TATW Crashes at battles.

[Darrowmere]

I installed TATW 3.2, MOS 1.62 and the Reunited kingdom for MOS 1.62 submod. But at my first battle the game crashed and i got the 'Medieval 2: Total War encountered an unspecified error and will now exit.' message. So i uninstalled everything and reinstalled everything including the vanilla Med2 upto TATW 3.2 using the guide here: http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showt...pictures-!-%29
The only thing i didn't do in this guide was install 3.1 as it's not needed for 3.2 i believe.

I'm using windows 7 and my game is from discs not steam.
I've done all the windows 7 fixes (daylight savings, account control settings, deleted the virtual store, deleted both 'descr_geography_new' and 'map.rwm'
Searched far and wide but can't seem to fix this without help.

[ElvenKind]

Do not delete both 'descr_geography_new' files, since MOS uses one of them. Just run Cleaner.bat file ( run it as an Administrator).

[Darrowmere]

I haven't reinstalled MOS yet i can't even get TATW 3.2 to run battles. Want to make sure that the mod is working before i reinstall the submod. I replaced the two geography files but battles still not working.

[ElvenKind]

1) When does the crash happen: at the start of the battle, during the battle..? Campaign battle or a Custom battle?

2) You had installed M2TW+ Kingdoms ( at least one campaign is needed) + TATW 3.0 both parts + 3.2 Patch?

[Darrowmere]

i5 2410M
Nvidia 540M
6GB Ram
Win 7 64bit

[Darrowmere]

The crash happens after it's loaded the battle but goes to black before it shows the battlefield. Sieges only seem to crash it in both custom and campaign. Regular battles are fine in both custom and campaign.

I installed MTW2 & kingdoms with Britannia only. Both TATW 3.0 parts and 3.2 patch installed as shown in your thread.

[ElvenKind]

All battles do not crash, just some of them(siege battles)?
Have you tried lowering video settings?

What are your system specs?

[Darrowmere]

i5 2410M
Nvidia 540M
6GB Ram
Win 7 64bit

Only sieges crash. Regular battles work perfectly.

[ElvenKind]

i5 2410M
Nvidia 540M
6GB Ram
Win 7 64bit

Only sieges crash. Regular battles work perfectly.

1) turn autosave off, by changing "auto_save = 1" to "auto_save = 0" in the "medieval2.preference.cfg" file in the Medieval 2 Directory (open cfg file using notepad or similar).

After you make this change, right mouse click on this same "medieval2.preference.cfg" file, go to Properties, and set Attributes to Read-Only. Apply and OK.

2) Go here, and I would recommend doing these steps: 0, 1, 2, 3, 5 = Turn UAC.

3) Reduce City Textures.


Good luck!

[Darrowmere]

Nope none of it seems to be working for me Keep getting the same old error at sieges.

[jsilva89]

Nope none of it seems to be working for me Keep getting the same old error at sieges.

Im having the same issue, and have followed the steps posted above ...

Crashing at E. Osgiliath and Gundabad when trying to fight on those siege maps. Mos 1.60 (1.62 disables campaign music for me for some reason )

Going to see if those two maps will load for me on vanilla 3.2

[Darrowmere]

Okay did a little more testing and got some more results. Customs battle sieges work but only if i select the culture: Custom. If i select Gondor, Men, Evil men and Dwarves then it crashes.

This is so annoying i was so looking forward to playing this game again. Thanks for the help you guys have given.

[Cvlsoldier]

Same thing keeps happening to me, I can do sieges and auto resolve battles in the campaign but I can't fight them, when I try, the screen goes black and get the same warning message

[Cvlsoldier]

Just reinstalled the mod, trying to see if that would help. It didn't. It still crashes just as I'm about to enter a battle. Any advice?

[Ngugi]

Just reinstalled the mod, trying to see if that would help. It didn't. It still crashes just as I'm about to enter a battle. Any advice?

Turn off your computer's clock's Daylight Savings, and if you play TATW you can instead delete the two descr_geography_new-files in the mod's data-folder.

[Biebel666]

I performed all the steps listed above + reinstalled the whole shizzle, but the game still crashes when I want to enter a siege battle. Are there no new possible solutions found? MOS1.6.2 looks great, but this is a bit of a setback :-).

Can't believe I have to reduce video settings since my specs are:

i7 4770 3.40GHz
AMD Radeon HD 7700
8 GB Ram
Win 8 64bit

[Ngugi]

The Medieval 2 engine only make use of a single core, so it may be so non the less

[Biebel666]

The Medieval 2 engine only make use of a single core, so it may be so non the less

I tried to put everything on low in the games video options, but to no avail. A darn shame it is ... Guess I'll have to wait until some genius can explain to me what's going wrong .
For the record, I'm quite sure I know what I am doing with this game/ these MOD's since I got them to work every step of the way until MOS version 1.6.1. (when the siege battle crashes started).

[Biebel666]

Might be interessting to add that in MOS 1.6.1. the siege battle did start, but crashed somewhere in the course of playing. In MOS 1.6.2. the game crashes the moment the battle starts loading...

[Cattlehunter]

Yeah, I have the same problem as well, and have also tried all of the above. Specifically, I've only played as Gondor so far, and every time I get sieged on a map with a custom city it works fine, but whenever it's a generic city it just crashes on loading screen.