My Consolidated CTD Post

[snakerensky]

I have been playing around with EB continually from version 1.0 to the newer version 1.1 and wouldn't go back to the original Rome: Total War after tasting the banquet this offers in comparison. However, I am getting increasingly frustrated with the CTD's I seem to be experiencing after having advanced a campaign for a few weeks or months and am now unable to complete any.

I am currently running Europa Barbarorum v1.1 with Barbarian Invasion v1.6 and all the permanent fixes from v1.1 as well as the forced diplomacy mod but prior to this I was running EB1.1 with RTW 1.5and had the same crashes with the same files.

I'll start with the three that CTD as soon as the loading bar has completed, I can't tell you what year I have managed to get to in these as the save game is unloadable. One thing I can add is that these three games ran fine until I logged for the day and then tried to reload the save at a later date.

Casse
http://uploaded.to/?id=eyhwcp

Baktria
http://uploaded.to/?id=cn78q8

Lusotannan
http://uploaded.to/?id=9z88g3

The next two save games load up but crash on the computer players turn whether or not I have the script running and whether or not I have any buildings or recruitment queued.

My most recent campaign as Pontos has reached only as far as 240bc and appears to crash on the Ptolemaioi turn.

http://uploaded.to/?id=bnum7y

And the last save game that has currently reached 237bc as Ptolemaioi, appears to crash during the Casse or Sweboz turn (but I could be wrong about that).

http://uploaded.to/?id=5bbjou

If anyone can help with these that would be fantastic otherwise I might be forced to retire Europa Barbarorum until version II for Kingdoms is released which would make me sad indeed as I would miss my EB fix.

[bovi]

For the first three there is nothing we can do. You can minimize the impact of corrupt savegames by keeping saves from every couple of turns (3-16, depending on your willingness to replay turns).

As for the crashes during AI turn, there are a number of suggestions in the frequent issues, try those.

[seriousbusiness]

Make sure to keep lots of saves. I personally go with a save for every turn and then only keep one for every odd year (~8 turns). Occasionally I still get an unbeatable CTD and that's always sad, but it happens much less now. Always get the fixes, too, they cut my battle crashing by probably a third, maybe more.