Hi All,
I apologize in advance if this is the wrong place to post a support question. Moderators, please let me know where I should post this.
Having crash-to-desktop issues in battles with chariots when playing Rome: Total War on my mid-2012 MacBook Pro using OS X El Capitan 10.11.3.
Processor: 2.6 GHz Intel Core i7
Memory: 8 GB 1600 MHz DDR3
Graphics: Intel HD Graphics 4000 1536 MB
In terms of mods, I'm using player1's Bugfixer and Barbarossa82's Vanilla Balance Mod. I have also made some minor tweaks to text files to increase artillery pieces from 2-4 for ballistas and scorpions for all factions and give onagers to all factions that didn't already have them. Sincerely hoping these changes, which are pretty light, aren't the origin of this problem. All the VBM does to chariots is lower their morale via editing text files, and the others don't touch chariots at all.
Crash is common in battles involving chariots of any kind, usually occurring once they engage in combat but sometimes well into the battle or even when enemy starts to rout. Turning graphics settings all the way down has a noticeable impact in reducing the frequency of crashes, but does not totally eliminate them and reduces the quality of the game experience. I've been stuck in chariot battles that continuously crash no matter how much I reload or turn graphics settings to minimum. Crash is reproducible in custom battles with chariots as well.
This is mainly a problem when fighting against Britannia, Egypt, and any other civilization that commonly uses chariots (including the easter egg Amazon Chariots in Themiskyra).
I have posted on the official Total War support thread here and have also found an old 2015 thread with the exact same problem here. No help has come to either of us yet :(
Please let me know if I need to provide crash data, and if so how I can post it without exceeding character limits.
Thanks so much in advance for your help!
Update: Crash only occurs when AI is using chariots - they work just fine when I'm using them.
Uninstalling mods didn't help, and clean install of entire game didn't help. At a loss what to do, other than re-buy the game on Steam in my Bootcamp partition (anyone know if copying save files from Mac to PC works?)
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