Game Crashing to Desktop

[Nickisimo]

Just guessing there are much better troubleshooting guys around here, but, still:

• did you update your sound and video drivers?
• is your refresh rate of monitor set correctly?
• can your monitor take the game's resolution at that refresh rate?
• do you have enough hard drive space?
• restarted your machine recently?
• try install the latest patch and Viking Invasion with the patch if you can...

Hope it helps!

I just put this machine together and put Windows XP on it as of last Thursday...so I have the latest drivers for my SB Live and GeForce 3 Ti200...The monitor is set to refresh at 100Hz, I'm sure the monitor can take the game's resolution(1024x768 or even 800x600 since I've tried that too), I have 120G of HDD space, the machine is restarted at least daily, and I don't have Viking Invasion but I did update it to 1.1.

Like I said, the game doesn't crash when the campaign mode is up and running. Even the tutorials run perfectly. It's only when I either try and load a campaign game(red bar fills up and then the screen flickers and CTD-Crash to Desktop-) or anytime I try to leave a battlefield and go back to the campaign that it CTD's. Now, I can play it and simply auto-calc each battle, but the battles are really the exciting part of the game. The fact is that I shouldn't "have" to adjust anything within Windows just so this game will play, or have to tiptoe around things and only save at certain times(beginning of each year I guess). The fact is that this was not a very well made game in terms of bugs, and from what I understand these CTD bugs have and still exist within all of the Total War Games. This issue needs to be seriously addressed. My respect for Creative Assembly has dropped considerably. They've made a very good series of games that are innovative and enjoyable, but you just can't release broken software like this time and time again.

[mikkele]

I got the same kind of problems when I upgraded my Nvidia drivers to the latest version (v66.93). In my case the CTD would happen either when I loaded a game or when I tried to start a battle. It disappeared when I downgraded to an earlier version (in my case v43.45 but others may work as well).

[Nickisimo]

I got the same kind of problems when I upgraded my Nvidia drivers to the latest version (v66.93). In my case the CTD would happen either when I loaded a game or when I tried to start a battle. It disappeared when I downgraded to an earlier version (in my case v43.45 but others may work as well).

I'm sorry, but there is no way in hell I'm downgrading my video card driver to one from like 2 years ago and suffer the expense of having many other games and programs not work right just to play this. I do appreciate the advice though.