crash to desk

**damage_13** · 03-13-2005, 20:48

hi there... been playing this game for ages (+ expansion) without probs.

suddenly.. i'm getting crashes to desktop while either in or loadin a save game to the campaign screen, with the 'placed counter' thud the last thing i hear.

saw this posted in another forum, but there were no responses.

am patched up both in games terms and graphic drivers wise, although i don't think i've played this game since i installed DX9.0c

can anyone help, cos this is really peeing me off and all i wanna do is play

toby

**Age** · 03-13-2005, 21:09

Did you save it after you exited out of the campaign.That is what I always do is save it even though it autosave it best to do this.I learned from my Trek games to do this as well when in a campaign.I am not sure as to why you are crashing it may be your memory or vid card.How do you load the game useing shortcut or progams/totalwar and what version do you have just MTW or MTWVI in the MTWViking Invasion you don't need to be patch up.I have DX9.0C and I have no problems.
Did you do a fresh intall of the game lately or when you unistalled it did you delete the game folder.I hope some of this helps as I am not as knowledged in this game as I am in my Trek games.What else have you done or haven't?

**BAD** · 03-13-2005, 22:48

I had the exact same problem yesterday. I worked out that it was when I updated my drivers. Even after re-installing the game I crashed back to the desktop when loading a game. So I just re-installed my old drivers with the CD given with the PC. Problem was solved.

Hope that helps.

**Deus Ex** · 03-14-2005, 01:22

That seems to be a 'common' problem. When I first started playing, I would CRASH at every transition to combat mode, or back to campaign mode.

Rolling back my Nvidia drivers solved the problem. There was a thread about it around here somewhere...

Try it - there is a good chance it will fix your problem.