What is the normal rate of after battle CTD's?

[fallen851]

After say, every 8th battle, I generally get a CTD. I always wait until the after battle music stops playing to press the button, and never had a recurring CTD that I couldn't get past by playing the battle again.

Still, with 1.2 and all the fixes installed, I was curious as to the rate of CTD's other people experience. Is my experience normal? Could I have possibly increased this rate by modifying the EDU or EDB text?

[XSamatan]

Any modifaction increases the chacnce of recieving CTD's, so be careful with that.

You should restart RTW itself after atleast 2 hours due to the ingame mem-leak.

PLaying with ALX.exe I do recieve a after battle CTD a maximum of 1 in 100 times.

XSamatan

[Weebeast]

I get 1 after-battle ctd every 3 to 4 hours or so. Well maybe that's not necessarily correct. It could be entirely depend on how many batles I fight or how many units. It doesn't seem to happen when playing custom battles though. At least I haven't experienced it.

[fallen851]

Yeah a custom battle should never give an after battle CTD, I'm sure it has to do with how the battles change the campaign map/character traits/ect...

[bobbin]

I'd say after about 20+ battles although sometimes its lower and sometimes higher.

[Atilius]

My experience has been that the frequency is rather low at the beginning of the game. The deeper you get into the game, the higher the frequency. I have a game in the 180s right now, and if I don't save and exit every 4 battles or so, I'm likely to get a post-battle crash.

You can get around this by frequently saving, exiting, and restarting. It's a pain, but it helps you avoid the problem. In that game in the 180s I mentioned earlier, I've had very few crashes.

[Cute Wolf]

In my experience (and lastest no cheat AS campaign), each time we auto_win, add_money, or process_cq.... there was increased CTD rate... but believe me, in that campaign, I only used toggle_fow, and doing everything from stratch..... and I have no CTD even in 132 BC.

Another campaign, I usually used auto_win on naval battles, and CTD usually happened in every 10 or 11 battles.....

[Atraphoenix]

I once passed 6 hours with Alex with full of my mods and minimod pack.
but stopping for a smoking break once for 2 hours became my habit that saved my campaigns but I do not think it is same with my lungs :beam:
so restarting after 2.5 hours or 4 battles rule, saves me at the moment.

P.S. As I make lots of micromanaging in battles it takes huge time to finish one because of the deploying hit and run tactics of nomad armies.

Fraps killed my 2 campaigns, so if you do not write an AAR do not use any screen capturing programs.

[Theages]

It seems memory leak caused CTDs can be reduced by setting the "can use >2GByte" flag in the used exe (RTW, BI or ALX), providing you actually have more than 2GByte RAM and set the "/3GB" switch of XP. In my personal experience a 64Bit OS (XP pro x64, Vista64 and Win7 x64) with flag-altered >2GB support seems more stable since WoW64 (=Windows on Windows 64 = 32 Bit emulation) seems to provide more memory before running out of it and therefore CTDing.

Until sometime ago there was a thread with suggestions on how reduce the number of after battle CTDs (waiting at summary screen etc), which also contained instructions on how to set the >2GB flag.

On Vista x64 (with 8GB RAM) with the ">2GB" flag set, I can't remember getting a CTD even after up to 8 hours playtime (no autocalcs with battles).

[Atraphoenix]

I also say that bovi's advice may work. Do not use miles sound system. I could not notice much difference but since I changed it. I have never gotten a CTD after batle screen.

[fallen851]

I didn't see a difference in quality (regarding Miles sound), so I turned it off, but I still get CTD's at seemingly the same rate. I don't think it is a memory issue, I have 4 gigs of ram.

Again none of them are game-killing, I replay the battle and it is done, but it just gets dull having to replay the battles, especially if I forget to save less than twice a year and have to play more than one battle over again.

Oddly enough, the farther I get into the game, the less CTD's are affecting the game...