Quote Originally Posted by rickinator9 View Post
And less CTDs. But that about the little stacks attacking heavily fortified cities, I have seen that happen in medieval II
There is a special magic technique for getting around the majority of them if you use a multi-core computer (which most people do).

1: Start the game to the title screen (New game, continue, etc.)

2: alt-tab to the desktop.

3: ctrl-alt-del to bring up the task manager.

4: Go to 'processes'

5: Right-click the 'rome.exe' process

6: Go to 'Set Affinity'.

7: Set the affinity to a single core and press OK.

8: Go back to the game and enjoy.



Notes: Since you are only using a single core the game might be 'slightly' slower. Also, for this reason, I suggest using a core other than 0 or 1 (whatever is the top one on your computer). I set mine to about 5 or 6 or 7 depending on my mood. This allows background processes to use the first couple of cores. The price of stability is that you will probably have to run only on Large unit sizes if you used HUGE before. Also, you MUST do this every time you start the game. There is no way (that I know of) to save the set affinities.