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[Incongruous]

Holy cow!

Empire has got to be the biggest dog of a game ever, I keep getting ctd's either during battles or just after as France and Prussia, possibly a few others as well, Britain runs smoothly, telling me something perhaps?

Or is it just a hardware issue, which would suck considering I just bought a beast of a PC...

[Zoring]

It seems once you defeat an enemy stack, they will never move or attack you again, some rebellious guys in my capital got beaten in auto-resolve, and just stood around for the next 4 turns never moving.

[Grumfoss]

As described by other people I have had a problem with my general snuffing it after a battle. I had just won a Heroic victory and when I clicked to go back to the main campaign screen, a tombstone floated down the left side of the screen saying that my general had died a Heroic death.( he didn't even fight in the battle )

This must be a bug.

[Marquis of Roland]

Ummm....maybe I shouldn't have kept loading up the game to figure out what unit or building or whatnot was causing the CTDs, but when I loaded up firefox to get into the org it crashed on memory too....is ETW going to destroy my computer? I'm not a real big technical guy, but I've never had crashes like these before on my comp, and I've had it for 1 1/2 years.

[Konig Prasatko]

Overall I have had a good run with ETW just the odd CTD now and again.
However all this changed last night when I was playing a campaign as Britain and got to the year 1790.

I pressed next turn and it went through its thing - the mandatory request from France and then Russia to give them a prime peice of my real estate in return for a bagette and a nice red wine etc then I get CTD. So I reload and try about a dozen times doing different things on the 1790 turn but alas CTD every time. Has anyone else had this? Is it a known bug?

Sorry if this has been raised before but I couldn't find it!

Thanks

[IRONxMortlock]

Playing as United Provinces. I land an army at the French port closest to Paris. When I try to move this army out of the port (either to attack Paris or anywhere in the Paris territory), the game crashes to desktop. Not fun

UPDATE:
I thought I had this isolated to a general. If I move or try to disband General Gustaaf Van Spaendonck, the game will CTD. I figured I can just leave the good General behind and attack Paris without him. Wrong. I can move the troops around inside France and attack Paris, and once I win the battle and I've taken the city I get the Victory report. BUT, when I click to continue, the game CTDs. Waited a couple of turns and tried again after a reload and the same thing happens. Re-loaded and tried with auto-resolve; same problem.

What a crappy bug!

UPDATE2:
Great, figured I could just leave Paris alone... wrong. Declared war on Morocco and the game crashed when I clicked on the continue button. Talk about way to ruin a long and carefully considered campaign. Makes it difficult for me to want to play if I have to deal with these kinds of game breaking bugs. Would be nice if I could lodge a support ticket somewhere rather than hoping for support from a forum thread that's 32 pages long. :<

[Forward Observer]

I can't believe this would not have been reported before unless it is just a problem that I have been having. I read through about page 4 of the bug thread and got sick fo reading all the weird stuff, so I applogize if this has been mentioned by anybody.


Anyway, here is what I have come across. When I use control/S to do a quick save, I do not get a splash or pop up screen telling me the game is saved. When I use escape and go to the save/load menu the save for the quick save appears to be there, but it is down in the list of saves-not at the top like normal. If I move it to the top by clicking the time/date column and then exit, some time the missing message shows up and sometimes it doesn't

All in all, the save/load menu seems a little gitchy to me. Also, why in the world would they not have a button to delete saves like every other total war game has had. It seems odd to have to exit the game and then hunt down a folder to manually delete game saves.

Cheers

[Dead Guy]

All in all, the save/load menu seems a little gitchy to me. Also, why in the world would they not have a button to delete saves like every other total war game has had. It seems odd to have to exit the game and then hunt down a folder to manually delete game saves.

Cheers

Especially when your save game directory can reach silly sizes after a while (gigabytes if you use the auto-generated name), and also is located in some obscure place (appdata?) and not in the game directory.

[hoom]

I'm shallow for complaining about graphics stuff but a bunch of the weapons are offset to the side:
Land Cannon reloading animations
Bayonettes (at least the socket ones, I think ring are in the right place)
Musket reload animation
Broadside sea Cannon are offset to port (muzzles stick out fairly far on port when loaded, not at all on starboard)


Telling cannon that are firing grapeshot to Halt is hazardous to your nearby units!
I've been playing a few bridge defenses recently & have had a unit of 12pdr foot cannon flanking the bridgehead.
If a cannon was about to shoot just after you click the 'halt' button, it tends to instantly aim off to the side (about 90 degrees) & let fly, often straight into my own army.
I actually think this particular bug existed in MTW? It has a familiar feel to it but can't be Rome engine & I've not played enough with cannon in M2TW to have that familiarity.

& for those at CA reading this thread: Don't be disheartened by all the bug complaints, there is a hell of a lot of stuff in this game & a lot of it is not just working fine but quite exquisite!

[Zatoichi]

I had exactly the same problem as hoom, but with a puckle gun - my poor unit of Rangers were decimated - from 60 down to 24 in a matter of 'frantic click everything and swear a lot' seconds. It pretty much cost me the battle - if only they could have been that effective against the hordes of onrushing Cherokees, they may have survived long enough to be court marshalled and executed.

Got to go on record again and state my enjoyment of this game warts an' all - the patches will just make it better.

[neoiq5719]

i took my ships out and this is what i got, that ugly backwards thing. is this a bug?

[Liberator]

Selecting fleets in campaign map brings a CTD.

Oh I have such a fleet as well. Should be 3 ships, a 2nd, a 3th and a 4th line, some where at the costline of the enezuela-province. Every time I try to select them, I have a CTD. But as long as I ignore them, everything seems to be alright.

[Feanaro]

The place is the Ivory Coast.

The Situation: one Indiaman and several fightin' ships occupy the farthest trading spot to the right. Some pirates are holding the spot slightly above that one. A few more Indiamen arrive, so I figure it's time to kick the pirates out and claim the spot for Britannia! I select all my fightin' ships and go attack the pirates. Park the new Indiaman there and all seems well. I have two spots secured. Except, I don't.

Next turn, the Dutch are parked on that first spot. Right over my Indiaman. I'm getting no income from it. I reload to my quicksave last turn, just after the battle with the pirates. I figure I moved the Indianman by accident and I can just park it back.

The ship can't move. Anywhere. It doesn't even show an interception zone. My last save was several turns ago and I don't want to replay them all. So, I'm out a trade zone until I go to war with the Dutch. Rather ticked.

[Razor1952]

Martinique owned by France, however its port is still marked as Pirates(atwar) and flies Pirates flag.

Most annoying bug is splitting fleets on trade nodes makes the ships left on the node void. (has been reported previously). Thsi bug is very reproducible and should be easy to fix.

[Liberator]

Martinique owned by France, however its port is still marked as Pirates(atwar) and flies Pirates flag.

Thats no bug! There is a pirate fleet inside the port; the french would have to send a land unit into the port. This would throw the pirates out of the port and the pirate fleet would become visible

[hoom]

Which is actually pretty sweet & means that naval raids do exist in game, just abstracted somewhat.

[Vantheman91]

As I wanted a trade agreement with borh ottoman empire and france while playing the dutch. They first declined, they would only agree when offered them both 1000 gold for 10 turn.
But when I looked at my income/loss menu i was making 2000 extra profit in stead of 2000 gold loss every turn... strange

Then I also have the agent moving out of city thing, which is really anoying when you want to ship an agent to another continent and when you unload it several turns later it turns out to be some army.

Also with the cover system something is wrong, I first played on medium level and then somethimes they would hide behind a wall with their backs facing towards me. (as far a back can face)

And with some cannons: when they are reloaded someone is shoving s sponge or something in the cannon, but most of the time it doesn't get in the cannon but in stead my men is "brushing" in the air, looks really stupid.

BTW: never had CTD's am I the only one

[aimlesswanderer]

In my first decent go a playing it I had 2 CTDs playing the tutorial.

The first was when I moved a militia unit from the first fort you have to the one close by that the French used to own. Just carked it. I decided not to move that unit after the restart.

Then I had a CTD when, in Mission 3, turn 1, most of my army went east to attack the British army standing around, and it died, before even getting into the battle. That was enough for the day. 2 CTDs in 5 hours, not very good

Also, I have been having alot of trouble with the forts that are scattered around the place. When one is standing in the middle of the path and the unit has to move through it, I can't tell an army to move beyond the fort. I have to move the unit into the fort and then move it out. This is extremely annoying!

[The historian]

Probably been reported before.
Unusual slowdown of time as computer goes through certain factions happened to me as the dutch for the last 5 turns both the Maratha confederacy and the Mughals take around 2 minutes to pass through while all the other countries take under 10 seconds so what the hell are they doing is the AIthinking it over so much. Also happened to me in a previous game for some 7 turns but then it was the british renounced both games waiting time between turns just exploded from some 20 secs to 3 minutes when it just the brits and 5 min in my dutch game.
Since i dumped both games i don't know if it would have lasted forever strange thing is in both cases the factions affected have virtually nothing to do with me so it's strictly related to AI on AI stuff i only had trade with them.

[Alexanderofmacedon]

I have a bug (and I'm sorry if it's been asked before) where I load the game, click it and the game begins flashing at the first credits. I never get to the screen where I can click on anything, but the game freaks out and flashes white horizontal lines across the screen.

Are there any planned patches? It seems there are quite some bugs in the game...

[A Very Super Market]

Of course there are planned patches. Why wouldn't there be? Every single TW release has had patch after patch after patch.

[Vlad Tzepes]

This is my second campaign, this time as GB. Previously, playing USA, game crashed with the fleet-click-bug. Now, it's 1765 (turn 130?), I have the mighty HMS Victory and a powerful navy and every click on one of my big stack fleets stalls the game for up to one minute.

I bet in a couple of turns it will CTD again. It's such a pity...

[ImperialPower]

I've had some really serious problems with Empire Total War, which I'd rather actually discuss in a new thread because this is completely different from anyone else's problem and it's a lot of text.

Anyway, when I first got the game and got it running properly(after my first problem, but that doesn't bear worth mentioning), I was able to play it fine for about two hours or so on a campaign. Then, inexplicably, I got a really weird crash, of sorts. I didn't get a CTD, because that simply means the game quits to desktop. I got something far worse - the computer restarted, all by itself. When I was playing the game, the screen simply went black and then the computer restarted without me prompting anything. As worrying as this was it seemed to only be a one off thing back then, since afterwards I played the game again with no more errors.

The next day, or the day after(don't remember which one), the same error, which was an automatic restart, happened again, this time when I was playing a sea battle. Again it seemed to just be an occasional thing, as the next day after that I played the game through the entire day with no problems.

But the day after that, I started playing the game again, and I got the restarting bug almost instantly. Tried it again, same thing, restarted after playing for only about two minutes. I got rather concerned about it as after this had happened for the second or third time in a couple of hours, I thought it was something wrong with my computer instead. What made no sense was that it shouldn't have suddenly become more unstable all by itself. How the hell could it do that? It was mostly stable, then one day it was suddenly really unstable? That made no sense, and still makes no sense to me now, as I didn't do anything to change the game in between the stable period and the unstable period. I then became concerned it was because of something on my PC instead, including a virus that my computer had already found and quarantined. So I did a full scan with my anti-virus protection software, and to my horror, the computer did that automatic restart thing again - this time during my scan on my normal desktop, when I wasn't even running the game at that moment. So I started to worry there was something really wrong with my computer.

However, I checked it again later, ran some other games without any problems, and this pretty much proved that it wasn't the computer after all. I tried running Empire again later after I had seemingly fixed the problem simply by keeping my computer off for a while, and it worked, but it then did the dumb restart thing again later - in fact, this time it was even worse as it didn't even restart, it simply turned the monitor off and I had to do a forced shutdown.

A couple of days later I updated the game with the patch from the 10th of March, or whenever the first big patch was. Then I played it again, and to my amazement, it was working fine. I played it for a couple more days without a single crash. I made sure to run the game with Steam in offline mode and with the internet shut off, and either way it was fine now - the patch had seemingly fixed it.

Then when I tried to create a monarchist rebellion as Great Britain, when I took the capital as the rebels, I got a .EXE error that caused the screen to go white. This was a different kind of error caused by one specific thing so it didn't bother me too much, but it still wasn't supposed to do that.

And finally, last night I played the game some more, and unbelievably, I got the same bug again that I was sure was fixed - right in the middle of being just idly looking around in my British Campaign map, the screen went black and the computer restarted. So the same problem I originally had wasn't fixed at all. And it still makes no sense. This is so darn infuriating.

Can someone please help? Because the worst thing is that nobody else on any other forum seems to have had the same error as I have(that is, the computer restarting in the middle of the game).

Sorry that this post is really long, but I really have to explain all of these problems. If it's too long then perhaps I need to start a new thread about it instead.

[ZIM!!]

The AI attacks my cities with non dismountable melee Calvary units? I just hide in my buildings till time runs out or shoot them from windows

[Elmar Bijlsma]

Can someone please help? Because the worst thing is that nobody else on any other forum seems to have had the same error as I have(that is, the computer restarting in the middle of the game).

No mate, you are not the only one. I get the computer re-boot thing too. It happens when interacting with an AI owned fleet that is damaged. My computer reboots either before or right after a naval battle or merely attempting to look at the damaged stack.

It's pretty alarming to have the PC reboot on you.


One question: Do you, or anyone else, suffer from save games being lost after a crash/re-boot? Both auto, quick and named savegames sometimes disappear after restarting the game after a crash. Seems to be only those savegames made during the session that suffered the crash/failure.
It's really adding insult to injury to have a few decades in turns go *poof* after a crash.

[Elmar Bijlsma]

Of course there are planned patches. Why wouldn't there be? Every single TW release has had patch after patch after patch.

You weren't around during the RTW days then? That game didn't get additional patches by politely waiting for it. The community had to get out the pitchforks and torches before that happened.
I'm hopeful though. It was SEGA's acquisition of CA that most likely got us the patches we needed.

[Babblearossa]

And it still makes no sense. This is so darn infuriating.
Can someone please help? Because the worst thing is that nobody else on any other forum seems to have had the same error as I have(that is, the computer restarting in the middle of the game).

I managed to stop the crashes that led to rebooting ( so far at least ) by switching video drivers, for me the 182.08 (nvidia) fix that level of crash. CA has posted that they're working on the crash to desktop problems, still sucks but not hopeless.

[Feanaro]

Rebooting in the middle of the game is probably due to a fatal error. The default setting in XP, and possibly Vista, is to auto-reboot if a fatal error occurs. Personally, I turn this off so I can see what the error is first. If you want to do that, right click My Computer > Properties > Advanced Tab > Startup and Recovery > under System Failure, uncheck "automatically restart." You can also check the error logs. That's for XP, Vista users are on their own.

[Dradem]

first time that I got this one,

playing as The UP, going by ship to the Carolines hold by GB. when trying to unboard my troops they say that or war needs to be declared or that passage should be granted or cancel.
I already have the agrement between me and the English so I don't get it. tried to arrange it again the game comes back again to the same screen, tried again samething happened (don't wont to start a war) so I press cancel and then get in a loop. not even to load the previous save.

I had to restart the game
will check if it is also hapening when I land in England or somwhere else controlled by the Brittish

it does work when I invade the Native americans and retreat to there land

[Elmar Bijlsma]

Cheers Feanaro, that saves me worrying about the restarts.