SPQR crash in battle

**Hesus de bodemloze** · February 10, 2007, 08:28 AM

hi,

i want 2 play some SPQR so i dit every thing whats needed 2 be dun uninstalled rome, reinstalled the game patched it wit patch 1.2, 1.3 and 1.5 downloaded the latest full SPQR game and installed it i even installed all late drivers for my pc. so now i want 2 play the game it all works just fine till i am playing a real time battle when the action starts it freezes up the music keeps looping and the game crashes 2 desktop. i tride several times and its every time the same problem tha strategic map is no problem only the real time battles are. is this a commen problem? any one who can help me?

intel pentium(r) d cpu 2.80 ghz
2.81 ghz
2GB of ram
NVIDIA GeForce 7800GTX

**Hesus de bodemloze** · February 10, 2007, 09:16 AM

the game always crashes when the enemy attacks me in the battle.

**lt1956** · February 10, 2007, 12:26 PM

are you using the 93.71 drivers? I heard those drivers are bugged with alot of games. I suggest using the 91.47 drivers for the 7800 series.

Also did you check the temps on you Vcard?

**Hesus de bodemloze** · February 11, 2007, 04:49 AM

my vcard is actually a xfx gf 7800 gtx 256mb ddr3dualdvi vivopci-e(r) card i can only finde a wdm driver 4.13. i am trying 2 finde the 91.47 driver. what do you mean with the temps on the vcard? sorry i am not that technical with pc :-)

**Hesus de bodemloze** · February 11, 2007, 05:04 AM

oke i found the 91.47 driver and installed it but the battel still crashes 2 desktop

**lt1956** · February 11, 2007, 07:54 AM

Add this to your Icon. if you right click it
go to properties and then look in the target box you will se a complete path line. at the end make sure you add -showerr like below. My link is different than your but all that is important is adding -showerr at the end.

"C:\Program Files\Activision\SPQR - Total War\RomeTW.exe" -showerr

**Hesus de bodemloze** · February 11, 2007, 12:40 PM

thx man this is working fine now :-)

**Hesus de bodemloze** · February 13, 2007, 12:00 PM

still having problems with some crashes. the game works now but still crashes from time 2 time

**hannibeau** · February 14, 2007, 01:25 AM

im not sure if this is your prob, but i experience a crash every 5-6 battle if fought consecutively...i think the proper term/ name for this phenomena is called "memory leakage"???...small fragments of stored memory spill into your ram, stay there, then accumulate, causing cpu to eventually crash to prevent overload (at least that is the way i understand it...i could be way off mark)...i save the game prior to every battle when the battle scroll unfolds...just hit escape, then save your game...look in the "bugs" thread...in fact, do yourself a huge favor and thoroughly explore the "bugs" thread...it will help to pinpoint many common issues found throughout...also is a good place to recieve quick troubleshooting advice from the lord high master lt1956 himself...he has greatly helped me to enjoy this mod...i hoped i could help...hannibeau

**Konig** · February 14, 2007, 06:17 PM

and turn off autosave if you havent already done so

**lt1956** · February 14, 2007, 08:55 PM

Also check to see if you have Background programs running and if you have USB printers they can cause conflicts with some games. RTW engine is buggy IMO. If it doesnt like something with your hardware it tends to crash. Temps are the biggest cause of crashes that I have noticed on Vcards. If nothing else works try playing on large settings instead of Huge.

**Hesus de bodemloze** · February 16, 2007, 09:47 AM

mostley it happens when i right klick my mouse 2 show me what type of men that are in an army the the game crashes. don t think it has some thing 2 do with lare ore huge settings. no usb printers ore any programs running in background only usb device is my mouse.

**Hesus de bodemloze** · February 18, 2007, 07:07 AM

is it possible the spqr mod is a bit unstable with the mtw2 game installed? bewous i don t get it why it crashes so much i played the mode before and never had any probs with it it whas version 6.0_1.5. i keep looking for for the crash probs but it s hard 2 finde them :-)

**Hesus de bodemloze** · February 18, 2007, 07:47 AM

is it normal if you uninstaal rome tw you get a cpu usage of 60%?????? sorry for these stuped questions but i am a noob with every thing whats pc related :-)

**Hesus de bodemloze** · February 18, 2007, 11:22 AM

game is fixt note 2 my self afther using the add ore remove programs tool in the control panel delete the remaining folder on HD. i didn t remove them so there where still some files that made the spqr mod crash.

thx for all the help people