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

**Knight of the Rose** · 05-22-2009, 18:27

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** · 05-22-2009, 20:22

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** · 05-22-2009, 20:25

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

**dragula42** · 05-22-2009, 20:31

I guess the button thing wasn't the problem

**dragula42** · 05-22-2009, 21:28

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?

**dragula42** · 05-22-2009, 22:06

I've been looking around and I think this may explain everything http://support.amd.com/us/gpudownloa...ev=9.3&ostype=
But I'm not sure what it means, or what I should do, or if I should download one of these things... or which one to download...