Wondering if Someone could help, been waiting for a long long time

[dragula42]

I bought Medieval Total War in a Total War Eras Pack and haven't been able to play it for 2 years! I used to play it on my brothers laptop and I loved it. strangely enough I can play every total war game even Medieval total war 2, but not this one

I have sent the following e-mail to both Sega AND the Creative Assembly several times, but neither of them care enough to help me.

Complaint medieval total war

I bought Total War Eras and all of the games work except for one, medieval total war. It doesn’t work in Campaign mode or Campaign Tutorial, for the other games to work in campaign mode I had to go to the options menu and switch to software mode, however medieval total war does not have this option. I need to know how to resolve this issue in order to play campaign mode. When clicking on campaign mode it shows the loading screen then exits/freezes/shuts down the program (it did this with the other total war programs before I switched them to software mode as well.) I have recently purchased medieval total war 2 and it works fine so I am sure it has nothing to do with my sound card or graphics card.
---- Aaron F.



The game seems to work in custom battle mode, and that seems to be the full extent to which I may enjoy the game... which is a downer...

I don't have this Nvidia card everyone is talking about...
My graphics card is an ATI Radeon Xpress 1150

I read Martok's post, but my card isn't the one you're talking about, or at least I don't think it is... I'm not very good with computers or the lingo used, (for example, I'm trying to figure out what a ctd is?)

[Knight of the Rose]

Hello Dragula, and welcome to the Guild. Perhaps we will be able to help you. Sadly, once you've bought the game it can be difficult to get game publishers to help you. I could never get Battle Isle 2 to work and never heard from game support. Ah well,

CTD means Crash To Desktop, IE closing the game without warning or error message.

As you can play the battles but not the campaign, I suspect the campaign map. Try

1) Altering the solution of the campaign map in the options before starting a new game - try different sizes, though I belive 800 x 600 is the most propable resolution.
2) Anti-aliasing: Please check the manual of your video driver. Or wait for someone to show you pictures of how you force it to always use 2 x (its usually not that difficult once you've located the button)
3) Exchange of problematic files. Two .bif files sometimes causes problems for video cards. You can replace them with two from a mod - say Napoleonic Total War. The link is in the stickied topic. Sticky means it stays at the top of the forum even though the last post is a year old.

We hope you enjoy your stay,



/KotR

[dragula42]

Thanks I appreciate the help!

Yes CTD is what it seems to be doing then..

1) tried that doesn't seem to work
2) I never got a manual from Dell for anything, so I guess I'll have to wait for that thing you said, because I don't understand any of that stuff lol.
3) I downloaded it and extracted them, then I got lost looking for this "campmap" folder. No matter how many times I download the game I can never get this folder to appear... I've searched my entire computer... hidden files included I can't seem to find such a folder in existence... is this really bad?
So I'm not sure where to insert the files


Sorry to hear about your experience, it really boggles me (customer 'service') I'd think that they'd still want to help so you are encouraged to buy more of their products in the future... Eventually (after the 100th time not getting a response) I even told them I would not be buying anymore games from either sega or the creative assembly because they would be useless without support... they didn't seem to care -.-;
Don't think that will be a problem now that I know there are places like this though.

[dragula42]

Oh nvm I found the folder... had to check a box in search options.. trying it now

[dragula42]

I guess the button thing wasn't the problem

[dragula42]

One thing I've noticed, is that when I mouse over "test display mode" in the options, "stratagey map resolution" blinks...
so I changed it from 800x600 to 1024x768 (these are the only 2 options it gives me....) and niether of them work, could that be the problem? also I was wondering what is "software mode" and why doesn't MTW have it, where as every other total war game does have it?