Fellowship Campaign Ithilien Battle Crash

**Stoj** · July 18, 2013, 08:52 PM

So basically this battle crashes any time the mumakil are about to run amok. I tested ordering my archers not to fire on the mumakil and the battle progressed without crash until I was defeated. Problem is, you really need to get the mumakil running amok to have a chance of winning the battle. Further retries confirmed it was only the mumakil that triggered the crash. The mumakil models become very bloody, and then during the next volley (which I assume would kill one and start them running amok) the game crashes.

Here's my log if it helps.system.log.txt

I'm running the Steam version on Windows 7. I am running as administrator. I have also tried the kill advice zip file, as another thread about crashes in ithilien recommended it. Neither of these measures have fixed the problem.

Any help is greatly appreciated!

**Stoj** · July 19, 2013, 08:51 AM

I've tried a custom battle playing as Harad, using Mumakil to see if it was their death animation that was the problem. My mumakil in the custom battle died and ran amok with no crash, so it appears to be something specific to the Ithilien battle. I also thought it might have to do with too many fire arrows at once, but it also crashed with just regular arrows firing.

**ElvenKind** · July 19, 2013, 08:53 AM

Welcome to TWC Forums!

Well, you could try to do these things:

1. Delete map.rwm file in your ...steam/ ../M2TW/ mods/ Folder where Third Age is installed / data/ world/ maps / base folder.

2. Delete 27 *strings.bin files located in your ...steam/ ../M2TW/ mods/ Folder where Third Age is installed / data/ text folder.

Test does it crash now..

ALSO! Mumakil death animation is wrong and can cause crashes for some users, you are unfortunately one of them..

**Stoj** · July 19, 2013, 09:12 AM

Yeah it crashed again. Does that mean I just need to wait for a fix or something?

**ElvenKind** · July 19, 2013, 11:09 AM

As I recall, the fix for this hasn't been released yet..

Perhaps I'm mistaken. Maybe someone else has more info regarding this. You could try to use M2TW cheat for this battle. auto_win attacker/ defender. http://www.gamespot.com/medieval-ii-...dition=desktop

**Stoj** · July 19, 2013, 11:20 AM

Correct me if I'm wrong, but does that cheat require the autoresolve? Autoresolve is not allowed in the Fellowship campaign.

**ElvenKind** · July 19, 2013, 02:40 PM

Yeah, you are right..

I have played F. campaign once a long time ago and won ( TATW 3.1 version) and, all battles I played were ok.. perhapse Fellowship campaign in TATW 3.2 is not playable.

EDIT: upload your savegame just before that battle so we can test it, upload it to SpeedyShare or some other site.

**Stoj** · July 21, 2013, 11:05 AM

Code:

http://speedy.sh/4bXFf/Fellowship.sav

**ElvenKind** · July 21, 2013, 01:32 PM

Hmm.. Your savegame crashes for me too... It usually happens when Mumakils approach the trees.

Some members also reported this crash so you are not alone ...

One member spawned Mumakils ( using cheat code) and won that battle, otherwise, he had a crash all the time before that. Perhapse you want to ask him what he did ( send him a personnal message ) :

http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showt...1#post12677886