Help! CTD when editting campaign map

Hi all,

am following the guidelines from this site and trying to mod my campaign map. Not working at all and after much trial and error i have narrowed it down to the step where you have to delete the map.rwm file from rtw/data/world/maps/base.

even if i do this without touching anything else at all - ie/straight from a patched to 1.2 vanilla install, the game crashes to desktop. Am i right in thinking what it should be doing is creating a new map.rwm file each time it loads up a campaign? If i don't delete the map.rwm file and i alter the campaign map then it just uses the old map regions, even if i've saved over it cos its reading it from the map.rwm file i guess.

If i go back into the maps/base folder after the ctd the game has generated a new map.rwm file - it just must be flawed somehow?

Any ideas? The ctd occurs right as the campaign map should materialise - after all the loading screens. I get no error messages, even with -show_err running.

Arghhhhhhhhh

It might be caused by a *lot* of things.

I had this problem because :

I had too much errors in the desc_strat file (characters or cities being misplaced on the map)
Your name list is screwed up
You're playing with a roman faction though the senate target provinces aren't here (syracuse, dalmatia and liguria -don't remember the name of the settlements of these 2)
There's no latium/roma province/settlement.

ah but am not doing any of those things - am saying even if i do NOTHING from vanilla other than delete the map.rmw file (which it should regenerate each time you load up a campaign) it doesn't work....

hey..do You have to have a Rome/Latium province?

and does the Senate have to exsist-

-if I'm not a Roman Faction?

please any help would be appreaciated...


mikavius I feel for you man...we've got the same problem...


-Cheers-
Malchus...

I don't think the senat has to be there, but I'm fairly sure there must be a roma settlement.

There has to be a Latium province with a Rome settlement. About the Senate, maybe it has to be there at the start, but can be killed off via script (as METW does).

@Meneldil: the three first mission provinces have to be there, too? That´s good to know.

They have if you attempt to make the roman factions playable.