I'm getting some weird ingame crashes and the bug reporting is weird (game is with the patch)

[removeduser_283648273423]

Can someone help me with this? When I play the game, sometimes it crashes on the startup, sometimes when starting campaigns, sometimes when ending turns and sometimes when entering or exiting battles.

It seems to be some missing files but I've reinstalled this mod several times and the problem persists.


(I can only email the logs because the attachments don't load when I upload them)

[Gigantus]

The size of plain TXT logs will be too large. Compress and then attach - it's described in the forum's ReadMe.

Have you applied the patch? Because it sounds like the issue that got fixed here: "Fixed inconsistency in quotes"

[removeduser_283648273423]

I did actually compress it but it still doesn't attach.

I just reinstalled the game and the mod, seems to be working fine but I think the problem is just waiting to occur again. Will keep in touch.


Thnx for making the time to help! Much appreciated.

[removeduser_283648273423]

It crashed again, I think it has something to do with the missing files below; *this is with the patch*
17:00:33.413 [system.io] [info] exists: missing mods/1648_2/data/loading_screen/loading_screen_70.tga
17:00:33.413 [system.io] [trace] file open,,mods/1648_2/data/loading_screen/loading_screen_25.tga,3145772
17:00:33.413 [system.io] [info] open: found mods/1648_2/data/loading_screen/loading_screen_25.tga (from: D:\Medieval II - Total War)
17:00:33.505 [system.io] [info] exists: found mods/1648_2/data/loading_screen/loading_bar.tga (from: D:\Medieval II - Total War)
17:00:33.505 [system.io] [info] exists: missing mods/1648_2/data/loading_screen/loading_bar.tga.dds
17:00:33.505 [system.io] [info] exists: found mods/1648_2/data/loading_screen/loading_bar.tga (from: D:\Medieval II - Total War)
17:00:33.506 [system.io] [info] exists: missing mods/1648_2/mods/1648_2/data/loading_screen/loading_bar.tga
17:00:33.506 [system.io] [trace] file open,,mods/1648_2/data/loading_screen/loading_bar.tga.dds,,not found
17:00:33.506 [system.io] [warning] open: mods/1648_2/data/loading_screen/loading_bar.tga.dds is missing
17:00:33.506 [system.io] [trace] file open,,mods/1648_2/data/loading_screen/loading_bar.tga,262188
17:00:33.506 [system.io] [info] open: found mods/1648_2/data/loading_screen/loading_bar.tga (from: D:\Medieval II - Total War)
17:00:33.508 [system.io] [info] exists: missing mods/1648_2/data/descr_transition_screen.txt
17:00:33.508 [system.io] [trace] file open,,15A4F5A0,,not found
17:00:33.508 [system.io] [trace] pack open,packs/data_0.pack,data/descr_transition_screen.txt,6005
17:00:33.508 [system.io] [info] open: found data/descr_transition_screen.txt (from: packs/data_0.pack)
17:00:33.508 [system.io] [trace] pack close,,data/descr_transition_screen.txt,,,-6005
17:00:33.509 [system.io] [info] exists: found mods/1648_2/data/loading_screen/loading_logo.tga (from: D:\Medieval II - Total War)
17:00:33.509 [system.io] [info] exists: missing mods/1648_2/data/loading_screen/loading_logo.tga.dds
17:00:33.509 [system.io] [info] exists: found mods/1648_2/data/loading_screen/loading_logo.tga (from: D:\Medieval II - Total War)
17:00:33.509 [system.io] [info] exists: missing mods/1648_2/mods/1648_2/data/loading_screen/loading_logo.tga
17:00:33.509 [system.io] [trace] file open,,mods/1648_2/data/loading_screen/loading_logo.tga.dds,,not found
17:00:33.510 [system.io] [warning] open: mods/1648_2/data/loading_screen/loading_logo.tga.dds is missing
17:00:33.510 [system.io] [trace] file open,,mods/1648_2/data/loading_screen/loading_logo.tga,6702
17:00:33.510 [system.io] [info] open: found mods/1648_2/data/loading_screen/loading_logo.tga (from: D:\Medieval II - Total War)
17:00:34.216 [system.rpt] [error] Uh oh. This isn't good. No idea why, but exiting now. Sorry pal.

[Gigantus]

You can ignore 'missing' in general, it's the game going through the paces of looking for alternative formats (tga.dds) or going bonkers with deviant paths - in the end you find a 'found' line for the file. It's when you don't get a 'found' line that things get interesting

17:00:33.506 [system.io] [info] exists: missing mods/1648_2/mods/1648_2/data/loading_screen/loading_bar.tga
17:00:33.506 [system.io] [trace] file open,,mods/1648_2/data/loading_screen/loading_bar.tga.dds,,not found
17:00:33.506 [system.io] [warning] open: mods/1648_2/data/loading_screen/loading_bar.tga.dds is missing
17:00:33.506 [system.io] [trace] file open,,mods/1648_2/data/loading_screen/loading_bar.tga,262188
17:00:33.506 [system.io] [info] open: found mods/1648_2/data/loading_screen/loading_bar.tga (from: D:\Medieval II - Total War)

Spoiler for old man rambling: 

Seeing that the section you copied processes all the files connected to the loading screen crash I would like you to try the following:

- remove data\text\quotes.txt and string.bin

Now run the game and see if the error persists - you will have default quotes during loading screens.
If that doesn't help, eg crash at the same spots, then rename the data\loading_screens directory

By now everything loading screen related will come from the pack, eg default files will be used. If it crashes now then it won't have anything to do with the loading screen process and the log will hopefully give an indication what is wrong now.

Edit: I am looking through the patched quote files and I might have found some issues in text\quotes.txt:
- the {Author_111} entry exists twice, but {Author_70} is missing
- the {Author_90} entry is missing
- the {Quote_111} entry exists twice, but {Quote_70} is missing
- the {Author_90} entry is missing

It appears only the German quote files were corrected, I have issue a fresh patch, please apply over your present installation, no need for corrections or other stuff.