MTW:VI crashes

[christian.a]

Hello folks.
Been playing for quite some time, never posted here before.

I have a problem (wasn't allowed at apothecary, so it goes here).
I've been playing a campign for about 60 years (gametime http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/wink.gif ) and my TW have never crashed before, but for some reason the game have started crashing, returning me back to the desktop. IT first started after I had played a fight for 4 hours (5000 men 4500 men), that went really well After the fight I pressed escape to save. And the game crashes. loaded my quicksave and tried autocalc, massive defeat and still crashed when i tried to enter the menu.

Ok, I accepted the fact that I wouldnt be able to save for some years, and replayed the battle, won it but with much more losses. Then came the siege, quicksaved so the big fight was saved, autocalc'd the fight (don't really like sieges) and then the game crashed after the fight, I didn't even reach the map. right after the messages the game crashed.
Tried it again, same result. Faught the battle manually, same result. Called off the assault, and now I it didn't crash... It pissed me off ALOT, but what was I to do...? I still was unable to reach the menu, so I played on for 3 years and quicksaved before the next battle.

And now it fucks up completly manually/automatically/call off, whatever I choose the game crashes after the fight... I don't reach the map, can't do squat...

The Pope did warn me about attacking the Aragonese... http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif


Anyone knows what to do? http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/confused.gif
I presume that it's not much to do?


It's got nothing to do with my computer, mailed the quicksave to a friend and it crashed for him to...

[christian.a]

forgot to mention that the activision help, wasn't helpful.

Activision help

[feet of clay]

That is a bit weird. Are you sure its nothing to do with your PC....If the game is crashing then it would normally be because the game is requesting a resource from the pc that it cannot supply.
If you are running 2000 or Xp is there anything in the event viewer (Control Panel / Administrative Tools)?

Have you installed any new software or changed anything on your PC from the time that MTW was working to the time it was not?

Try typing DXDIAG in the Run box and examine the results - any problems reported?

What version of the game are you running?

What is the spec of your pc?

Hope some of this may help

Feet

[Puzz3D]

Possibly the original quicksave is corrupted and there is a data inconsistency in there. Computations such as dividing by zero or writing to data arrays using addresses that are out of range can crash programs. I think there is also a known bug with the training queue, so you might try removing all units from training queues.

[Kraellin]

yup. sounds an awful lot like the queue bug like puzz3d says. go back to that first year you had trouble. then go to the save BEFORE that one and take EVERYTHING out of the army and building queues. put nothing back in for a year or two till you're safely past that point. then go ahead and play as normal.

it's a bug. we know it. CA knows it. hopefully, it'll get crushed one of these days.

K.

[christian.a]

Sounds worth giving it a try.

If I load older saves everything works properly...

So I'll play the fight for the 3rd time... http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/mecry.gif

Thanks for the help

[christian.a]

Worked perfectly

And so it happened that the figt did not occur this time, instead there broke out a civil war amongst the Aragonese... http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/smokin.gif

Feels a bit unfair to them. but well well...

Thank you again

// CA