Belgae Campaign - Battle Against Germania Problem

[Xantavious]

Hi all, first time I've posted here,

First off would like to thank the RSII team for this amazing piece of work. As an Ancient History student I find it near enough spot on to what I've studied over the past 5 years!

Anyway, to the problem at hand!

During a siege battle during my Belgae campaign, (I as the defender and the Germanic tribe as the attacker) I've noticed that every single time I click the begin deployment button, the client freezes. I can hear my General finish a line of speech, and then nothing. I have to end the game client, restart, and it does the same thing.

I apologize if this issue has been posted before but I couldn't see it.

Any help would be great.

Thank you.

[ur-Lord Tedric]

Do you have the .sav file from just before this happens (I assume this is in the end turn phase if it's the Germans attacking)? Keep it.

First, however, a little more information:

- I take it the battle has loaded (ie after the choice of 'battle map' or 'auto resolve') and it's zoomed in to the settlement and the choice is 'Deploy' or 'Start'?

- which settlement?

- what are your battle-map graphics settings? Have you had any other problems with other battles with the same settings?

- which version of RSII?

If this is an isolated issue, then you should be able to at least get past it by auto-resolving, whilst we try and see why.

[Xantavious]

Thanks for the fast reply!

Yes indeed it is when I've ended the turn.

Battle map loads fine, general will do his speech if I click nothing, but as soon as I hit start deployment it freezes, I can hear background sound from the map but nothing happens.

The settlement is Nematacum, has a stone wall.

Everything is Medium except unit detail which is on high, resolution is 1680x1050. No other problems at all with any battles with numerous factions on these settings. Unit Shaders on, Auto Save off.

RSII 2.5, no other problems except this siege against Germany.

Would rather not auto resolve as I would lose the battle, but can most likely hold it if I fight it myself.

[ur-Lord Tedric]

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Would rather not auto resolve as I would lose the battle, but can most likely hold it if I fight it myself.

Thanks, and yes I quite understand.

Can you please load the .sav here? If so, then, if I can ask others - could those of you who are playing 2.5 please consider trying this gentleman's file and seeing if you have the same issue? Any extra information that might help track down the problem will help.

[Xantavious]

Here is the file.

[Xantavious]

Being a bit simple here, how do I attach a file?

[Ultra123]

if its crashing your game im afraid your better off cheating. type in console auto_win defender, auto resolve the battle and you will win. disband a few units for the effect of losing some men, this is not a good route but a better alternative to a campaign restart.

[Ultra123]

click at bottom 'go advanced'

click on the little 'pin' should be to the right of the smiley face, at the top.

you get a new window pops up with the usual browse buttons.


edit: mod please merge this and my last post. sorry.

[Xantavious]

Well it says it's an invalid file so I can't upload it? Sorry, being a bit dumb I'm sure.

[Xantavious]

Ok think its sorted.

[Ultra123]

ill take a look at this if no1 else does later on tonight when i get home from work.

[Xantavious]

Thanks, really appreciate any help.

[Xantavious]

Just a quick update.

I've forced several other factions to attack Nematacum. I think it is something to do with the settlement that is causing the crash??

[Ultra123]

hmm having a prob with my pc needs to format and reinstall windows...

anyone else available to pick this save up?

[Scipio praeditus]

The file won't work on my unmodded RS2.5.
Could be corrupted, or my install does not find your graphics settings agreeable.
Is the file 4.435.968 bytes unpacked, on disk? If not that could have something to do with your extreme compression rate of less than one third size packed.
Have you any submods installed?

[ur-Lord Tedric]

.., or my install does not find your graphics settings agreeable.
I.......

The graphics settings should come from your own preferences file, not part of the .sav.

Did you delete maps?

[Scipio praeditus]

Did you delete maps?

Forgot about that, doesn't make any difference though, upon loading the campaign (from 1 and 0 turn mode) after a while the loading screen changes and the quote disappears, then I'm booted back to the main menu.

[Xantavious]

No sub mods installed, just RS 2.5.

[Xantavious]

Huge unit settings can cause that problem? How weird, its the only time thats ever happened to me on any total war game and any mod. I've had over 10,000 man battles and not crashed, it was only when defending Nemetacum that it happens. :S

[ur-Lord Tedric]

Huge unit settings can cause that problem? How weird, its the only time thats ever happened to me on any total war game and any mod. I've had over 10,000 man battles and not crashed, it was only when defending Nemetacum that it happens. :S

I hadn't thought about it before, but it might. There simply may be no space within which to deploy the army (ie within the settlement).

'Large' for me - units look right (I always did like the vanilla cohort exactly the same as a RL Centuriae (80 men) and battles last the right length of time.