The Medieval Mod IV v 1.71

[William de Valence]

Has anyone else experienced CTD everytime you enter battle as the Almohads? http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/mecry.gif
So far ive fought 2 battles as the Turks and have not CTD
but I have had no joy with Almohad. I will have to try other Factions.
I would also like to thank WesW for the mod as I have enjoyed playing them.

[Gregoshi]

Welcome aboard William. http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/wave.gif

I've posted your information in the Med Mod IV v 1.71 thread in the Dungeon forum.

In the meantime, could you provide more information about the campaign you are playing and the CTD? Era, difficulty, non-default game settings (huge units) etc. Also, do you CTD in every battle as the Almohad? Exactly when does the CTD happen? During the display with the loading bar? When you get to the battlefield display? After you click on begin? Thanks.

[WesW]

William, are you sure it was the update, 1.71? 1.7 was buggy with the crashes, but I think I caught the problem, and I have not gotten reports of any more since posting the update. The problem was with empty files I used in some circumstances for cavalry units. For the Almohads it would have been the Khwarazmian Cav, though troops from either side of the battle could cause the crash. The Turks didn't have a problem unit, IIRC.

[HorseArcher]

I experienced my first crash to desktop with 1.71 playing as the Almohads. I found that Nubian Spearmean cause the CTD after isolating them playing Custom battles.

[William de Valence]

Thnx Gregoshi, WesW, and Horse Archer.
I have checked the Byzantines and the Turk with no CTD. I have also rechecked The Almohad and there is no CTD with battles during first year of campaign but my campaign to 1093 still has a CTD. The stats are:
Geforce 4 1024*768 battlefield res
Huge units in Tunisia.
My Army: 2 Ghulams, 2 Camels, 2 Desert Archers, 1 Nubian, 1 Peasant. Total 800
The Enemy: 1 Camel, 1 Sahara Horse, 2 Desert Archers. Total 200

Despite a clean intall, and this campaign started as a MedMod 1.71, this battle still suffers
a CTD after first exchange of archery and was also my first battle in that campaign.

Nubian Spearmen? Well after checking this is the only battle I deployed them so perhaps they are the fault. For now I will continue the enjoy the rest of the mod through other factions.
Thnx again.
Andrew

[WesW]

Ok, I found the problem. I had set the Nubian Spearmen to zero armour in 1.7. Apparently this is what causes the crashes, as no unit was set to zero armour originally, and a few seemed to go out of their way to stay in positive numbers, unlike the defense stat.

Thanks for mentioning that the crash happened on the archer volley, as this was what clued me in.

This is very easy for you guys to fix yourselves. Open up the Crusader_build_prod13 text, search for NegroSpearmen (the second hit gets you the unit entry), and change the setting ARMOUR_LEVEL( 0 ) to ARMOUR_LEVEL( 1 ). This will fix the crashes.

[William de Valence]

Thnx WesW. You r the man.
Andrew