CTD every battle

[Barman83uk]

I am pretty sure this is something to do with graphics, I have read up as much as I can on the different crashes, but every time I want to do a battle within the campaign it crashes. I have a new steam install of kingdoms fully updated and had a quick game then installed SS6.3 then 6.4. The game is installed as an administrator and I have tweaked the security settings so don't think that is an issue but I don't seem to be able to play 2 battles in a row,

I have the graphics at 1600 x 900 and have lowered some of the settings but every time it crashes I go into the menu and it seems to revert back to high quality with a different resolution. I have played stainless steel for hours and hours in the past and really want to play again, out of all the games this is my favourite era.

Hope somebody can help.

[Barman83uk]

Well I have deleted everything had a good read through as much stuff as I can find on the topic and hopefully this attempt will get it working with a completely clean install

[Barman83uk]

17:20:49.754 [system.rpt] [always] CPU: SSE2
17:20:49.755 [system.rpt] [always] ==== system log start, build date: Feb 25 2008 version development ===
17:20:49.759 [system.io] [always] mounted pack packs/data_0.pack
17:20:49.760 [system.io] [always] mounted pack packs/data_1.pack
17:20:49.761 [system.io] [always] mounted pack packs/data_2.pack
17:20:49.762 [system.io] [always] mounted pack packs/data_3.pack
17:20:49.763 [system.io] [always] mounted pack packs/data_4.pack
17:20:49.763 [system.io] [always] mounted pack packs/localized.pack
17:25:13.094 [system.rpt] [error] Medieval 2: Total War encountered an unspecified error and will now exit.

I give up complete new install today played a battle without it crashing then thinking everything was going to work CTD in the campaign, cant be arsed trying anymore

[Hannibal420]

Yeah, I don't really mean to be a whiney ***** but this mod is seriously flawed. Everyone absolutely loves everything about it, but they can't seem to be able to develop a mod that doesn't cause CTD issues for seemingly everyone. I feel like, as soon as I've figured out one freakish glitch I run into another one just as fast. I get a CTD every time a battle starts too...

[Barman83uk]

I know what you mean I wanted to play it on my new laptop but in the end I gave up, but realised I have it on my old desktop and it works perfectly, its just annoying that its probably something really silly that I am missing to get it working.

[Losthief]

turn trace on in the ss config file and repost your log after a crash.

its not the mod, its either a missing file/unit (like hospitallar knight) or a bad install, i have played well over 2000 battles w/o one single crash.

p.s. custom battles don't work with ss, just in case you were trying those out.

to turn trace on delete the * in front of the line for it in the config file.

And your setting revert cause the mediveal prefences config file (in the med 2 folder) and/or your ss config file (in your ss6.3 folder) has settings different in it and probably is write protected, so either turn that off or open in notepad and manually change and save it.

[Barman83uk]

Thanks, will give a go at weekend got loads on at uni at the minute but cheers for getting back to me