MTW VI Crashes

**unseelie craig** · 08-11-2006, 21:20

Hello Everyone.
Nice to meet all of you. I NEED help, please.
I just got the Total War: Eras package a few days ago. I also just got a new computer with a widescreen monitor.

I have installed all the games in my new computer. Rome & Shogun both seem to start fine and I can get into both games. But after installing MTW VI i seem to be getting issues that I cannot figure out how to solve.

When the game starts, right before the movie is about to play, a runtime error comes up and minimizes the game. It doesnt totally crash the game, as i am able to maximize it again, and get into the main menu (but the movie is obviously skipped). It seems something with the movie is not agreeing with my system.

Does anyone know what might be wrong?
The first thing I did was update my video card drivers (after recalling the problems I experienced in trying to run the original MTW when i got it 3 years ago)
this is the error:

RUNTIME ERROR
R6025
Pure Virtual Function Call

Now for problem #2:

The game doesnt totally crash after the runtime error... as i am able to get back into the main menu but when I try to start a campaign, the game TOTALLY CRASHES in the "loading screen" right before the campaign map can open. The interesting thing is, that I can go into a quick battle perfectly fine with no crashes... it only seems to happen when trying to open the "campaign" screen.

Anyone know what might be the problem?

I am at wits end after screwing around with this for the last 6 days.
Both Rome and Shogun seem to be fine... both of their initial movies played... and I was able to get into both games... So as far as i can tell they dont have serious problems. But, MTW Viking Invasion is the main one I want to play now (silly me never got it when it came out years ago!) and i have been looking forward to it. But I got to say, that i am so frustrated that I am going to return the game if i cannot get it working. So, if anyone has good ideas or knows specifically what is wrong, then please respond.

thanks!
Craig

**Celtic_Guardian** · 08-12-2006, 15:54

Im not much of a tech person but someone else might be, what video card are you using?

**professorspatula** · 08-13-2006, 04:29

Typically the game crashing when attempting to load the campaign map is a video driver issue. Those people with Nvidia cards and drivers above the 61.xx series tend to get crashes and problems like you mentioned, although I'm not sure if ATI users are affected. Using an older driver or forcing your card to use 2x Anti-aliasing (perhaps even above 2x) for some reason often prevents the crash from happening so often. I certainly found it true for me.

It's a little disappointing they didn't try and fix the problem with the re-release of MTW when potentially a large number of people may experience the crash issue. Still, I suppose Total War Eras wasn't about spending money to fix things, it was purely about making money.

**naut** · 08-13-2006, 06:11

Originally Posted by Geezer57

GeForce users with older generation graphics cores (5xxx and earlier) should stick with older drivers (v61.77 or earlier), those with newer cores (6xxx and up) should try manually setting anti-aliasing to 2X. Those tips seem to work for most folks experiencing graphics problems with Medieval - Total War.

That should allow for campaign map playing.

**unseelie craig** · 08-13-2006, 08:09

Originally Posted by Celtic_Guardian

Im not much of a tech person but someone else might be, what video card are you using?

it is a new HP 7580 computer with a GeForce 7300 LE card

**unseelie craig** · 08-13-2006, 08:22

Thanks professorspatula and Rythmic!

I changed the anit-aliasing to 2x and that seems to work for the campaign map! so that part is seems to be solved... i can now at least get into the game!
The beginning movie still crashes with that Runtime Error R6025. Any ideas what might fix that? unless there is some bug in the program or installation?

Yeah, im sure it was about making money.... that and convenience. I never had any of the other games... only MTW... so it was kind of nice when this package came out... especially with all the expansions and the patches.

much appreciation for the help! :)

**Geezer57** · 08-14-2006, 13:08

Use Notepad to create an empty text file named "skipcredits.txt" (without the quote marks) and place it in the root of your Medieval - Total War folder. That will prevent the opening movie from playing - sounds like you may be having a problem with your media player settings.

**unseelie craig** · 08-16-2006, 17:59

what kind of media player settings do you think?
i just got this computer 2 weeks ago, and media player 10 is on there.
is there anything that i should change to help the movie play?

its not a huge deal, because at least i can play the game now. but i should be able to watch the beginning movie. I never had issues with the movie in my old MTW. So any suggestions or setting changes you might have would be great.

thanks!