Third age 3.2 crash

[dillon35]

i recently installed the third age mod and i didn't have one problem with it until i tried to install the 3.2 patch. The game runs the campaign fine aswell as the battles but it will all ways crashes when i try to do a seige battle as well as load a custom battle that involves a siege. The 3.0 version never had the problem and could run any map like rivendell,helms deep, excc. Any help would be appreciated thanks.

[StealthFox]

Hmm, never heard this before. What version of M2TW do you have, Steam?

[dillon35]

hi i bought it off of gamers gate, its the gold edition and the thing is i am running this game off of my iMac osx 1.8.2 and i used a wineskin port to get medieval 2 total war plus the kingdoms packs to work on my mac. The m2tw works like its made for my mac no lag or anything and i decided to try to try use a mod and i really wanted to use the third age one. I changed the mod third age to americas campaign as instructed and i start the 3.0 third age version of americas campaign and the game runs perfect. I am able to play any siege or battle with out any problems but when i tried to install the 3.2 patch it just crashes when i do a siege battle only. normal battles work fine as well as the campaign. I'm not sure if anyone has ever had this problem since i am running it off of my mac but just wanted to see if there was some way that maybe since 3.0 works perfectly fine that i just gotta edit some file to make 3.2 patch work. Thanks

[dillon35]

forgot to include this but its weird cause the siege battle will load and it will do that rotating camera thing at the beginning of every battle and it will only show the soldiers and it would look like the soldiers were standing on a invisible floor then crash within 2 seconds after the load, so my guess is that it has to do something with the maps but thats just a guess.

[Pethom]

I use this thread of dillon35 to report about my problem. I guess (s)he doesn't mind.

I decided to continue playing the Gundabad Orcs Campaign and I get a window saying [Medieval 2: Total War has encountered an unspecified error and will now exit.]

It has happened before when it was time for a new turn so I removed and installed TATW again. This time it happens when I'm fighting the dwarfes outside the settlement of Nenuial.

I have Medieval 2 TW Gold (I bought the game in Sweden so I used the UK 1.05 Gold patch when upgrading) and the mods on a Vista with UAC turned off, this daytime control thing turned off just in case, the game and mods are installed in C:\Games\SEGA\... I have turned off autosave in medieval2.preferences.cfg (read somewhere that it could cause problems) and I have no submods installed.

The log is saying something about script error in mods/Third_Age_3/data/export_descr_buildings.txt

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20:27:21.946 [system.rpt] [always] CPU: SSE2
20:27:21.946 [system.rpt] [always] ==== system log start, build date: Feb 25 2008 version development ===
20:27:21.946 [system.io] [always] mounted pack packs/data_0.pack
20:27:21.962 [system.io] [always] mounted pack packs/data_1.pack
20:27:21.962 [system.io] [always] mounted pack packs/data_2.pack
20:27:21.962 [system.io] [always] mounted pack packs/data_3.pack
20:27:21.962 [system.io] [always] mounted pack packs/data_4.pack
20:27:21.962 [system.io] [always] mounted pack packs/localized.pack
20:27:30.858 [script.err] [error] Script Error in mods/Third_Age_3/data/export_descr_buildings.txt, at line 9142, column 2
Building DB error - culture db max settlement level differs from building db max settlement level for faction milan (bdg large_city vs clt huge_city)
20:27:30.858 [script.err] [error] Script Error in mods/Third_Age_3/data/export_descr_buildings.txt, at line 9142, column 2
Building DB error - culture db max settlement level differs from building db max settlement level for faction scotland (bdg large_city vs clt huge_city)
20:27:30.859 [script.err] [error] Script Error in mods/Third_Age_3/data/export_descr_buildings.txt, at line 9142, column 2
Building DB error - culture db max settlement level differs from building db max settlement level for faction moors (bdg large_city vs clt huge_city)
20:27:30.859 [script.err] [error] Script Error in mods/Third_Age_3/data/export_descr_buildings.txt, at line 9142, column 2
Building DB error - culture db max settlement level differs from building db max settlement level for faction turks (bdg large_city vs clt huge_city)
20:27:30.859 [script.err] [error] Script Error in mods/Third_Age_3/data/export_descr_buildings.txt, at line 9142, column 2
Building DB error - culture db max settlement level differs from building db max settlement level for faction egypt (bdg large_city vs clt huge_city)
20:27:30.859 [script.err] [error] Script Error in mods/Third_Age_3/data/export_descr_buildings.txt, at line 9142, column 2
Building DB error - culture db max settlement level differs from building db max settlement level for faction mongols (bdg large_city vs clt huge_city)
20:27:30.859 [script.err] [error] Script Error in mods/Third_Age_3/data/export_descr_buildings.txt, at line 9142, column 2
Building DB error - culture db max settlement level differs from building db max settlement level for faction england (bdg large_city vs clt huge_city)
20:27:30.860 [script.err] [error] Script Error in mods/Third_Age_3/data/export_descr_buildings.txt, at line 9142, column 2
Building DB error - culture db max settlement level differs from building db max settlement level for faction france (bdg large_city vs clt huge_city)
20:27:30.860 [script.err] [error] Script Error in mods/Third_Age_3/data/export_descr_buildings.txt, at line 9142, column 2
Building DB error - culture db max settlement level differs from building db max settlement level for faction hre (bdg large_city vs clt huge_city)
20:27:30.860 [script.err] [error] Script Error in mods/Third_Age_3/data/export_descr_buildings.txt, at line 9142, column 2
Building DB error - culture db max settlement level differs from building db max settlement level for faction portugal (bdg large_city vs clt huge_city)
20:27:30.860 [script.err] [error] Script Error in mods/Third_Age_3/data/export_descr_buildings.txt, at line 9142, column 2
Building DB error - culture db max settlement level differs from building db max settlement level for faction spain (bdg large_city vs clt huge_city)
20:27:30.860 [script.err] [error] Script Error in mods/Third_Age_3/data/export_descr_buildings.txt, at line 9142, column 2
Building DB error - culture db max settlement level differs from building db max settlement level for faction venice (bdg large_city vs clt huge_city)
20:27:30.860 [script.err] [error] Script Error in mods/Third_Age_3/data/export_descr_buildings.txt, at line 9142, column 2
Building DB error - culture db max settlement level differs from building db max settlement level for faction papal_states (bdg large_city vs clt huge_city)
20:27:30.861 [script.err] [error] Script Error in mods/Third_Age_3/data/export_descr_buildings.txt, at line 9142, column 2
Building DB error - culture db max settlement level differs from building db max settlement level for faction byzantium (bdg large_city vs clt huge_city)
20:27:30.861 [script.err] [error] Script Error in mods/Third_Age_3/data/export_descr_buildings.txt, at line 9142, column 2
Building DB error - culture db max settlement level differs from building db max settlement level for faction aztecs (bdg large_city vs clt huge_city)
20:27:30.861 [script.err] [error] Script Error in mods/Third_Age_3/data/export_descr_buildings.txt, at line 9142, column 2
Building DB error - culture db max settlement level differs from building db max settlement level for faction timurids (bdg large_city vs clt huge_city)
20:27:30.861 [script.err] [error] Script Error in mods/Third_Age_3/data/export_descr_buildings.txt, at line 9142, column 2
Building DB error - culture db max settlement level differs from building db max settlement level for faction normans (bdg large_city vs clt huge_city)
20:27:30.861 [script.err] [error] Script Error in mods/Third_Age_3/data/export_descr_buildings.txt, at line 9142, column 2
Building DB error - culture db max settlement level differs from building db max settlement level for faction saxons (bdg large_city vs clt huge_city)
20:27:30.861 [script.err] [error] Script Error in mods/Third_Age_3/data/export_descr_buildings.txt, at line 9142, column 2
Building DB error - culture db max settlement level differs from building db max settlement level for faction russia (bdg large_city vs clt huge_city)
20:27:30.861 [script.err] [error] Script Error in mods/Third_Age_3/data/export_descr_buildings.txt, at line 9142, column 2
Building DB error - culture db max settlement level differs from building db max settlement level for faction poland (bdg large_city vs clt huge_city)
20:27:30.861 [script.err] [error] Script Error in mods/Third_Age_3/data/export_descr_buildings.txt, at line 9142, column 2
Building DB error - culture db max settlement level differs from building db max settlement level for faction denmark (bdg large_city vs clt huge_city)
20:27:30.862 [script.err] [error] Script Error in mods/Third_Age_3/data/export_descr_buildings.txt, at line 9142, column 2
Building DB error - culture db max settlement level differs from building db max settlement level for faction teutonic_order (bdg large_city vs clt huge_city)
20:27:30.862 [script.err] [error] Script Error in mods/Third_Age_3/data/export_descr_buildings.txt, at line 9142, column 2
Building DB error - culture db max settlement level differs from building db max settlement level for faction ireland (bdg large_city vs clt huge_city)
20:27:30.862 [script.err] [error] Script Error in mods/Third_Age_3/data/export_descr_buildings.txt, at line 9142, column 2
Building DB error - culture db max settlement level differs from building db max settlement level for faction norway (bdg large_city vs clt huge_city)
20:27:30.862 [script.err] [error] Script Error in mods/Third_Age_3/data/export_descr_buildings.txt, at line 9142, column 2
Building DB error - culture db max settlement level differs from building db max settlement level for faction hungary (bdg large_city vs clt huge_city)
20:27:30.862 [script.err] [error] Script Error in mods/Third_Age_3/data/export_descr_buildings.txt, at line 9142, column 2
Building DB error - culture db max settlement level differs from building db max settlement level for faction slave (bdg large_city vs clt huge_city)
20:28:09.987 [game.script] [always] Germanicu5 ReallyBadAI v5.6 Running. Please upload log and savegames when reporting battle CTDs for SS.

You can take a look on the save and see if you find anything strange.

[intel]

Bumped^

[isitinyet?]

I have the 3.2 version, playing a campaign as the silvan elves. Mordor are sieging calas galadhon, when I attack them I can deploy my troops and the game still carries on at the start but after about 15 seconds it ctd's why?

[knight of meh]

have you tried deleting the pesky map files isitinyet?

[isitinyet?]

have you tried deleting the pesky map files isitinyet?

yeah just tried it, seemed to last for about a minute and then crashed again. I've tried attacking forts before and everything was fine, maybe it's the custom settlements?

[knight of meh]

the custom settlements do consume considerable resources if your system is old or not very powerful you could get unexplained CTD's

http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?t=270604

you should at this because of med 2 just using one core and not being large address aware this can help if you have the RAM

also if there are reinforcements present there is a known bug with that

http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?t=257970

this can help