Insane amount of CTDs

[NoHelmet]

I've installed EB on RTWexe, and everything went as usual. But, after every fourth or fifth battle, sometimes even at the end of a turn, a CTD occurs. Now, i havent played EB for about a year now, and reinstalled it about a week ago. Any possible explanations? I doubt it is a hardware problem, since i'm playing on the same machine as before, and while CTDs did occur, they were rare.

[Klemens]

Are you running Jirisys' mega mod pack? I was suffering severe instability when I had it, a CTD was guaranteed after every battle.

[XSamatan]

Wait until the music ends at the battle result screen before returning to campaign map, this helps. 1.2 fixes all installed?

Check the section here (https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showthread.php?t=103681) about crashes on Ai turns. If the crash is repeatable or you suffer anything else post back here.

XSamatan

[NoHelmet]

I've just installed all the fixes (although previous time i played EB, it was without fixes installed), and i didn't know that saving just before a battle induces CTDs, that should cover a lot of them, but, i need to give it some thorough testing... Battles, a lot of them, to be precise.

EDIT: And, offcourse, thanks for the info!

[XSamatan]

RTW suffers from a memory leak that was improved in Bi (https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showthread.php?95664-New-installer-for-Europa-Barbarorum-with-Barbarian-Invasion) and further in Alex (https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showthread.php?94861-ALEXANDER-EB), if you happen to posses them.

The linked thread covers nearly all technical issues in EB, give it a good read.

XSamatan

[Blxz]

Don't forget to set the single core affinity if you use a multi-core engine. I can't express how much of a difference this makes.

[NoHelmet]

Don't forget to set the single core affinity if you use a multi-core engine. I can't express how much of a difference this makes.
Sorry for being incompetent, but where do you set that? Within the game?

[XSamatan]

First paragraph under "Crash recovery" (https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showthread.php?t=103681)

[Blxz]

Never knew there was a program that did it for me. Still, it is easy enough to just manually alt-tab out every time I start the game.