Ending turn freezes game (medieval2.exe not responding)

Been playing now EB 2.2b with Pactria and Macedon, with both around turn 50-80 i started getting these crashes where i click End Turn and it just instantly freezes on first AI faction (Carthage). Task Manager shows "medieval 2 stopped responding" at that point. Now when i load the game and try again, same thing happens, but if i take few turns earlier save and play again to that turn, i might pass it, but this is very tedious especially after some combat heavy turns.

Ive done the bug logging thing yet i cant find that log file anywhere, so can't unfortunately post that until i manage to locate it if it exists even.

Before this i played Roman campaign to nearly 300 turns without any such issues, but this was on Win 7, and i have upgraded to Win 10 since, so wondering if that is just coincidence or not.

Windows 10 latest update seems to mess with graphics drivers or medieval2.exe itself, refusing it access to graphics hardware. Ensuring the exe has full permission might help, but the problem seems widespread throughout the gaming world, if the help threads online are anything to go by...

Originally Posted by Holy Crow

Windows 10 latest update seems to mess with graphics drivers or medieval2.exe itself, refusing it access to graphics hardware. Ensuring the exe has full permission might help, but the problem seems widespread throughout the gaming world, if the help threads online are anything to go by...

Yeah sadly ive also heard bad rumours about Win 10 compatibility with older games. I hope its not that since im not going back to Win7 just for MTW2.

Originally Posted by QuintusSertorius

How long did you wait? Actual freezes are rare, the game is either doing something, or it simply crashes.

Carthage has probably turned Numidia to a horde, which can take 10-30 minutes to resolve.

Ill let it run for a while next time to see if it might be that, guess i could also turn cheatmode on and check when i get those crashes if its something like that. Thanks for help.

How long did you wait? Actual freezes are rare, the game is either doing something, or it simply crashes.

Carthage has probably turned Numidia to a horde, which can take 10-30 minutes to resolve.

Went to check what goes on with Carhago, and you were right, it was the horde mechanic kicking in, making me think game froze for good.



So next time ill just know to be patient, go drink cup of tea on balcony or something.

Edit: took about 7 minutes for that turn to pass, but now everything works fine.