Shogun 2 total war crashes

**Knight of The Table** · June 02, 2013, 06:55 AM

So i just got Shogun 2 total war ,the game is working fine for some time but for some reason after the battle or even in the battle in campaign it crashes ,i play multiplayer campaign with friend and its getting annoying when the fight is almost finished and i want to press end battle boom it just crashes ,sometimes it exits program and says that its not working anymore or sometimes the screen just freezes and i got to minimize it and exit,i read about this ,people had problems like this but i couldn't find a solution.Maybe someone has any ideas?

**john duca** · June 02, 2013, 06:56 AM

do you have windows with 32 bits? do you have any mods installed?

**irishron** · June 02, 2013, 07:02 AM

Post your dxdiag.

**Knight of The Table** · June 02, 2013, 07:08 AM

Yes i have 32 bits and no mods installed ,irishron sorry im not very good at this ,how do i post it?

**irishron** · June 02, 2013, 07:28 AM

With your post count, use "Go Advanced" and the paperclip icon to attach it.

**Knight of The Table** · June 02, 2013, 07:48 AM

DxDiag.txtLike this?DxDiag.txt

**irishron** · June 02, 2013, 08:02 AM

For 32bit, if you own the retail version of Win 7, I strongly suggest you do a fresh install with the 64bit win 7 Install disc.

Otherwise, http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showt...uot-workaround will be needed.
A free copy of Game Booster will work wonders.
You should have at least 20gb of free disc space on C: drive for this game a swapfile. 1.6gb free will only cause problems including crashes.

Also, try playing on dx9. The GT 430 card even with 2gb vram is not cut out for heavy 3D gaming.

**Knight of The Table** · June 02, 2013, 08:40 AM

Okay ill report when i see the results ,could you explain how does the 20gb free space make the game stop crashing?

**Knight of The Table** · June 02, 2013, 08:08 AM

Okay so if i dont own the retail version of win 7 ,the only thing i can do is to try to get atleast 20gb free space in disk c and try playing with dx9? and should i lower my settings? i mean when im playing i got on ultra high and it doesnt seem very laggy

**irishron** · June 02, 2013, 08:37 AM

Yes, I would lower my settings.

**irishron** · June 02, 2013, 09:03 AM

It may not but it will help. The game needs at least that much room to switch out files between scenes, units, textures,, maps, what-have-you.
One player had to go to 37gb to get his stable.
If you don't do MadBoris' workaround, you will run out of ram first.

**Knight of The Table** · June 02, 2013, 09:12 AM

Okay i just remembered that i installed shogun 2 on D disk ,maybe thats the problem? or it doesnt matter what disk is it? cause i just made space for disk c even when the game is on the other disk which has like 50gb free

**irishron** · June 02, 2013, 09:21 AM

My copy of Shogun2 is on D: but the game still uses C: for its swapfile. Blame CA for programming it this way.

**Knight of The Table** · June 02, 2013, 09:25 AM

Did you have a problem like this ? and is that madboris usefull? i dont understand what to do there yet

**irishron** · June 02, 2013, 09:36 AM

I used MadBoris before I bought 64bit and it does help but not a cure all.

Backup the file before editing it. That way if something goes wrong you can restore it. Since I'm about 10 or 11 timezones west of you, you will have to do it.