CTD after making more factions playable

[ByzantineKnight]

No, I mean have you installed any mods e.g. Blue Lotus, or mini-mods e.g. Spartan Royal Guard.

[PaulTa]

No mods what so ever.

Is there a mod available that lets you play unplayable factions in RTW if you have the gold edition?

I'm crossing my fingers.

[ByzantineKnight]

No mods what so ever.

Is there a mod available that lets you play unplayable factions in RTW if you have the gold edition?

I'm crossing my fingers.

I'm not sure, you could check Total War Centre's Downloads, I'll be able to do that in about 30 minutes if you don't know where to go.

[Barbarossa82]

In 1.3 and 1.4, you have to have a campaign description for every faction you want to play as, or you will get a CTD on selection. You can add descriptions in the files Data/text/campaign_descriptions.txt and BI\Data\text\campaign_descriptions.txt. The descriptions don't have to be long, just the word "playable" would be enough. So, if you wanted to play as the Armenians in 1.3 RTW, go to the campaign_descriptions.txt file and add this:

{IMPERIAL_CAMPAIGN_ARMENIA_TITLE}Armenia
{IMPERIAL_CAMPAIGN_ARMENIA_DESCR}Playable

Note that this doesn't let you play as emerging factions, but will stop the CTDs when selecting a "non-playable" faction.
AFAIK the issue doesn't exist in 1.5 or 1.6

[PaulTa]

Barbarossa82:

If you're ever on the western half of the mountains in Washington, I owe you a beer. I think that might be the problem.

Thanks mate.