I was playing ETW with Darthmod Empire, 40 unit Prussian Campaign. I've done this many, many times.

No hardware changes since then aside from a new SSD that's been working fine for months and a new montior.

I start the battle, and after no more than a minute the screen freezes. I can still hear the sounds, the cursor is moveable. Alt tabbing doesn't work, though Ctrl+Alt+Del Does, and Windows Key+Shift does too.

Though the only way to regain control is to Ctrl+Alt+Del and sign out.

Initially I thought this was because I was sieging a fort, though I had sieged forts before in the campaign, so I tried a field battle with no buildings. Same issue.

I tried reducing all graphics settings to nothing, same issue.


I found a magical way to increase the memory the .exe uses, that didn't help.

Any idea how I can fix this ?

I'm not sure if there are any programs I can download and run alonside ETW to gather data/diagnostics. Is there a crash log file dump somewhere ?

Thanks.