Battle crashes (just sometimes)

[Grymloq]

I played vanilla again after a while, started a campaign and all went fine. Suddenly during a battle loading the game crashed (even reloading and trying again). This fact started to become more frequent after that and I don't know how to solve it. I have never had such problems.
At first I thought it was siege battles but I was wrong, then I thought that the cause was some units and checked in custom battle. At first all was ok, then it crashed frequently also in custom battles. So it seems to crash randomly (always during loadings) doesn't matter which units/factions/location-climate I choose.

What can I do? My Med2 and Kingdoms are not Steam and not Gold Edition. Thanks

[irishron]

Ever unpack the game?

[Grymloq]

No.

I was playing as HRE and tried to start a game also as Spain and France to see if the problem affects them too. I fought everything I found and never had such thing. Then I continued my Hre campaign and in 10 battles fought none crashed. Now we'll see if it has turned back to normality...

[irishron]

Have you installed the Kingdoms patch?

[Grymloq]

Yes

[irishron]

Any particular unit of HRE's or all of them?

[Grymloq]

I think that the problem are the enemy units. Fighting Venice, Milan and Denmark never happened a crash, against Poland and rebels sometimes happened. I encountered crashes also fighting Scotland (only two battles fought, both crashed) and being helped by England in a siege.
I mean I use the same types of units in every frontier I have but just in some occasions the game crashes, so I think the problem is more likely caused by enemy troops

[irishron]

In vanilla, Venetian Heavy Infantry is bugged. The hosted mods have it fixed. Timurid Elephant Cannons are bugged in sieges.
Anything else has this possibility. We ended up being CA's Beta testers and they still didn't fix them.

[Grymloq]

Really? Never had any strange issue before. I have tested Venetian heavy infantry some days ago and it seemed ok. I don't mind Timurid elephants for the moment. But in the past years I've tried every type of unit and have never had any bug or crash related to this.

[irishron]

You could be running out of memory if like two or three battles in a row.
It can be heat for the same reason.
It could be parts wearing out if it's the same computer up through the present.
The computer could need a cleaning of the case.
The computer could need a a good defragging after running disk cleanup.

[Grymloq]

I changed my computer exactly one year ago, but however the crashes seem to have stopped (at least for now). Thanks irishron, if they pop up again I will post once more

[irishron]

You're welcome. Come on back when they do.

[Grymloq]

I've encountered other crashes and they seem to be caused by some units as you said. At the moment I found woodsmen and halberd militia to be the cause (at least against Poland and rebels). Also I have a strange bug with pikes but it doesn't seem related to them.

[irishron]

Make a list and post it.

[Grymloq]

Ok.
For now the units are:
Woodsmen (both Poland and Russia)
Halberd Militia
Billmen
Militia Billmen
Heavy Billmen
Heavy Militia Billmen
Dismounted French Knights

I will update the list if I find others, thanks

[Grymloq]

It seems that the problem is units armed with two-handed weapons

[irishron]

Possible battle_models.modeldb with the wrong entries.
Another reason to play mods.

[Grymloq]

I play so much mods that I got bored and played vanilla again
So there is no solution to this?

[irishron]

The only solution is if you want to play vanilla is learn to fix CA's mess or put up with the bugs' shortcomings.
There is no middleground.

[Grymloq]

Well first I'll try to re-install the game, after finishing the current campaign. I've never had such problems before, so maybe this will solve the situation, if it persists, I'll try to fix it. Thanks irishron