svnguyen
12-02-2002, 06:03
This was asked in the Apothecary but I can't post there yet, blah
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The year, 1423.
The Russian hordes have conquered everything they want, and are now just waiting for the campaign to draw to a close. Everytime I hit year-end BOOM CTD
This is really frustrating
Any ideas why this would start happening?
Edited by HopAlongBunny on Dec. 01 2002,19:41
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Here's my solution I posted on the Total War EzBoard. One person has told me that if also worked for them so try it if you want to finish you campaign that keeps crashing when you hit End Turn
When I first got the crash to desktop problem after hitting End Turn, I contacted Activision Support and they made me go through all these video/sound drivers setting but nothing help. I told them I have all my drivers updated and I even disable my sound card to help debug the problem but nothing I did helped. Then I tried this and it fixed the crash.
This problem only appears after playing the campaign for about 50 or more rounds. Usually crops up when I control about 1/2 of the map. It never crops up during the early stages of a campaign. I've already posted this and sent CA my crashed saved game but I'm pretty sure they won't fix it.
However, think I found the problem. It sounds crazy but bare with me as I've tried this several times with my crash saved game and it has worked every time.
First, never ever save your game before pressing end turn. Also ONLY save the game immediately after ending your turn, but never after you make any moves/production/etc.
Second, to fix the crash to desktop after hitting end turn follow these steps. Go to EVERY province you control and REMOVE all queued up units to be produced. And I stress EVERY province or it won't work. Next after you have removed ALL UNITS from being produced, you MUST SAVE your game. It will not work if you don't save your game first. Then hit End Turn. If it's still crashing to the desktop, go back to each of your provinces and make sure that no units are in the production queues. It's very easy to overlook one province. If you find just one province with units in production, remove the unit from the queue and SAVE the game, then hit End Turn. If you do this it should fix the crash.
From then on, never ever save your game after making any moves epecially after putting units into production. Only save after you hit End Turn. Then do all you moves/production and hit End Turn without saving the whole time. Only save your game immediately after you end your turn.
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The year, 1423.
The Russian hordes have conquered everything they want, and are now just waiting for the campaign to draw to a close. Everytime I hit year-end BOOM CTD
This is really frustrating
Any ideas why this would start happening?
Edited by HopAlongBunny on Dec. 01 2002,19:41
==========================================
Here's my solution I posted on the Total War EzBoard. One person has told me that if also worked for them so try it if you want to finish you campaign that keeps crashing when you hit End Turn
When I first got the crash to desktop problem after hitting End Turn, I contacted Activision Support and they made me go through all these video/sound drivers setting but nothing help. I told them I have all my drivers updated and I even disable my sound card to help debug the problem but nothing I did helped. Then I tried this and it fixed the crash.
This problem only appears after playing the campaign for about 50 or more rounds. Usually crops up when I control about 1/2 of the map. It never crops up during the early stages of a campaign. I've already posted this and sent CA my crashed saved game but I'm pretty sure they won't fix it.
However, think I found the problem. It sounds crazy but bare with me as I've tried this several times with my crash saved game and it has worked every time.
First, never ever save your game before pressing end turn. Also ONLY save the game immediately after ending your turn, but never after you make any moves/production/etc.
Second, to fix the crash to desktop after hitting end turn follow these steps. Go to EVERY province you control and REMOVE all queued up units to be produced. And I stress EVERY province or it won't work. Next after you have removed ALL UNITS from being produced, you MUST SAVE your game. It will not work if you don't save your game first. Then hit End Turn. If it's still crashing to the desktop, go back to each of your provinces and make sure that no units are in the production queues. It's very easy to overlook one province. If you find just one province with units in production, remove the unit from the queue and SAVE the game, then hit End Turn. If you do this it should fix the crash.
From then on, never ever save your game after making any moves epecially after putting units into production. Only save after you hit End Turn. Then do all you moves/production and hit End Turn without saving the whole time. Only save your game immediately after you end your turn.