game doesnt work when modding

[artavazd]

i have modded the faction characteristics (ex. trader henry, sailor napoleon) when i try to start an imperial campain the game just shuts off on its own and my screen returns to my screensaver. I have vanilla rtw and i was wondering if the game is malfunctioning becasue of the changes i made and if so how do i go back cuz i dont remeber what some of the faciton charactristics were originialy thanks.

[Hans Kloss]

Start the game with RTW shortcut on your desktop with this line in the target "C:\Program Files\Activision\Rome - Total War\RomeTW.exe" -show_err
When your RTW crashes you should see window telling you cause of that

[wipeout140]

I dont think its the e.g. (herny or ceasar). Because i have modded all the of them and still works fine and even better

[artavazd]

i went to "C:\Program Files\Activision\Rome - Total War" but there is no RomeTW.exe -show_err whre is that located?

[wipeout140]

On your desktop icon right click on it and click properties and in the target line add -show_err

[artavazd]

i added (-show_err) in the target box and it stated that this is not valid


it looked like this in the target box: ("C:\Program Files\Activision\Rome - Total War\RomeTW.exe"-show_err)

[Malrubius]

i added (-show_err) in the target box and it stated that this is not valid


it looked like this in the target box: ("C:\Program Files\Activision\Rome - Total War\RomeTW.exe"-show_err)

Should look like this:

"C:\Program Files\Activision\Rome - Total War\RomeTW.exe" -show_err


Put a space before -show_err

[knoddy]

another way is just to go into ur dos prompt and run RTW from their but when u run the execute just add -show_err after it. does the same thing.

[artavazd]

thanks for telling me about the space. I typed it in then hi "apply" but nothing happend. So then i ran the game it crashed again it only crashes when i try to start an imperial campaign

[Malrubius]

Well, that narrows it down a bit.
I usually crash RTW right at the start by having something wrong with
an ancillary file.

I recommend restoring the original file and make sure it won't CTD then.
Once you have a working file, make a single change and see if that works.
You can waste a lot of time on this if you're not careful. It can be something like a letter not capitalized.

Also, if you've got the -show_err working, try hitting Alt-F4 before you start your campaign, when you're on the faction selection menu. That will close RTW and show a dialog with any errors the game found when parsing the files, but that weren't game-crashing.