Siege Battle CTD's

**mystang89** · January 23, 2015, 07:46 PM

This CTD seems to always occur when I'm besieging someplace and I have a full stack with me. (Also seems to always happen when I'm winning the battle and not when I'm losing :/ ) It says the error normally happens when the graphics are up too high. I'm near certain they aren't. I'm not running the graphics as high as they can go or anything either. Or it will say unidentified error. I've got a:
GeForce GTX 560 Ti,
AMD Phenom II X4 820 Processor,
8GB RAM,
Windows Vista.

My UAC is off, I never turned it on. I'm using M2TW: Kingdoms 1.5.2.0. SS6.4 with bugfix compilations plus addendums. ReallyBadAI. Next Heir Mod. Weaker Heretics. I've made the shortcut to be run as administrator. Advisor is disabled even though if it wasn't disabled it would still not work since that's how SS has it anyway. Autosaving is turned off. I've done clean installs.

Now, I think, (since I love this game so much. It really is everything I want in a strategy game) that I will try to uninstall everything and do a clean install. I do have a question though. When I do this, and as I've said I've done this once already, I end up with 2 different directories. One is C:\Program Files (x86)\SEGA\Medieval II Total War and the other is C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\SteamApps\common\Medieval II Total War. Where do I install these mods to? Do I install them in SEGA or in Steam? The shortcut I use is the one from the steam folder.

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This is another system file I found

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**Deteriorate** · January 25, 2015, 07:18 PM

What does your system.log say? have you read this?
http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showt...aphics-errors)

**mystang89** · January 29, 2015, 01:28 PM

Edit: After reading through it I went ahead and did point 0 which had not been done so we'll see how I get along. UAC is already off as I never have been a fan of it along with auto saves.

**mystang89** · January 29, 2015, 11:48 AM

For some reason it won't let me put my log in here. Sending me to a blank white screen. I haven't read that though so I will do so now.

**ReaperOfTheGrim** · January 30, 2015, 06:27 AM

What in the hell is it talking about "SS 6.3-6.4 issue - exclude 2nd "prepare_for_battle" instance from campaign_script.txt (one preceded by all "set_counter xxx 0" lines)"? I can make absolutely no sense of that statement, but I'm sure that it's the solution to my CTDs.

**mystang89** · January 30, 2015, 11:34 AM

I'm not sure on that either. I saw either you or someone else ask that question earlier and was hoping someone would answer lol.

**mystang89** · January 30, 2015, 09:26 PM

anyone see anything in the log that might specify?

**Strategos Autokrator** · January 30, 2015, 11:11 PM

I had the same problem. I downloaded this settlement tweak and the CTD's stopped.

http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showt...-to-next-level

I also installed the game outside Programfiles. If not you can't turn off UAC.

**Navajo Joe** · January 31, 2015, 10:35 AM

R U using a Steam based version of MTW2 or are you using discs?
If you are using discs, what version is it, those numbers mean nothing to me. For example r u using MTW2 Gold or is it MTW2, plus Kingdoms disc?

**mystang89** · January 31, 2015, 12:07 PM

I'm using Steam version or M2TW: Kingdoms found http://store.steampowered.com/app/4780/?snr=1_5_9__205 .

**Navajo Joe** · January 31, 2015, 01:19 PM

I want you to delete SS from your mods folder, then I want you to do a registry clean, clean up and defrag, to get rid of any left over. I want you to do new d/l for 6.3, 6.4 and then I want you to install 6.3 outside of program files, fire it up see that it works, then install 6.4, then the 6.4 Bugfix. I know this is a real pain in the neck, but your installation is bad, we have to go back to the start.

**mystang89** · January 31, 2015, 01:42 PM

Ok, when you say outside of the program files do you mean just install it in a place like this? C:\Users\Home\Desktop\My Documents . I have no problem doing it the hard way if that will work. I'm doing registry clean and defrag now.

**Navajo Joe** · January 31, 2015, 03:13 PM

Install it your Games Folder in your C Drive

**mystang89** · January 31, 2015, 03:36 PM

Ok, its defragmenting now. Wow, it normally takes me about 10 min to get it defragmented completely but I guess because I've deleted about 7gb of information in the past week its actually going to take 8 hours. I have however always kept the M2TW folder defragged through it all. So....it'll be a bit

Will let you know when its done.

**mystang89** · February 01, 2015, 05:52 PM

All of the Bugfix Compilation and addendums have been added. I ran the clean_old_bugfix after the second one as well. Should I go on to load up ReallyBadAI, see if that works then Next Heir Mod, see if that works and lastly Weaker Heretics or is there something else I need to be thinking about.

**mystang89** · February 01, 2015, 09:25 AM

Ok, so I just installed 6.3 in C:\Games\SS6.3. Everything seemed to run fine and I actually got to see the introductory screen for both the game and England's Grand Campaign. I did have to choose a folder for SS to launch off of and that needed to be in the Steam Medieval 2 directory as that is where the kingdoms.exe had to be recreated from (due to the Steam update some time ago that did away from the Kingdoms.exe.) I'm loading 6.4 right now and will see if it works. I assume when you said to make sure it works that you just wanted me to make sure the game starts and I could play it, but not to worry about trying to play through an entire scenario to see if it crashes?

EDIT: So I loaded 6.4 and it wouldn't launch with the setup.exe because it couldn't find the kingdoms.exe but it did launch with the SS.exe and it played well. LONG turn times. Will load the compilation fixes + addendums now. I do have a question though. It says here http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showt...Y-BUGS-IN-HERE in the installation to extract the contents to the M2TW mod folder but there was no mod folder that was created C:\Games\SS6.3 there. So do I continue to extract it to my games folder since that is where all the SS6.3/6.4 stuff is or do I extract it to my C:\Program Files (x86)\SEGA\Medieval II Total War\mods or C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\SteamApps\common\Medieval II Total War\mods even though there isn't any SS stuff in the latter 2?

**Navajo Joe** · February 01, 2015, 10:48 AM

Hi Mystang,

Absolutely, install to same place as 6.3/6.4, hopefully you don't have any SS in MTW2/Mods folder

**Navajo Joe** · February 02, 2015, 03:14 AM

That sounds good, but check that the sub mods are compatible with each other

**mystang89** · February 02, 2015, 06:33 AM

I got stuck trying to install RBAI since SS isn't in the normal place it would be. I sent the author of the mod a question about it but haven't heard anything as of yet. If you happen to have any thoughts that'd be great too. The problem happens when I go to install it. The instructions say that the Custom Folders Fix option is there for just this purpose so I check that when running the Germanicu5 setup, it asks me what folder I want to download it to and I browse to C:\Games\SS6.3\mods, hit install and it says that "No instance of SS 6.x detected, backup copy of SS files stored in C:\Games\SS6.3\mods\g5\SS. The installation will continue normally." I run RBAI setup and get the error message "Not enough campaigns or core files missing!"

When I open the RBAI mod I see, the setup file along with the readme. I read the readme and it says
"Setup looks for mods in default installation directories, if you use custom folders make sure you change “[works for]” section in relevant text files found in “mods\g5\files\” folder. You can alternatively use a “Custom Folders Fix” option during installation – it’ll make all files appear for every mod.
Stainless Steel users: if you put the mod in custom folder you’ll get a pop-up message on location of backup files that are to be copied to SS main directory. Then use default SS setup file to enable AI."

So I open the g5 folder and inside are 3 other folders, "Files" Manual_Integration" and SS. There's a lot of files in those folders and I have no clue what to do with them.

I'm GUESSING that with the SS folder since it has a data folder in it that I copy that into C:\Games\SS6.3 and replace my data folder with it. Although Manual_Integration also has a data folder but it only has a bunch of text files and scripts files along with descriptions. I looked inside the Files folder and that looks to be where all the actual AI stuff actually is since it has RBAI_America, BC, CoW, Teutonic, Hardcore etc.

All that stuff is way over my head though.

**Navajo Joe** · February 02, 2015, 07:06 AM

Where are you getting stuck?

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