folder and kept reapplying the RSII install until I got a working one. I install to C:\RSII.
Originally I had RSII version 2.0 install some months ago. I had everything turned on, including high vegetation and high res units. I upgraded to 2.5 without problems, but my RTW install had several other mods installed and I wanted to get a clean RSII only install.

I'm also running Windows 7, but not the Steam version of RTW. Just RTW and BI, fully patched. I'm also running Microsoft Security Essentials for antivirus. It does not seem to be causing problems. There are two variables that I changed;
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- This last install I first installed only version 2.0 and played into a campaign without issues. I did not touch any graphics settings, in game or via the launcher. Then I went to 2.1a and played a few more battles. Then I installed 2.5 and have started an Armenian campaign. I'm now five years in and have five or six battles, most of them major, including a city taken by me. Previously I was skipping from 2.0 directly to 2.5. This last time I want 2.0 to 2.1 to 2.5. I don't think it's that, but it is a variable.

- Because all my settings were maxed on my old install, and it would work on version 2.0, previous installs I turned on AA, high settings for graphics, vegetation and high res units. I would turn them down when I got to version 2.5 after experiencing CTD post battles. This time I have not touched these settings at all. I've left them on default settings.

If I go a few more turns without any crashes I will boost all the graphics settings to high via in-game menu, not launcher. If it still continues to work I will add in high res units again from the launcher, and try for CTD's again. If it STILL works after that I will enable vegetation. I'm hoping to pinpoint my failure. I suspect it has something to do with these settings being previously enabled in version 2.0, and even though I would turn them down/off after upgrading to 2.5, something was still being left in an "enabled" state. I am determined to get my settings as high as possible, I want to have my cake and eat it too...