Crash problem...

[caravel]

And I avoid quicksave because it leads to corrupted saves...

Oh well it seems you can't win either way. I'll have to try quicksaving right at the beginning of a turn and see how that goes.

[Deus ret.]

The quicksave isn't safe from the bug. not at all; on the contrary, Strg-F5 to me seems to be more liable to it. when I played the Byz in XL, high, at one point the Crusader states attacked me with all they had. my 7-star general and his elite border stack repulsed them in a great battle but the campaign screen never appeared again. period. I only had a quicksave the turn before which inevitably led to the crash no matter if I withdrew or fought my last regular save was at least 20 eventful years back so I deceided to kick it.

btw it's not just XL which suffers from the bug. I experienced it in the Super Mod and MedMod as well.

....but hey, maybe it's a different issue altogether because I never got any error messages; it just freezes and in some cases I even had to resort to reset. New installations of MTW don't solve the problem so I pray it doesn't appear and save in both ways

[caravel]

Well I'd never had this problem before, only recently. And I've been playing MTW (and VI) since it's release. Very annoying.

[Martok]

Hey guys,

One of the biggest reasons for this problem is people's video drivers. I'm not technically-inclined whatsoever, but in this case I speak with the voice of experience. I dealt with this very same issue a couple months ago, and (on the advice of the good folks in the Apothecary) was able to fix it by downloading & installing different video drivers.

This solution probably won't work for everyone, however, so I strongly urge you to check out the Apothecary, as there are several threads that address the MTW save/crash problem.