Reinforcement CTD Fix - The Real Deal!

**Kull** · October 28, 2006, 04:52 PM

This has not been tested extensively enough for us to say 100% that the bug is dead, but right now it looks VERY promising. All of you with v.74 games saved just prior to the Reinforcement CTD bug, please download the fix and test it. Do it RIGHT NOW!!!! And tell us if it worked. And when it does, you can thank Bovi for his genius and therother and BozosLiveHere for never giving up!

Edit: The fix is a single text file that should be unzipped into the /Data subdirectory of your v.74 build. It will overwrite a file already present there.

Edit2: Changed the link (file is now downloaded directly from europabarbarorum.org)

**Kull** · October 28, 2006, 09:32 PM

For those who really want to help, here's a link to a directory containing a bunch of reinforcement CTD save games submitted by other EB players. A few files are "non-CTD" and a couple others have nothing to do with the bug, but the titles will tell which ones should be tested.

Here's the plan:

1) Select and download one of the files.
2) Post the file name you are testing in this thread (so others don't try the same one)
3) After your test, tell us what happened. Be sure to indicate the result of the battle if it wasn't a CTD. Average victories and losses often don't produce CTDs, while Heroic victories are almost a guarantee.

**Martocticvs** · October 30, 2006, 02:01 PM

I just tried this out on the campaign I'm currently playing - and it didn't work.

The situation: I am the Aedui, besieging an Arverni town with a full stack. The town has a full stack garrison, and there are 2 one unit armies next to the town. During the AI turn, one of the small armies attacks, I fight the battle and win. The game crashes. I can post the savegame if you like.

**Turkeys!** · October 30, 2006, 05:21 PM

Tried one of the saved games in the database [the one titled ctd 1] and it came up with heroic victory and had absolutly no problems. This was against 2 rebel armys vs 1 arveni army.

**bovi** · October 31, 2006, 02:58 PM

Martocticvs, please do post your savegame. As I mentioned in the post when working out where the problem lay, I think we may have a problem with battles involving more than two enemy stacks, but they're pretty rare, so I want your game to try out my hypothesis.

**Martocticvs** · October 31, 2006, 03:05 PM

OK here it is. The siege is on the last remaining arverni town.

**k_raso** · October 31, 2006, 03:30 PM

I`ve experienced some CTDs when wiping out factions, when conquering their last city...

So Martocticvs CTD may be caused to that "bug" (not sure if anyone else has experienced CTD when conquering the last settlement of a faction), and not to the reinforcement one.

Just a thought.

Cheers!!!

**bovi** · November 05, 2006, 01:21 PM

Sorry, I'm unable to make your savegame crash. I've tried twice, and it simply works fine, despite that the Arverni faction is destroyed. Please try a fresh install (and apply the reinforcement CTD fix), just in case there is something else different in your current installation. Also, I misread your post originally, I thought there were more than one reinforcement army in the battle but I see now that you only said there was one, the city garrison.