The Will of the Senate - out of character thread

[Death the destroyer of worlds]

Hi,
The CTD is definitely caused by having a battle on the battlefield when attacking Pyrrhus when he is stationed in Rhegium. Everything else works fine. No clue where the problem lies. I will try out some different configs today and try to figure out what the problem is.

[econ21]

Good luck tracking down the bug, DDW. You cost me half a night's sleep last night - I had just saved the game where I was about to give battle to Pyrrhus and was going to bed, when I read how attacking him had led your game to crash. So I just had to go back to it and see if it was playable. It was, fortunately, but I'll be anxious approaching Rhegium.

It's good if some people play parallel games to this PBM, especially if there are tech problems like this we may stumble over. Fore-warned is fore-armed, as they say.

[econ21]

I am a muppet.

I took lots of screenshots last night, but the default directory FRAPS saved them in was for an older install that I had deleted. So they are all gone.

Shame - there were some great shots of elephants smashing into hastati and Pyrrhus and Quintus locked in hand to hand combat.

[Death the destroyer of worlds]

Shame about the screenhsots, but good to hear you're being so succesfull on the battlefield.

The link to sho's latest edu gives a file called : export_descr_unitmn.txt
I am assuming this needs to overwrite export_descr_unit.txt ?

[Death the destroyer of worlds]

Hi,
Well I'm done testing. I tried several configs, and the problem is not Pyrrhus his army, but Rhegium itself.
I downloaded your interrim savegame and assaulted Rhegium with the army stationed in Croton which resulted in a CTD again. Attacking anywhere else on the map gives no problems. When I attack Rhegium with RTR 1.4 and metronaval mod, it gives no problems. It seems that the combination of RTR 1.5 and metronaval mod is the problem.
Now, I am running RTW, and do not have BI installed. Could anyone verify that attacking Rhegium causes a CTD for them as well ? Otherwise the problem could be mine alone.

[econ21]

Yes, good point about the EDU - I've clarified that in post #2 now.

On Rhegium, does it crash if you auto-resolve? If you siege them out? I'll try it out myself, although it may take a while.

Edit: I noticed on the RTR forums, in the thread on MN for PE, Macedonn acknowledges the missing Roman traits problem with descr_strat.txt that we noticed. He says he uploaded the wrong file and posts the right one. I wonder if using the right one fixes the Rhegium crash?

[TinCow]

Just FYI, I'm out of town for the weekend and thus won't have much time to update the bios. Be assured that I will ass all pictures and info updates to the Library no later than Monday evening.

[Death the destroyer of worlds]

On Rhegium, does it crash if you auto-resolve? If you siege them out? I'll try it out myself, although it may take a while.

Edit: I noticed on the RTR forums, in the thread on MN for PE, Macedonn acknowledges the missing Roman traits problem with descr_strat.txt that we noticed. He says he uploaded the wrong file and posts the right one. I wonder if using the right one fixes the Rhegium crash?

Yes, I noticed that myself. I does not make any difference. Basically, his changes are the same you made yourself. Autoresolve does work, but of course, the casualties will be high. Sieging them out makes no difference, fighting a battle at the city of Rhegium on the battlefield causes the CTD. For the hell of it, I also tried a night attack, but that makes no difference. I think it must be something to do with generating the battlefield and the geography. Perhaps a terrain file is missing or corrupted. Still, this is the only problem, and quite possibly might be only occuring with my system, so it's not all that important. Should my avatar get involved in a battle that causes a CTD, I'll pass the savegame along to someone else.