Every campaign gets CTD-ridden after a couple years

[CorporalJigsore]

I'm having this annoying problem that any campaign I play gets really CTD-ridden after some years. Sometimes after I've blitzed a couple settlements, or sometimes only after I'm well established after like 20 years.

I've already increased the amount of RAM RTW can handle with CFF Explorer and always wait ~30 seconds before entering and leaving battle. These fixes work fine for me for a while but only for a while. So time for another reinstall? :inquisitive:

Here's my Validation results if something should be wrong, but I didn't find anything curious.

You don't have an original installation; There are changes to files, or some are missing.
However, these may be conscious changes you have made, to remod EB. See below for details.
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Changed file: .\data\credits.txt (expected checksum 632aad51f3a61c5da34140e4fa28800b, got b0a7954002857cc32e253a5e08b5c194)
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Changed file: .\data\menu\splash.tga (expected checksum a57cc84af0e6c1300577336f17e0bfd6, got d1329cf835f69e6dff4b4cc0cb08d144)
Changed file: .\data\text\descr_shortcuts.txt (expected checksum 115ef5656adcb6efe6baf704c47a495e, got 364e8787791ce19c35d44fcc126e5c5b)
Changed file: .\eb\data\descr_battle_map_lighting_and_fog_control.txt (expected checksum cb93a428e536cfa294ff85bf1d9ceca1, got 23942befd1eebbd7b829f750745c3081)
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Changed file: .\eb\data\descr_transition_screen.txt (expected checksum 9fc31972d06f70ced6f536dac2378aed, got 1a0fe6c2ef3ffe8d172637d48f61b758)
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[XSamatan]

Are you by chance using a (illegal) no-CD crack? Your Rome-TW.exe is found changed by the validation tool.

Keep multiple saves, so you can revert back easily if a crash is repeatable.
EB pushes the engine of RTW over its designed limits, therefore non-repeatable crashes are more common as in Vanilla. On which occasions do you receive CTD's?
Did you read the tips mentioned about crashes here (https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showthread.php?t=103681)?

XSamatan

[CorporalJigsore]

I crash while entering and leaving battle map, for the beginning of the game the 20-30 second wait helps but after some time it has no effect.

And no, no crack in use. As I said I modified the file with CFF Explorer to be able to use >2GB RAM so that might cause the message. I'm also using an image I've burned from the original DVD because the really old DVD has been scratched to an almost unplayable condition. The beforementioned has never caused my games to be unstable, so I don't think it's the reason for this.

And yeah, I'll try that soundsystem change. Already keeping multiple saves and it isn't really helping. I guess I also could try installing it on an more high-end PC, this semi-gaming laptop might not be powerful enough to run the game stable with only 2GB RAM.

[XSamatan]

2 GB of RAM are enough for EB, check the main menu if the right version (1.2) is shown, if not you have installed 1.2 into a wrong location, remember 1.2 is not save-game compatible and include the fixes for 1.2.

Don't keep playing EB more than 2 hours at one time, restart the game after this amount will help to get over the memory leak of RTW. If you have access to BI, changing to it (using Ferromancers installer in the mini-mod section of this forum), will furthermore increase the stability of the game.

XSamatan