Help on MTW crashes!!

[PhantomAlpha]

The problem below is driving me nuts!
It is included in the "Known Solutions to Known Questions" thread inside the Apothecary forum but the link is broken, assumedly due to the recent forum change.
Any help will be appreciated!!





Problem:

Game crashes on attempt to exit to the main menu or upon an event report.

or;

How to prevent corrupt savefiles.

Solution:

http://www.totalwar.org/cgi-bin....t=16956

(Look for the reply of yours faithfully. Yes, autosave does cause trouble)

[CherryDanish]

Interested in this as well. I had to replay the same year over and over following 3 huge fights because I go to save the game and it crashes to desktop. On the bright side my 3 fights are posting rather convincing wins as they are now well practised, but I'd like to actually move on.

[CherryDanish]

Did some testing last night by killing tasks in the task manager then running MTW/VI on my Windows XP home SP1a machine (rebooting in some cases to provided a clean start list). I recently had upgraded the windows update manager in anticipation of the SP2 release and I noticed that consistantly killing that process in the task manager before launching MTW/VI offered dramatic increases in stability when finishing a year end cycle and going into the menu system to save the game. The process starts with a WU, but I forget the proper name of the exe file.

This isn't exactly production quality troubleshooting and isn't what I like to see in documentation, but hopefully it helps (sure has helped me out).