I come to all of you bearing gifts: a Fix for the notorious CTD that arises when you click on more than one faction symbols in the Campaign Faction selection screen.
Actual credit goes to unanime5 for testing this fix out months ago.
Additional credit to Tokus*Maximus for some of the artwork included in this fix.
Download:
Megaupload
-For DLV 6.2, and should work with the BB minimod as well.
Installation:
*Unzip and copy the data folder into your DLV_ext folder.
**You must go into your data/world/maps/campaign/imperial_campaign folder and DELETE all of the image files that start with "map_(faction)" These MUST be deleted, or the game will continue to crash.
--(For the Historical campaign, also you need to do is also delete the "map_(faction name)" .tga files in the data/world/maps/campaign/customs/Historical_campaign folder as well. Unfortunately, there is no way of making the maps reflect the different starting positions, unless you take the Historical campaign maps first, change them to just "(faction name)" and putting them into data/menu/symbols/fe_faction_units to overwrite the old image files there. Complicated, I know.)
How it works:
unanime5's thread on how he fixed the problem
Apparently having the 30 different faction maps for the faction selection menu causes some problems. So by switching the layout of the menu, so that the faction unit image is where the maps were, and replacing all the faction unit images with the maps, we maintain the faction maps in their original location, but lose the faction unit images. The game now uses the map_FE file, which is a generic image, and NOT unique to each faction. But it works!!, so who cares?
Sidenote: When I found out I had fixed it and was able to click on multiple faction symbols without it crashing....I went crazy and clicked on the symbols for a good 2 minutes, checking that none of them would cause a CTD. And I might have cheered a little bit haha