Medieval 2 Total War Issues

**fitzitz** · April 30, 2015, 07:07 AM

Hi everyone. I recently decided that I wanted to get back into Medieval 2: Total War (as well as some mods) as I hadn't played it since my old 2011 computer. I installed it via steam, then loaded it up. Unfortunately, it does one of two things:

1. Makes a loading screen then just stops working.
2. If it's during a campaign, it will autoload the most recent save, irrelevant of any actions I do.

The second one is more common, the first one will happen anytime from the faction selection screen (where you choose the faction you wish to play as in the campaign) to partway into the first turn (about 1 times in 100 I can get to turn 2 before it does one of the stated issues).

Hoping it might just be the launcher/basic game/compatibility issues, I first tried running the launcher in Windows 7 compatibility, as well as XP and Windows 8 (I am running 8.1) but none made a difference. Then I installed a separate launcher, and tried running it from that. Once again, same issues. Finally, I installed a variety of mods, but they also had the same issues. The system log says nothing is wrong. Anyone have any idea what might be causing this?

For reference, this is my build:

Windows 8.1
i7 4770k (at stock clocks)
Hyper Master 212 Evo
Asus Z97-A
A 2TB Seagate Barracuda Hard Drive
2x8 sticks of Corsair Vengeance ram (cas 9 1866mhz)
Tried with a 7870 ghz first (with older and most recent drivers), then (after uninstalling AMD drivers) a GTX 260 (with the latest drivers)
1300w Evga Supernova G2 PSU

**Gigantus** · May 01, 2015, 02:10 AM

That sounds like a messed up installation. I am not very familiar with steam, but I believe you can verify your installation.

Check these articles for the autoload issue:

http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showt...n-Autoload-bug
http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showt...arrow-keys-bug

**fitzitz** · May 01, 2015, 04:06 AM

So it appears to be my wireless keyboard causing the issue. Unfortunately, lowering the response speed to the lowest/middle/etc did nothing, nor did updating the drivers. It still loads the shell, mutes (or if already muted, unmutes) the sound, and if on the campaign map, loads the most recent save.

**Gigantus** · May 01, 2015, 04:14 AM

You could try re-installing your key board drivers via the device manager. Simple 'uninstall' the keyboard in the Device Manager and then restart your computer - that should force it to download the latest driver from the net. I had a similar problem were I nearly smashed my mouse and keyboard to pieces because of delayed responses, but there it was a re-installing of the USB Enhanced Host Controller (both) that did the trick.

**fitzitz** · May 01, 2015, 04:17 AM

Okay, cool, I'll try that then

**fitzitz** · May 01, 2015, 04:29 AM

Nope, it's still doing it :/ I would have thought this long after the release that they would have fixed this issue -_-

**Gigantus** · May 01, 2015, 05:07 AM

One of the articles mentions the NumLock setting. Have you tried that? And verified the game?

More reading material here.

**fitzitz** · May 01, 2015, 05:15 AM

Yeah the numberlock didn't make a difference either way and I verified it on steam, yet it's made no difference. It's really frustrating, it's been fine for every other game than this, it shouldn't take this much effort just to be able to actually play the game