game crashing in battle

**jamminj** · January 25, 2013, 02:37 AM

hi all.. loving the game...
got a small problem thou.. playing as gondor, my computer completly shuts of when fighting a battle in the settlement north of osgilith, (the castle in the river).. cant remember the name..
this doesnt happen everytime, just most times..

ive fought countless battles in east and west osgilith without problems.
i notice when fighting the battle, my arrows dont seem to be hitting the enemy, and the blue bar that shows how many arrows you have left doesnt move down, then boom, ctd that shuts of my pc, and a reboot that states windows has recovered from a problem.. is there a bug in this custom settlement??? thanks for any info or help..

**AnthoniusII** · January 25, 2013, 06:48 AM

I was about to post this bug issue too.
I have:
TATW 3.0, 3.1 AND 3.2 (the newst reuploading 3.2) and i play High Elves campaign. In half of my battles , battles start but when my archers start their voleys the game crash (M2TW encounterd an unspesific problem and will exit).

I had not similar problems wit 3.1...

In the attachments i have the .log file if it helps a bit:

**jamminj** · January 25, 2013, 07:02 AM

hmm, after playing a bit longer, it seems that my issue only happens in the winter months.
i have since fought several battles at CAIR ANDROS (i wrote it down so i wouldnt forget) in summer and no problems occur.
another issue with this settlement thou, a re-inforcing army from the west cannot enter the battle field as the trees block its entry.. this seems a tad bizzarre. i can see them, but thier path is blocked by trees..
is there anyway to remove this custom settlement from the battle filed and fight with a normal battle map??

**AnthoniusII** · January 25, 2013, 07:56 AM

Moria and the surounding mountains seams to cause the problem.
I tried ALL THE SOLUTIONS described here. NOTHING can someone help please?
Here is my save game:
Clean TATW 3.2 , NO MODS. Kingdoms 1.5.
If you load it ...attack to the nearest enemy army and run the battle.

**KurtSuckert** · January 25, 2013, 08:09 AM

Hi,
I got the same problem than Jamminj, palying as Gondor, the game crashes when my army is besieged in Cair Andros (+ reinforcement on my side). It happens only when i try to break the siege with the besieged army : the game crashes when the ennemi steps back from the walls. So, if someone could help. Thanks.

**Damos** · January 25, 2013, 08:31 AM

Hi
I got the smae problem im fighting orcs near Dol Guldur but erverytime i try to enter the battle there it crashes with unspececific eror. the orcs are gettin reinforcements but that couldn't be the problem. i've got third age till patch 3.2 no other mods and tried evry other solution that was said here and i've reinstalled this mod at least 4 times but everytime something is going wrong, what must i do?

**ElvenKind** · January 25, 2013, 08:32 AM

If you all have reinforcements present on either side, there is a fix for this, the latest RBAI version by Germanicu 5.
But, the fix is not save game compatible, you will need to start a new campaign.

**AnthoniusII** · January 25, 2013, 08:40 AM

Strange it may be the reinforcements...
I followed all the ctd fixes as mentioned above...
I retreated and a had a battle with out any problems.
Then i returned to Moria and i attacked to a small army and they had reinforcements just like in the savegame above.
Crash again!

So i download th newst RBAI and install it to TATW and start a new campaign?

**jamminj** · January 25, 2013, 01:15 PM

hi.. @ elvenkind

my game doesnt crash with reinforements, i was just saying that on that perticuler battle map, reinforcements can not even enter the battle, as the route is blocked with trees!!!!

my issue is with game crashing in winter when i fight a battle at cair andros.. is there a way of reverting that 1 custom settlement back to a normal battle map instead of the new custom battle map????

**AnthoniusII** · January 25, 2013, 06:36 PM

Strange...reinforcements do not cause a crash untill i have battles in Moria (i provoke an army and Moria gaurisson sally out to help them).
Also the same problem exists with the Fort inside the misty mountains...
So it is NOT the reinforcements them selves that cause the problem.
It has to do with something relating creating battlefields around/near spesific areas as jamminj mentions too.

I have many battles with enemy having reinforcements in other -but Moria-battlefields and i had no problem.

**StealthFox** · January 25, 2013, 08:13 PM

Reinforcements bug does not mean you cannot play any battles with reinforcements. Just some battles; I don't know what triggers it.

**AnthoniusII** · January 26, 2013, 07:13 AM

Moria, Misty mountains are some trigers that's for sure.

3.1 patch did not had such issues.

**ElvenKind** · January 27, 2013, 03:18 PM

Originally Posted by AnthoniusII

Moria, Misty mountains are some trigers that's for sure.

3.1 patch did not had such issues.

What are your system specs?

**AnthoniusII** · January 30, 2013, 11:30 AM

Originally Posted by ElvenKind

What are your system specs?

Exactly the same i had in TATW 3.0 and 3.1 without ANY problem at all!

**Skabenga** · October 05, 2014, 01:38 PM

I am encountering exactly this issue, any battle in the misty mountains regardless of reinforcements or not and crash!
(M2TW encounterd an unspesific problem and will exit). This only seems to commonly happen in mountainous regions.

Clean install, 3.2, all the right settings/issues have been fine tuned.

I have a pretty solid setup, other battles running 100% no crashes. Stumped...Auto Battles equals a loss in a critical campaign turn, and really not keen to start again.

Anyone have an idea how to fix this issue as per OP?

**ElvenKind** · October 07, 2014, 04:06 PM

There are no reinforcements present on either side of the battle? Tried with lowering your Video in game options?

Tried this Large Address Aware or 2 GB RAM Patch? http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showt...Guide-for-TATW