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    Member Member Sygrod's Avatar
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    Default Anyone else having as many CTDs as I am?

    In battle after fighting for at least 15-20 minutes, I regularly get CTDs, mostly as the battle is just about won.

    Am I the only one plagued with this infuriating problem????

    I went over the fixes again and installed (re-installed, I don't know) the sprite fix. Stupid me, I thought that was the problem. Nope. CTD next battle.

    THIS is becoming tiresome. How the H*LL can I find out what EXACTLY the problem is?



    I've gone over just about everything. The only thing I can't do is buy a new machine.
    Last edited by Sygrod; 05-24-2008 at 17:08.

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    Default Re: Anyone else having as many CTDs as I am?

    Far as I know mid-battle CTD's are exceedingly rare. I would suggest that you review your specs, and of course whatever background processes you have running when playing EB. See if there's *anything* you can kill off - assuming you don't multitask and perform complex admin tasks whilst playing EB, there really should be very little needed to run. And everything else is at that point just a waste of resources (cpu time, ram, etc.). Especially 'tray' applications/'helpers'/'quick launchers' silently consume quite a bit of RAM. Especially under Win Vista as it has a habit of caching programs ... which is great when doing lots of low-demand work (coding), as it'll speed up transition from program x to program y; but it's horrible if you don't have much RAM to spare and are doing resource-intensive jobs (working with photoshop/playing EB...).

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    Lately, the closest I ever got to mid-battle ctd's in EB was when a Pontic king was slain (together with his heir apparent and another high ranking family) by my Seleukid forces: instead of CTD'ing the game simply got 'stuck' in the action (you know when the game zooms in so you can't control your battle anymore but have to wait until you get back, always right when you wanted to orded x or y?). Well I did have a nice background to look at; but eventually if forced a CTD by CTRL+ALT+DEL.

    Anyways from time to time I just hit ALT+F4 as a quicker means of exiting the game... will fight another day...
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    Default Re: Anyone else having as many CTDs as I am?

    Quote Originally Posted by Sygrod
    In battle after fighting for at least 15-20 minutes, I regularly get CTDs, mostly as the battle is just about won.

    Am I the only one plagued with this infuriating problem????

    I went over the fixes again and installed (re-installed, I don't know) the sprite fix. Stupid me, I thought that was the problem. Nope. CTD next battle.

    THIS is becoming tiresome. How the H*LL can I find out what EXACTLY the problem is?



    I've gone over just about everything. The only thing I can't do is buy a new machine.
    Use minimum settings. Don't let anything else run in the background with EB.

    I used to have constant CTD's too, because my PC couldn't really handle the game. Now I haven't had a CTD since EB0.8.

    This is a thread that helped me much :

    http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?t=100384

    Good luck!
    Last edited by Mediolanicus; 05-24-2008 at 18:02.
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