What this CTD fix does is to make Medieval TW playable for modern computers with high-end graphics video card e.g Nvidia.

Also, this CTD fix is only for the retail version of Medieval TW - Gold Edition and shouldn't been used with the Steam version, otherwise one need to verify game cache in Steam.



Below is a post I found on the Total War.org forum and peter de123 is the poster.

Note that all download links in the original post are dead, but I uploaded this CTD Fix on TWC Download just to make sure anyone can play Medieval TW Gold Edition 2.01 (retail) in the future with a modern computer.

Hello,


since I got my Nvidia 8800GTS I could not start MTW anymore, which was especially annoying because I bought the Eras Package. I even tried an old MTW version but it also did not work. After reading in various forums I thought it had something to do with the Nvidia Graphics Driver.


When I updated the driver tonight (version 175.16) I decided to give MTW another try. CTD when starting a campaign, just as I was fearing.


However, for some reason I also installed the Napoleon Total War Mod and tried again... SUDDENLY IT STARTED PERFECTLY.


So it could not be a graphics driver issue... I started toying around, removed and cleanly installed MTW, made a backup and tried to find out what made MTW work when I installed the Mod. I succeded to narrow the problem down to TWO FILES:


button_ipnext.BIF and button_ipprev.BIF in the "Medieval - Total War\campmap\buttons" Folder.


I verified it by using the clean, vanilla installation and only replacing those two files with the ones from the Mod.


NO CTD'S UNTIL NOW ANY MORE !!!


So to all those out there who also have the CTD problem when starting a campaign: Please try it out and report if it works for you.



Since this is my first post I am not allowed to enter a direct Link to a zip file containing the two buttons, so please look here: rapidshare.com / files / 115211547 / MTW_Gold_v2.01_CTD_Fix.zip . html (just remove the empty spaces between the words).



Alternatively you can of course install the NTW1 Mod.
I can confirm that this CTD Fix does work as intended and I have a unfinshed campaign to play in the near future.

Just make sure you extract the archive in the Medieval - Total War\campmap\buttons folder and overwrite those files in bold when prompted.