Game freezes during battles post patch 1.2

Hello all!

I'm new, but not new to the forums or total war. I started with STW and have been reading this forum for the past year.

I'm only posting now, because of an exceedingly frustrating problem: my game freezes during battles almost every time now. It never happened before with vanilla or 1.1. Previously if the game started running slow during a battle, it would back out and reload the game and that would fix the problem. Now, whenever it starts to run a little slow, the game will just freeze and stay frozen forcing me to reboot my computer. It happens with every battle now, and since I installed 1.2 I have yet to see the game reload function work. Maybe they left it out of 1.2? Has anyone else noticed this? What might possibly fix it? I have already turned the graphics all the way down and it still freezes.

I just built my desktop 6 months ago and here are my specs:

AMD 64 3300+ 2.41ghz
1 gig of ram
230 gigs of free space

What gives? Can anyone help me?

System specs look good enough. Prior to 1.2 patching did you run any mods or make any modifications yourself to any of the game files? If so i would suggest doing a complete reinstall of the game and then re-download the patch 1.2 and apply it. Its been reported that any modification will require a complete reinstall to fix the problem/s.

I suppose its possible you got a bad file somewhere in the patch files or somehow it corrupted something in the game files during the application. A complete reinstall like I described above may be the solution. Cant hurt anything to try it anyway. All you lose is wasted time.

No I should have mentioned that. I have not installed any mods. Everything should work just fine. I could reinstall everything, but I'll do that only as a last resort. Is anyone else experiencing this? Mostly I just want to know if the in-battle load function still works in 1.2. Has anyone noticed this? Does the game stop and reload if it is running slowly?

Thanks.

What do you mean with reloading the game? You can't save the game in battles can you?

If you installed the 1.2 patch over 1.1 that's likely the problem.

As arduous as it is, a reinstall without applying the v1.1 patch might be the only solution.

That's a good suggestion and IMO always a good idea to do that. Clear everything and reinstall. Pechorin did you try that already ?

Yeah I did a clean reinstall. Still doesn't work. Started a campaign as France, and did fine for the first few years, but once I had a large seige battle it froze again. The way it should work is that once the game gets a little laggy, it will show the hour glass, do a quick reload to set everything straight, and then resume game play. It worked perfectly in the first two official versions of the game, but in my 1.2 the function doesn't seem to work.

I don't think there is much left to try. I could try to d/l the 1.2 patch from a different source. If anyone else notices this problem, let me know.

It's a pity. I was so looking forward to this patch.

I have the same problem, but with me, it's always been there, not just post 1.2. It's pretty random, but it seems to happen more after long sessions. I always thought it was a heat issue, especially as it got a lot less frequent after I got a new insulation paste.