CTD when flamethrowers fire during siege.

**Treize** · January 19, 2013, 01:27 PM

The first time the jihad armies besieged Constantinople I had a CTD as well, but on my second try I could play the battle.

But now the Persians besiege the city, I am totally outnumbered so I have to use the flamethrowers to win this thing. But once they fire I get a crash.

I tried this twice, the battle runs nicely even though there are like 3 stacks involved (during the first siege I had MASSIVE lag) and even in 2* the lag is very much acceptable. The problem is that I get a CTD every time I fire my flamethrowers at the hordes pouring through my gate.

Any solution to this? Auto resolve results in a clear defeat and I can't really afford to lose the city.

**Diamat** · January 19, 2013, 01:33 PM

Yeah, I remember last time I played Stainless Steel well over a year ago, I had the same problem. The only solution I found was to reduce the amount of flamethrowers.

**Hoplite of Ilis** · January 19, 2013, 01:39 PM

Ha! I wasn't the only one after all! It has happened to me too in this mod, many times with the flame-throwers. My guess is stainless steel bug. I played the retrofit mod with the Byzantines using flame-throwers in EVERY battle. Not a single CTD. However, retrofit and SS are ages apart. I regret this happening in SS cause it's one of my favourite mods. Let's hope their next installment will have that fixed.

**Navajo Joe** · January 19, 2013, 02:01 PM

I would suggest that you visit sub mods and d/l G5 Real Battle AI and Settlement Tweaks, I have played Byz, no problems

**Treize** · January 19, 2013, 05:02 PM

The thing is when I charged my flamethrowers out of the gate to test them it worked fine roasting the men carrying the ladders. But once they fire from the side on the inside of the gate, BOOM crash...

**Losthief** · January 19, 2013, 07:24 PM

its your computer having trouble rendering all bodies on top of each other....turn your graphics ALL the way down for the battle and then try. There are certain battles i can't play on my labtop but have ease with on my desktop. Arrows also make a huge difference, my labtop can't handle them being pernament, my desktop doesn't mind at all even with a 20 Horse Archer stack firing every arrow they have.

**Treize** · January 20, 2013, 08:44 AM

Yeah I have permanent arrows on and even if I put everything on low a battle with 3 full stacks and a huge settlement is not very PC friendly.

**Losthief** · January 20, 2013, 08:03 PM

Originally Posted by Treize

Yeah I have permanent arrows on and even if I put everything on low a battle with 3 full stacks and a huge settlement is not very PC friendly.

turn off grass manually in the config file, and lower your resolution to 800 x 600 for the battle. Make sure you click read only back on so it saves it.