237 bc bug

**orangat** · 01-11-2006, 01:32

This is absolutely ridiculous for a mature product with numerous patches to have such a serious bug.
My first rtw in a long while and its buggy pos.

**Oaty** · 01-11-2006, 01:54

Does this only have an effect when playing as Carthage? I've made it past 237bc in my campaign as Julii. Also loading from autosave may kill that corruption bug as a workaround for now.

**Mamba** · 01-11-2006, 05:07

It happened for me using the Julii, and Autosave didn't help. This bug is getting more mysterious by the day.

**Seasoned Alcoholic** · 01-11-2006, 11:00

On a side note, where did you download your RTW v1.5 patch from? Perhaps it is a corrupt patch? I'd downloaded RTW v1.3 from DOWNLOAD.COM, and this was a potentially corrupt patch because I found 2 models which needed partial recoding. Everytime you met these 2 units (velites, velite gladiators) on the battlefield, the game would just crash.

If you're convinced that it is this Carthaginian through a glass clearly event, why not remove the entry from the descr_events @ C:\Program Files\Activision\Rome - Total War\Data\world\maps\campaign\imperial_campaign, just backup the file before you do the editing.

**professorspatula** · 01-11-2006, 16:07

From what I read on the official forums, this bug tends to affect people who are continuing a campaign from version 1.3 or earlier. Certain historic events cause the crash. I haven't experienced it in my saves or campaigns since 1.5 though.

Removing the event from the descr_events.txt file apparently does nothing, because once the campaign has started and the file has been read and the game saved, it doesn't reference that file anymore. Or something along those lines.

**orangat** · 01-11-2006, 18:10

A thread at twc says that Julii 1.5 crashes at 161BC.
http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?t=40795

So 2 dates seems to have problems.

**orangat** · 01-11-2006, 18:25

Would the cheat date year work by skipping over a probem year before it crashes.

**Ciaran** · 01-13-2006, 23:01

Originally Posted by professorspatula

From what I read on the official forums, this bug tends to affect people who are continuing a campaign from version 1.3 or earlier.

Surprise there. And I thought it was common knowledge that savegames don´t work after the application of patches. I´ve never, ever, heard that they did.

**Ludens** · 01-14-2006, 19:22

Originally Posted by Ciaran

Surprise there. And I thought it was common knowledge that savegames don´t work after the application of patches. I´ve never, ever, heard that they did.

CA claims that 1.3 and 1.2 patches should work with 1.5. (1.5 Readme). So apparently they overlooked something or it is a random problem.