Crash with Rome in EB1.1

[LotW89]

Played my roman campaign, ended my turn and at cartagho's turn my game crashes (even so without the EB Script activated).
Here is a picture what happens every time in cartagho's turn:
https://img147.imageshack.us/img147/2372/ebcrashyo8.png

And here's the Savegame:
http://uploaded.to/?id=mg5n5z

Hope someone can help me :help:
I don't want to start a new roman campaign =(

[Korlon]

I highly doubt this is a problem with your save. Most likely it's with your game. If I remember correctly, that error message is supposed to corrolate with some sort of bad programming in the software itself.

Has this thing happened before? Have you tried playing the turn again?

I suggest trying an entire reinstallation of your game if nothing works.

[LotW89]

It's my first campaign where this happened, but I tried it many times and the error comes every time...
I don't think reinstalling will help, by the way I would do it only if there isn't another way...

[bovi]

Please run the validation and post the results here, before you start reinstalling the whole thing. Also please say whether you've installed EB under program files.

Anyway, rather than start a new campaign as romans, I would suggest to start a new campaign with another faction (actually, regardless of whether you get this back on track or not). There are many different factions, and some make the game entirely different, such as the nomads or Saba.

[LotW89]

Please run the validation and post the results here, before you start reinstalling the whole thing. Also please say whether you've installed EB under program files.
I installed it to my program files, oh and it is installed with a Rome - Total War Gold Edition. Anyway here's the validation:

http://uploaded.to/?id=4mext1


Anyway, rather than start a new campaign as romans, I would suggest to start a new campaign with another faction (actually, regardless of whether you get this back on track or not). There are many different factions, and some make the game entirely different, such as the nomads or Saba.
Yeah I know, but this is the first time, that i played to that year with the romans^^

[bovi]

Are you running Vista? If so, you really shouldn't have installed to Program Files. You can try to copy the whole RTW directory into somewhere else.

But I'm rooting for this one:


Missing file: .\data\packs\patch_1.pak
Get the file from the EB FTP (the link is in the validation sticky) and put it there.

You also appear to be using a nocd or otherwise altered version of RomeTW.exe, which has proven to cause problems for several others. Please try with the regular exe.

[LotW89]

No i use Win XP.
And yes, I use a nocd^^ it's confortable when i haven't to change cds^^ but i will try it with the original exe and the patch_1.pak
I have to delete map.rwm after this, haven't I?

[Tellos Athenaios]

It's almost certainly not an EB bug; as your message complains about a DLL. Which is something EB is not even allowed to modify...

[bovi]

There is no mention of a DLL in his error message. It says there is a pure virtual function call. It's MS Visual C++, which he appears to have installed, trying to be helpful in diagnosing the problem but not helping much nonetheless.

[Tellos Athenaios]

Far as I can see that is a call to some DLL which his error message complains about.

In order for a DLL to be maintained; the calls you make are virtual and are translated into the 'real' address at run time. (The virtual address is just a pointer to the real one inside the DLL.) So the game calls upon some piece of the library which seems to be missing hence the program terminating with an error message.

[bovi]

Which would be .\data\packs\patch_1.pak, unless I'm mistaken. Let's see where it goes.

(dude, why are we up at this hour anyway?)

[LotW89]

tested it with patch_1.pak and the original exe, but it still crashes...
maybe i have to start a new campaign and see if it works well there

[Tellos Athenaios]

No, the .pak file isn't a DLL. A DLL is a .dll file. :wink:

And you may have better results seeing if the official TW sites 'know' of this problem.

[bovi]

I get the same thing. I tried to take control over the carthies, and then I could successfully make the turn go around. But when I return control to romani, even if it's the next turn, the crash happens again. I haven't tried to do extremely much when in control over them, and I think it's something the AI wants to do that crashes it.

I would suggest to either
* Teleport an army over and smack every carthie army with auto_win
* Take control over carthies, move all characters around and cancel all recruitment/construction, then return control to romani. The carthies' AI may be broken after this move, but it could save your campaign.
* Reload an earlier save (probably the best bet), hoping that the same situation won't happen again.

[LotW89]

How can I get the control of another faction?
The bad thing is, that I can't load a earlier campaign, because it's my only Savegame from SPQR ^^

[bovi]

https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showthread.php?t=102885&highlight=control

Only having one savegame for a campaign is foolish; EB is among the stabler mods but not infallible. I keep at least 4 in a given campaign, with intervals of 5-6 turns between each.

[Theages]

A workaround for that program crash could be to use the Barbarian Invasion executable. I just loaded the spqr.sav using the RomeTW_BI.exe. There was no crash.

[bovi]

Thanks a lot for that tip! I'll be sure to pass it on to people having similar problems :2thumbsup:.