SS 6.4 - Siege battle, unspecified error - Please help :)

**Roman Heritage** · April 10, 2015, 06:06 AM

As title says, I'm in need of some help. I'm playing an ERE campaign on SS 6.4. It has gone through 138 turns without any major bug except another one, similarly met in a siege battle. I read somewhere it had to do with AI reinforcements, so I downloaded G5's fix and - since it didn't work - made sure no AI reinforcements were on the map. The battle went smooth, 50 turns or so passed.

And now here I am

I'm running SS 6.4 clean install - meaning the version you get from the download links, no bugfix or stuff - plus two submods, Viva la Rebellion and Stone Forts. Don't even know if these are really turned on, since I've never had yet the chance to see them act on the game. My PC runs Windows 8.1, SS and M2 are installed in C:Games and UAC is disabled.

This time the bug occurs at the very beginning of the siege, as soon as I try to take a screencap - I'm writing an AAR so... - or launch the first trebuchet volley the game freezes and the usual Unknown Error message pops up. The first time it happened it told me "Fatal Graphics Error" so I made sure to lower my graphics a bit, and use another save game - meaning I went back to the previous turn, pressed end turn, and tried to play the siege again - yet it didn't work.

I know there's plenty of threads with similar problems around here, yet being a true PC noob I'd need to be literally teached whatever I'm supposed to do.

For example: what's a log? Where do I find it? How do I upload it on here, and when should I look for it?

Would sharing here the savegame help?

What details do you need to know?

If it's something tied to the lack of bugfixes, would installing the bugfix compilation make my campaign unplayable? This is a really important matter, since an AAR is based on it and it would basically ruin it all.

Waiting for responses and help, please be patient with me

Teach me to fish and I'll never bother you again...perhaps.

**Roman Heritage** · April 10, 2015, 11:03 AM

Ok, I followed the sticky, this is the closest thing to a log I saw. I found it in my SS 6.4 folder; Medieval II's Logs folder is empty.

Spoiler Alert, click show to read:

However, I've seen lots of other logs around here and mine seems too short. Please remember I have no

idea of what a log is and that I'm trying not to sound irritant or stuff

**Treaper** · April 10, 2015, 11:27 AM

Maybe you'll find your problem & solution here, although it is a old thread
http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showt...hics-errors%29

**Roman Heritage** · April 10, 2015, 11:42 AM

Thank for the attention, Treaper

You do know this is vital for the continuing of the AAR, right?

Checking through the thread, I didn't seem to gain much help about my case. Might check better later.

Any "log expert" who could tell me what's wrong with this siege?

*Edit*

Spoiler Alert, click show to read:

Met once again the same crash, same battle. Perhaps, the same log. I followed some of the advices in the thread suggested (make sure I disabled UAC, set advice to none and run as admin) yet nothing changed. Even lowered my graphics to medium, when my pc normally handles them at high/very high. Don't know what to do, I'm trying to solve it on my own yet I don't seem to be successful at it

**Roman Heritage** · April 11, 2015, 05:19 AM

Ok, ignore whatever I posted above. I apologize for multiposting but I think that's the only way to update the situation and let people notice it.

I eventually figured out why my log was so short, and fixed it into the SS.cfg file.

To sum things up, I'm playing SS 6.4. clean, Viva la Rebellion and Small Villages added, Byzantine Early Era, Turn 139, on a Windows 8.1., I3, UAC disabled, run as admin ticked on. I'm regularly experiencing this crash in this siege, in the first five minutes, usually. Often when I try to take screens, but even if I don't, it crashes anyway.

Here's my real log, hope it is enough. I think i copy-pasted the last hundred of lines or so.

Spoiler Alert, click show to read:

If anybody knows what's the problem, or has any solution, well, he's really welcome. This is making my campaign unplayable. If is something really related to tgas, how do I fix it? I need them because this game is the basis for my AAR.

I'm actually sacrificing much of my little spare time to solve it, I'd rather play and get a little amusement from the game. Please, help this sucker

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