Start screen problem and Campaing CTDs

[Fennoskandian]

Hi guys!
First of all, i'd like to thank the EB modding team for making such a great mod.

But let's get to the point. My problem is that when i start the Europa Barbarorium, the Start Screen appears (Europa Barbarorium, modification to Rome: Total War) as normal. But the same screen stays there for about 2-3 minutes, until it continues to show the RTW-Trailer. Everything else seems to be working fast and without any 'speedbumps'.
The next thing is the Campaing start CTD. When the game starts to load the campaing the first time (or every time i play the campaign, i don't know, since i had never made it there), it turns to black for five seconds and returns to desktop. I've only tried Baktria, Aedui and Sab'Yn, but i assume the same thing happens to every faction i try to play the campaing with.

Assistance needed, Fennoskandian out.

Ed1: To be precise, i downloaded the fixes and tried the same campaigns two or three times, so no mocking about that.

[Fennoskandian]

Oh c'mon! Answers please. Not that i'm in a hurry to play the campaign, but removing the game due to these problems have crossed my mind couple o' times.

[Fennoskandian]

Well, if no other help is given, then may i ask 'Save games' for factions? Just to try them out if they run properly.

[Mediolanicus]

https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showp...6&postcount=10

see point 4.

This looks alot like the problem I used to have.

[Fennoskandian]

Problem update!

Lost my nerves with my computer the day before yesterday, and restored the whole C: from my computer = All programs deleted and lost, but the system now runs almost 60% faster. So, i reinstalled RTW Gold, EB and tried to run it. However, the CTD now comes before the main menu.

When i restored the PC and restarted it, the NVidia complained that one of the SLI-cards stopped working, and the other cards started to work Independently or something like that IIRC. Could this be the problem?
I tried to run the EB with the lowest settings, and still it won't 'budge'. Vanilla and BI works fine; Even faster than before.

[Mediolanicus]

Again, same problem as I had. Does it CTD when the music from the main menu is about to begin while loading EB?
Vanilla and BI worked perfect for me too.

I solved it with the link I gave you.

[Fennoskandian]

Again, same problem as I had. Does it CTD when the music from the main menu is about to begin while loading EB?
Vanilla and BI worked perfect for me too.

I solved it with the link I gave you.

Decrypted the drive, ran that weird test and set the page file (max.) to 900 Mb, but still it won't work!
And no, i've heard no music when the CTD occurs.

But, i have a clue. I tried to use the 'run'- command in the 'start' panel for the EB quickstart; It didn't worked. However, when i did the same to the RTW quickstart, it ran the game as normal! So my suspicions now concentrates to the target command line (Single Player quickstart...Advanced...quickstart...target?[It can be something else since my computer's language is finnish]).

The line i have is: "C:\The Creative Assembly\EBTrivialScript\EBTrivialScript.exe" -s ebconfig.xml -runeb -type "Single Player". Should it be somewhat different?

[Fennoskandian]

Sorry to bother you guys with these posts, but does this Validation result tell you anything?

http://www.axifile.com/?9750139

Edit: Process report included

http://www.axifile.com/?6949914

[bovi]

You seem to have a corrupt install. There are changes to files, or some are missing.
However, these may be conscious changes you have made, to remod EB. See below for details.
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Missing file: .\data\packs\patch_1.pak
Changed file: .\data\animations\pack.dat (expected checksum 106c58c594be9f507aedd0cc74207404, got 03ab2316ec76693777aa0f4d9d135c58)
Changed file: .\data\animations\pack.idx (expected checksum 174cfbaa322ec706b6148de6cf6f94f6, got 4447a00d0fe02f41d66d620b51e79b6c)
Changed file: .\data\animations\skeletons.dat (expected checksum 2b6ef7d436ecc5fe59cc30d889f83ed2, got 536d27ba24b5302b8abc37443786455c)
Changed file: .\data\animations\skeletons.idx (expected checksum dd0ca385321ca9ff35c50b52663d6051, got b0464fcff53670139717e68cc284b733)
Changed file: .\data\banners\navy_banner.cas (expected checksum 99bded34a73e1406535bbbf35d5ce667, got d4a7e4b0851785143ecd98f019ace3c9)
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Changed file: .\data\banners\strat_flag.cas (expected checksum 227feae25cf0eca3ef9c69a5041db272, got f2c56e9465891c306e1e4c3db08733f6)
Changed file: .\data\banners\strat_flag.tga.dds (expected checksum b16784cde7acbf10366ab66708104334, got 0992c99b5692c22ece9e47a4f0de7170)
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Changed file: .\data\banners\symbols2.tga.dds (expected checksum 0678aeb3097ce7ca8ad7777829b43491, got ac358350045d02e7a7f5f6403f37bacc)
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Changed file: .\data\banners\symbols4.tga.dds (expected checksum d2b535e8896bcb5dbd5eba2bb3a59812, got ac358350045d02e7a7f5f6403f37bacc)
Changed file: .\data\banners\symbols5.tga.dds (expected checksum 4c9ae8491db6b6d0f6665b4ac3bb872b, got 0992c99b5692c22ece9e47a4f0de7170)
Changed file: .\data\banners\symbols6.tga.dds (expected checksum 5ed5fbb8937fb0d8494f253527e17656, got 0992c99b5692c22ece9e47a4f0de7170)
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Changed file: .\data\banners\symbols8.tga.dds (expected checksum 00eda3ea4012a00cf7e36825b00e1adb, got 0992c99b5692c22ece9e47a4f0de7170)
Changed file: .\data\battlefield\#blood.tga.dds (expected checksum 8e810d5ef333b146ff2b952d917f4b24, got 0992c99b5692c22ece9e47a4f0de7170)
Changed file: .\data\battlefield\battlefield_deployment_marker.cas (expected checksum 88143b8617b70d37010e5a33902e5c15, got 390bae2a5e889a93189c83d6b4259873)
Changed file: .\data\battlefield\cloud_3.tga.dds (expected checksum b8a7d6777d4c36ab95e971906dfd2065, got 0992c99b5692c22ece9e47a4f0de7170)
Changed file: .\data\battlefield\cloud_of_dust.tga.dds (expected checksum 9ea22153a62b93a550551c2d09e16d8e, got 0992c99b5692c22ece9e47a4f0de7170)
Changed file: .\data\battlefield\cloud_sprite.tga.dds (expected checksum 4ced507e3db995bcb84ba6a02a8e4def, got 0992c99b5692c22ece9e47a4f0de7170)
Changed file: .\data\battlefield\cloud_sprite2.tga.dds (expected checksum 97c5e128eb77b5a304c8de3f66ab45c1, got 0992c99b5692c22ece9e47a4f0de7170)
Changed file: .\data\battlefield\deployment_control_point_marker.cas (expected checksum 9aba2b3d7eb1fc6a1dd075182dcc1190, got 9a1d79799aa377739705c93829b2ec91)
Changed file: .\data\battlefield\deployment_marker.tga.dds (expected checksum 5a7aa57fd95f1db2f30fd2e5e7037e46, got 0992c99b5692c22ece9e47a4f0de7170)
Changed file: .\data\battlefield\oil_sprite.tga.dds (expected checksum 4ced507e3db995bcb84ba6a02a8e4def, got 0992c99b5692c22ece9e47a4f0de7170)
Changed file: .\data\battlefield\water.tga.dds (expected checksum 269718908fa711717d9ee513caf33eb4, got ef1cef12781447120bef18d6aff35c4e)
Changed file: .\data\credits.txt (expected checksum 632aad51f3a61c5da34140e4fa28800b, got 66e963df496381fca94f82e3e254213f)
Changed file: .\data\descr_building_battle\dbb_ambient.txt (expected checksum 5c26221a2c4eca5fe1798ed8ee15fd4a, got 19df3dea10ccf96fae000f5fe60c91fc)
Changed file: .\data\descr_building_battle\dbb_ambient_buildings_pavements.txt (expected checksum 259f1e7a78127580579bec1da2a504a0, got a8c6f9ba9e55136adf94ed32e722a259)
Changed file: .\data\descr_building_battle\dbb_andrews_buildings.txt (expected checksum ae89dd01d7380b62c356bb0fdf7f3fe1, got ab322b79c737df822d7caf4dc998234e)
Changed file: .\data\descr_building_battle\dbb_andrews_slot_buildings_pavements.txt (expected checksum d7154268d29ba6e4cc8ac2ac3d1712ac, got ec1a00dd3cb850cb1562173a92d704c8)
Changed file: .\data\descr_building_battle\dbb_animals.txt (expected checksum 477d1fe74b0ddcc80751ad096294d1a0, got f679f386067f41d85d54dd9d53f46e62)
Changed file: .\data\descr_building_battle\dbb_barbarian_buildings.txt (expected checksum f275294f84efb47f6fb12a79f4118e91, got 7e62e0761e376d30b11c2faacff130c9)
Changed file: .\data\descr_building_battle\dbb_bens_buildings.txt (expected checksum 7e85fd635bff8eb000503fc35f3350c9, got 7cf4490654a1831affe82266d5f7637b)
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Changed file: .\data\descr_building_battle\dbb_foliage.txt (expected checksum a0e24861a4032abc48e950546e7ae612, got ff735080cba28bfb7ac71de08c21b56d)
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Changed file: .\data\descr_building_battle\dbb_judes_buildings.txt (expected checksum 69b927c71a5c972c254b736321600b54, got d0439fd37b50bf9818f12d47dc2dea78)
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Changed file: .\data\descr_building_battle\dbb_nicks_eastern_buildings.txt (expected checksum 0e441243edf034371cbe0d0a7cb77558, got 7c40c000c1f7a91f44a0d973e75e49a3)
Changed file: .\data\descr_building_battle\dbb_nicks_egyptian_buildings.txt (expected checksum 77dd7ea30ccd05aa36c21d2ed4764ae7, got e62e28cd0ca035ccae99b9ebbcebb34f)
Changed file: .\data\descr_building_battle\dbb_nicks_greek_buildings.txt (expected checksum 72ffe43cf275fbfd6db2ef1ec3d89f26, got 2666a9772b8d04039ce2ee34df5a3f1f)
Changed file: .\data\descr_building_battle\dbb_nicks_roman_buildings.txt (expected checksum 365afd7fe71f01ced1963f8b7ba6ae39, got e9aad3c42010f074acc8172f6abdcb40)
Changed file: .\data\descr_building_battle\dbb_pauls_buildings.txt (expected checksum bab64ebe06e05da68ac68d78fb85131a, got 53553242d57214aaa5726a09b05fe7bc)
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Using a nocd crack? Your game won't work, use the original executable instead. There is no point in trying the rest of the list until you install a fresh, clean 1.5 RTW.
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Validation tool says that you are missing patch_1.pak (or something similar)? Get this file and extract it in <RTW>/data/packs

You're using a nocd crack, you're missing patch_1.pak, and your vanilla installation is nowhere near a clean one. You need to remedy all of those.

[Fennoskandian]

Problem solved. Bought my friends own RTW, upgraded to 1.5 and installed 1.1-1.2...and works well.

[Subotan]

I'm using a crack for RTW, even though I already have the game (Bought it on the day it came out ), and EB works fine. Is that unusual?

[bovi]

Some people get it to work, I don't know how (nor should it be told here). My own experience with it is that a majority of people who do have problems use a nocd crack. I tried myself on the laptop as I didn't want to have to drag the CD around, but it crashed when I was starting a campaign. Restored the original exe, and it worked fine again. So I now only have the EB files for reference .