How do I run in battle?

[drone]

Thread necromancy is not always bad, if something of value is to be added. For example, if someone finds an answer to a game mechanic question that has eluded everyone but been much discussed, I might prefer it added to an older discussion thread about the topic. So when you find the answer to how ship combat works, post it here.

Main Hall traffic can be down sometimes, a lot of people can't run MTW on their newer PCs, so many have moved on to later TW editions. A shame, but understandable.

[Geezer57]

a lot of people can't run MTW on their newer PCs, so many have moved on to later TW editions. A shame, but understandable.

I just finished building two new PCs, economy specs, but with new/old video cards (Radeon x850XT) that are compatible with MTW-VI and mods. I want to make sure I always have at least one machine that runs the game.

The third machine is spec'd with much newer generation hardware, and is not indended to run MTW. It's not quite done yet. But it's still using an AMD graphics card, so I might try the game there just for giggles.

Cheers all!

[Gaiseric]

I am not quite sure of my machine specs. I know that I have Vista 32 bit, but I dont remember what graphics card I have atm. I have been running Ancient:Total War, a mod for MTW, all week without problems. Last night, however, I started running into some ctds when trying to play some of the other factions of ATW. The ctds happened on my first turn as these factions, just from opening buildings and units info. I dont know if this is related to the mod or to my pc. Something must be wrong though, because the ctds continued even when I reinstalled the mod. I posted this in the ATW mod sub-forum. I am waiting for a reply from the creator of the mod. His last post in those forums was more then 9 months ago. As much as I like MTW+Mods, I might put the game on hold for a while, to wait for a reply. I am mainly interested in the ancient era atm, but there is no way I am going to play RTW or a mod for M2TW while I wait. The AI in these later games is broken beyond the repair that any mods can do. Hopefully I can get a reply for ATW soon. In the meantime I will probably move on to some other games/genres that I have. Its been nice talking to you all!!! I hope I will talk to you again soon!!!!

[Gaiseric]

I'm Back!!! I could have moved on to some other games and genres, but I decided to dust off and hook up my old computer to try MTW+Mods. My old computer runs on Windows XP and I have had no CTDs since switching computers/OS!!! Its kind of strange that I had these problems with MTW+Mods on Vista. I can run STW fine, and many other older games will run if I change the settings. Oh well, at least I can run the game now with XP and No CTDs. I am sure MTW+Mods will keep me busy for a long time.

[drone]

Good to hear. I've been able to run MTW on Vista 32-bit without any issues, but it's been looking like there are several different factors to the MTW/new system problems. Your description of the crashes is something I haven't heard before, I wonder if the building/unit icons in Ancient:TW have issues like the next/back buttons in vanilla.

[Gaiseric]

The CTDs were happening in Hellenic:Total War too. Its strange how I didnt get the CTDs with some factions in ATW. HTW and ATW are the only mods that I have tried so far so I dont know if other mods cause any CTDs on Vista 32. It could have been my newer graphics card maybe. Both mods work fine now, although I am mainly playing ATW atm.

One thing that bugs me in ATW, is that my princes dont recover from battle casualties like my king does. Is there a way to have these royal units heal? Which files would need tinkering?

[drone]

One thing that bugs me in ATW, is that my princes dont recover from battle casualties like my king does. Is there a way to have these royal units heal? Which files would need tinkering?

This is by design, vanilla MTW is the same way. The only ways I know of to replenish heir units are to retrain them or merge other units into them.