NEW Fix for CTD when starting campaign (Nvidia, High End Cards)

We have NTW v7 locally, try https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/local...tid=131&id=617

If you look in the downloads section, the 7.1 patch should be there as well.

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Originally Posted by drone

We have NTW v7 locally, try https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/local...tid=131&id=617

If you look in the downloads section, the 7.1 patch should be there as well.

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Thanks. Where is download section?

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Originally Posted by MoKus

Thanks. Where is download section?

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Top banner of any thread/forum page, should be a set of buttons: News, Forum, Media, Tourneys, Downloads, What's New, Wiki, Arcade.

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Originally Posted by drone

Top banner of any thread/forum page, should be a set of buttons: News, Forum, Media, Tourneys, Downloads, What's New, Wiki, Arcade.

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Thanks.

Apologies for the serious thread necro.... it's down to me having a dead PC and needing to get a replacement, ideally capable of running both MTW and M2TW. I'm trying to get this laptop to do it, it should have the oomph, but it has a lot going against it, too. The oddest thing is that it can play a demo for Rise of Nations (from an old mag freebie DVD), but won't play the full game.

Anyway, that's not the point. The point is I might have an explanation for why the 'button fix' works, and anyone with ReadBIF ought to be able to fix it for themselves. But as I don't have a game machine right now, I have to go from memory.

When I saw this solution, I looked at the files in question, and the one thing that stuck out was that most of the BIFs for the campmap and panel in the original game have colour mode #FFFF - all except the very ones that need to be replaced. Sure enough the NTW replacement buttons ARE also in #FFFF mode.

With ReadBIF you can open up the files and select the colour table. The final (ie bottom right-hand) entry in the colour table sets the colour mode. If this is set to pure white, the colour mode will be #FFFF (for some reason the originals are just a gnat's whisker off pure white, probably produced the day after CA's office party, or something....)

I THINK, if memory serves, that the indexed colours can be edited in ReadBIF - I can't test it now, alas - but failing that, the frames can be exported to .BMP and edited in Photoshop or similar then re-imported. However it's done, just save the modified BIF over the original file and I expect it will work fine, and with the original image instead of the + and - signs from NTW.

never mind the necro !
Good to see you back Mac ....
Will PM you soon re: those Ancient Updates ....cheers

If it's a sticky, it's not really a necro. ~D

That's a good find. I'll have to dig up my ReadBIF and see if this is one of the things they patched on the Steam version...

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I moved my desktop and for reasons only the Furies know MTW would boot, but I got a black screen. So, I made sure I loaded the Direct X 8.1 and Direct3D and Direct Draw and acceleration were operable via my ATI program system check and guess what happened? See below:

The game booted up fine, let me choose a difficulty level, faction and era, and mess around with the Audio and Video options, etc...
[B]But[/B], when I try to actually start playing either a saved game or new game, it blows out to a main MTW screen, the brow fancy one with the loading bar which loads in red, and, get this--THE DISPLAY IS HORIZONTAL!!! And, if I press ESC, it blows back to the main menu screen.

I reinstalled the game along with the DirectX on the CD, and it does the same thing.

I asked for help in the Tech Support Forum and got a few suggestions, but they all revolve around the DirectX 8.1 needed and graphics drivers and whatever. However, remember I had changed nothing in the system, I simply moved the machine to another room.

What in heavens name is going on? Poltergeist???

Help, please, if anyone is still monitoring this forum and has a solution.