Timurid Elephants campaign CTD

**alagonios** · November 21, 2006, 05:20 AM

I have being playing my first campaign as HRE. Reached turn 198 (already copleted victory conditions but I'd llike to "discover" America) when a strange problem occured: any engagement with Timurids posessing Elephants (not sure if it's cannon or musketeer ones, because their army has both) the "start battle" button causes a CTD. After that I receive a message that the programme has encountered a fatal error and has to exit.
Please note that the game has run great so far. During the campaign i have fought just about anyone in the West (various units) with no problems.
After the first crash I restarted the battle, went through the deployment, lowered all graphical settings to low and then...CTD again.
I autoresolved the battle (and lost) and continued the campaign. No problems and the game runs smoothly. Then on turn turn 200, again the same Timurid army and ...CTD again.
Please note that in the meantime I engaged Timurids with no elephants and the battle worked out perfectly. I tried custom battles against elephant heavy Timurid armies and encountered no problem whatsoever (other than they're a pain to beat).
I believe it must be a bug, so I was wondering if anyone else had the same problem and, hopefuly, the solution.
Again it is only in campaign battles and only when elephant units are present. It ruins my game as I either have to withdraw or autoresolve whenever I come across these guys. I can only hope they die of old age as it is...
My specs are : P4 at 3GHz, 2G of RAM, Nvidia g7800gs with 256Mb (AGP). Playing the game at 1024x768, shader2.

**terdancamlog** · November 21, 2006, 05:32 AM

i have exactly the same thing happening in Baghdad....elephants go out to wipe out the beseiging mongols, and then wallop CTD...........
its so frustrating as i`ll have to lose the city and disband the elephants as a work around

**alagonios** · November 21, 2006, 05:45 AM

I saw your message,terdancamlog, only after posting mine.
What elephant unit causes that? One or both?
Have you checked custom battles? Can we document that it only happens on campaign?
Thanks for the quick reaction...now if only someone came up with the solution...

**terdancamlog** · November 21, 2006, 06:06 AM

funny you should say that, i saw yours after i posted mine....

i`ve just disbanded archer elephants only, tried to battle, ctd.

reloaded, disbanded both archer and artillery elephants, tried battle, no problems (although i lost most of my troops as mongol foot archers are harder in hand to hand combat than spearmen!!!!!

).

and i`ve only tried it in campaign mode, no others----guess we can`t have heffalumps for a while then!!

and now i`m going to lose baghdad

**mazzel** · November 21, 2006, 12:17 PM

Playing as Venice. Around turn 200 Timurids are besieging my castle at Adana. Battle starts and runs for several seconds. Then a black screen, error sound and no way to return to my desktop....

Tried it 4 times in a row, same results....

This is gonna lose me my citie....

**henry v1** · November 21, 2006, 04:40 PM

i get exacley the same ctd but when im under seige by the timuds in thorne the battle loads up ok but when i go to start the battle i get crash to desktop every time

ive heard in other posts that disabling write combining can solve these problems if it does ill post back

**henry v1** · November 21, 2006, 05:42 PM

doesnt do anything ive just tryed 91.47 nvidia driver and itsstill the same
ffs this is seriously pissing me off now with the bugs in this game sort it out ca ffs

**terdancamlog** · December 06, 2006, 07:34 AM

well i haven`t touched this game for a while now, and after coming back to the forums i can see that the patch to fix the elephant bug is still not out, ho hum.

funnily enough i went and bought Company of Heroes to fill in the time, and after falling in love with it, i now get CTD on this, similar to what other people have reported as a result of .dll problems, so yet another game bug there waiting for patch 1.4!!!!!!!!

Its enough to drive you mad, as essentially ive spent 50 quid on two games i can`t play because they CTD

Does anybody fancy a game of Buckaroo instead.....

**george kings** · December 06, 2006, 07:51 AM

Confirmed. It's a bug. While I played HRE I faced timmurids with elephants and game crushed down. Again and again crush down. Autoresolved and I obviuosly lost.
Gotta be fixed up on the patch.

**terdancamlog** · December 06, 2006, 08:35 AM

one would certainly hope so..........i`m wondering whether the imminent christmas arrivals of WH40k Dcrusade, Fear:ep, LOTR:wking, star Trek etc that i`m expecting will also cause much gnashing of teeth and pulling of hair....!!!

I wonder if this current era of gaming will be forever remembered as "the Time of the Patch"