MTW VI desktop crash - strange

**Weebeast** · 12-08-2005, 07:12

Could this happen because the routing army (which included the king) was too big for the castle?
Has anyone experienced this?

Nope, my game works fine. Since Denmark is the only province they own, the crappy soldiers that don't get inside their castle become captured soldiers. It's always like that.

Did you previously install a mod or something? I guess not. I'm also guessing that something is corrupted; the "alliance has won the day" message is missing or "your general has received ransom" message is missing. It could also be caused by missing images. Try reinstalling the game or something.

I know I'm not helping but I can at least give you hope while waiting for other answers. I seriously have no idea what's going on lol.

**matteus the inbred** · 12-08-2005, 12:29

i have had this too with V2.1...when pressing escape to return to the main menu and also after a 'victory/enemy is now besieged' message it has crashed straight out to Windows with no warning and no error messages. can't find a decent explanation, even on Activision's support area.
occasionally still have battle screen crashes/faults but that's my crappy Radeon graphics card.

**Duke Eugen** · 12-17-2005, 10:01

Originally Posted by matteus the inbred

i have had this too with V2.1...when pressing escape to return to the main menu and also after a 'victory/enemy is now besieged' message it has crashed straight out to Windows with no warning and no error messages. can't find a decent explanation, even on Activision's support area.
occasionally still have battle screen crashes/faults but that's my crappy Radeon graphics card.

My V2.1 crashes sometimes mostly after storming castles.
I never found out why from Activision ether. Now my motto is save early save often.

**King Noob the Stupid** · 12-17-2005, 15:08

I have the same problem and also had trouble to get it (MTW VI 2.1) to work, but it was the other way round (graphics card too new for real MTW-compatible drivers), MTW will run well as long as I save often enough and let the AI do the battles, but when I try to play a 3D battle, it dies afterwards the same way as yours (this happened in several campaigns), I then reload my newest save game (mostly quicksaves/autosaves), autocalc the battle and 1 or 2 years later, there's another CTD (it always happens), I got the feeling that the game only runs well when I play "fresh" games and that it crashes when I try to continue a loaded one, I also noticed little graphical problems such as some buildings in the province view being displayed as strange purple patterns.
Does this mean that there are missing files and re-installing the game is gonna help, or is there another cause?