End of battle CTD's

**mosedavid** · 04-17-2009, 11:28

EB1.2 installed as follows:

RTW (empires edition? - one with STW, MTW, RTW including all expansions inc Alex - I just installed the RTW\BI bit of it) installed in root of hard drive: D\RTW
RTW folder coppied to D:\EB
EB1.1 + 1.2 upgrade installed using the instalation path: D:\EB
Minimod installed into D:\EB or is it D:\EB\EB (cant remember as I'm not at my PC but I installed it to the path that the Minimod asked for).

On many battles, usually on the second or third after loading the game the game CTD when i click on end battle. Now I've read to leave clicking on this for 1-2 minutes so thats what I do but I'm still getting the instability and its driving me nuts! Fighting 3-4000 guy's just to have to do it again is upsetting.

BTW, I had EB, the same instalation as above on my old PC with the same CTD's, and since then the PC has been totally rebuit so I'm guessing it isnt a computer issue (everything else works fine) but a game one.

BTW, after upgrading the PC (9550 phenom and good graphics card) the game looks totally beautiful on the 21" widescreen!

**HFox** · 04-17-2009, 15:58

Having the same issue in the last two weeks and not seen this before, always at the end of a battle be it siege or not.

EB alex install with all the fixes in place .....I'm wondering if its related to a windows/graphic driver update issue....but then I may be grasping at straws

**Tellos Athenaios** · 04-17-2009, 20:30

Patience is the key. For some reason RTW really needs to cool down for a couple of seconds after a battle before you go back to the campaign if it is stability you want. Virtually all CTD's seem to be cured by simply waiting 15 seconds or so.

**bovi** · 04-17-2009, 21:32

Still, it doesn't help in his case. How much RAM do you have? I gather it happens a lot less frequently on rigs with at least 2 GB memory.

**mosedavid** · 04-18-2009, 17:19

I have 4gb of 1066mhz memory. I think that should be enough, runnning XP! I read somewhere on this forum to download a program and alter RTW.exe to accept more than 2gb of memory. Think this is the way to go. I just did a seach for the thread but couldnt find it again.

Ah............ found the link. https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showp...3&postcount=11. Seems its not a problem with amount of memory as so much as RTW.exe not being a very good memory manager.