CTD Woes

[TinCow]

I have seen people talk about crash to desktop in their games a few times, but had never experienced it myself until recently. The last two time I have played my current game, when I hit ESC to go to the save menu, it dumps me out.

Is there any fix to this or is my savegame screwed?

[SwordsMaster]

try getting the 2.01 version for VI or 1.01 for MTW.


sometimes it just happens...

[Bhruic]

The only time I experienced CTDs was when I hadn't rebooted my system for quite a while. Once I rebooted, the CTDs disappeared. No idea if that's relevant to your case.

Bh

[Mouzafphaerre]

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Those CTDs made me http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/gc-wall.gif and http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/mecry.gif a lot. Thanks to the patrons both here and at the COM, I think/hope I have finally stabilized my 2.01 this way:

Disable autosave. Like in some other games (Sea Dogs for one) autosave = autodestruct.
Always save at the very beginning of the turn, before even touching anything. To ensure, do a Ctrl + S before hitting ESC just in case.
Avoid overwriting savefiles. It's troublesome as in Cutthroats. Make a new one; there are enough slots and you can later remove the older ones that have become unnecessary.
Apply the abovementioned procedures at the very beginning of a campaign as they won't save existing ones from trouble.
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Hth
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