In-Game Battle CTD???

[Valion]

Just as the titles say! i thought CTD's only happen after battles? in my case i was defending a river crossing and the averni army of about 3k+ were all pined-down by my army blocking the entrance and Boom CTD! Can anyone tell me why thats happening? its the first time i experience a in-game battle CTD.

Thanks in Advance!

[Captain Jazzy]

This has happened to me twice both times when I had been on EB for a good few hours and both of them involved over 5000 troops, one of them was also a bridge battle. Hopefully someone can give you some more usefull info...

[Valion]

Thanks for replying! its good to know someone else has experience this problem, but mine wasn't a bridge battle it was a river battle. I'm worried it might happen again in a different setting since i like Playing Massive battles involving 5k+. I actually did the battle twice to see if it was only a one time thing but nope it also crashed the second time So yes i'm hopping someone can help me :)

[Captain Jazzy]

Well I have played alot of EB(Cant have too much of a good thing ;) ) and I have only seen two so I dont think its a major problem, Just out of interest where did your happen mine were in Africa and Spain....

[Valion]

Well I have played alot of EB(Cant have too much of a good thing ;) ) and I have only seen two so I dont think its a major problem, Just out of interest where did your happen mine were in Africa and Spain....

Gaul! I was planning to destroy an Averni Full stack of around 3500 with my 1100 :D Would have succeeded if the game didnt crash. But i decided to withdraw from Gaul and met a another Averni Army of 2300 so i destroyed that one instead Lol. And yes it doesnt seem to be a problem in the long run i was just concerned since it was my Biggest battle yet since i came back to playing EB.

[Megas Methuselah]

The only crashes I ever got from EB 1.2 are the crashes where I've been playing for 3+ straight hours and haven't given computer a break. You have to restart RTW every couple hours because of that stupid vanilla bug, depending on how strong your comp is.

[Chris_]

The river/bridge battle crash is most likely a pathfinding issue with the AI trying to get so many men over the river. Moments before it happened to me I could hear the AI units acknowledging hundreds of move orders.

[Atraphoenix]

also deactivate the auto save may help a bit.

[Marcus Darkstar]

ya I occassionally get CTD's during battles too. Really annoying i usually restart the game prior to save before battle and just auto-resolve. Ocassionally happens not always,

also deactivate the auto save may help a bit.

how does that help? its an ingame battle.

[Valion]

The only crashes I ever got from EB 1.2 are the crashes where I've been playing for 3+ straight hours and haven't given computer a break. You have to restart RTW every couple hours because of that stupid vanilla bug, depending on how strong your comp is.

Yeah i've noticed that too! My computer is a Dual Core 2.70GHz/2.0GB Ram and 1.0GB Video Card so i dont think it's my computers fault.

The river/bridge battle crash is most likely a pathfinding issue with the AI trying to get so many men over the river. Moments before it happened to me I could hear the AI units acknowledging hundreds of move orders.

That makes sense! the AI was shouting non-stop and it took them a good 10min to finally decide to cross the river and engage my army for about 3min then CTD lol.

[Atraphoenix]

how does that help? its an ingame battle.

Go to C:\Program Files\Activision\Rome - Total War\EB\preferences folder.
Open preferences.txt via any text editor.
CTRL+F
write "AUTOSAVE"
make it false.

I had 3 river battles in a row in 3rd CTD.
AS attacked me 3 times in 3rd CTD after battle always.
I disabled it. now row I have not gotten any row battles CTD because after each row battle at the end of the turn during AI turns . AUTOSAVE saves your game before each battle. if it is more than 2 you have a huge potential to get a CTD after victory or defeat screen.

[XSamatan]

Change in the file Atraphoenix mentioned also EVENT_CUTSCENES to FALSE
And I would give the advice to use notepad++ instead of the Windows-integrated editor.

Restarting EB after some hours can help too, but I doubt it is a repeatable crash in your case.

XSamatan

[Ludens]

Moving to the bug subforum.

[Chris_]

Moving to the bug subforum.

You moved it to Unofficial Mods

[Marcus Darkstar]

Go to C:\Program Files\Activision\Rome - Total War\EB\preferences folder.
Open preferences.txt via any text editor.
CTRL+F
write "AUTOSAVE"
make it false.

I had 3 river battles in a row in 3rd CTD.
AS attacked me 3 times in 3rd CTD after battle always.
I disabled it. now row I have not gotten any row battles CTD because after each row battle at the end of the turn during AI turns . AUTOSAVE saves your game before each battle. if it is more than 2 you have a huge potential to get a CTD after victory or defeat screen.

ya i just didnt understand why Auto-save was an issue doesnt it just save before and after end turn sequences (like the auto-save saves a file right after you press end turn and after when the AI finishes their moves and a new turn is up). Didnt really think it had anything to do with battles beforei just manually save my battles.

[XSamatan]

Don't save right in front of battles, this is reported to cause trouble. Move anything and then attack.

XSamatan