An 'Interesting' Technical Problem

[Zild]

I've been hooked on M:TW for a good three years now (and before that, S:TW), but I had to stop playing when my laptop finally died.

Now I've got myself a shiny new desktop, and it didn't take me too long before I'd installed M:TW and VI (including the 2.1 patch). But I have a strange problem...

Every time I try to start a new campaign, it will proceed to the loading screen, appear to load, and then crash to the desktop. When I try to start a campaign again a few seconds later, it all works fine.

I've only tried Viking era campaigns so far, but it's happened every time - I'll let you know what happens with the other periods!

But any idea what could be causing this? Anybody else suffered the same problem?

I know it's not exactly the end of the world - I've had no problems starting campaigns on the second attempt. But it does seem a little odd...

[Joshwa]

what video card do you have? Because there is a massive problem with some Nvidia drivers that causes random crashes like that. Also, do random/custom battles still work?

[Deus Ex]

There is definitely a known issue with the latest version of DirectX (10.xx I believe) and CERTAIN versions of Nvidia drivers.

many people have had very good results by rolling back their Nvidia Drivers to an earlier version (including me, on my previous machine, I had to roll back my drivers to 5.something IIRC)- if you do search on the forums for Nvidia and CTD - you will probabably find more information about it than you really wanted to know..
*grin*

Good luck

DE

[Zild]

Well, it seems to be occuring when the screen changes from the loading screen to the campaign map (had it whilst trying to load a save just now).

I'm running and nvidia GeForce 6800 on DX9.0c.

I really don't feel like rolling my drivers back right now - for every problem that solves, it seems to create two more!

[Deus Ex]

that was exactly the problem I had - when rolled back the drivers - boom - suddenly I could play the campaign games...

DE

[Budwise]

Zild, if you can successfully figure out this problem, let me know. I have a 6200 and it won't let me use older drivers that will work with the game.

[Zild]

To be honest, I'm not going to try to fix it unless it becomes very bad. But if I do, and if by some miracle I succeed, I'll let you know!

I've begun thinking that another difficulty I've had may be related to this, although it's a problem I recalling having on my old laptop too...

A game of mine (2.1, Viking Era again) crashed out many many years into it. I've reloaded from the last auto-save about 5 times, but every time it'll CTD again after a few minutes. The times I remember it was whilst just bumming around the campaign map - clicking (or was it right-clicking) on Cerniu prompted at least two of the crashes!

The sholw problem of reloading from autosaves is something I recall from my old system.

Anybody experienced something similar? Think the two are related? (If so, I'll have much more reason to try fixing it!)