I have lost my patience!

[Derfasciti]

Ok, I bought the total war eras package last night for 60 bucks. ((see my thread in the sword dojo)) and have had many many problems with shogun total war. Now, I install medieval total war and I cant even get into the main menu! Every time I start it up it doesent go through the very first add when it minimizes and pops up with:


Runtime Error!

program: ...mbyl/medieval-Total War - Gold Edition\Medieval_TW.exe



R6025
-pure virtual function call



I'm losing my control. A perfectly fine, 60$ package I can't seem to play because the discs are being stupid. I'm sorry if I seem to be freaking out but I am. This is utterly ridiculous!

[nick_maxell]

sorry about your problems - did you install the relevant patches? (I m not sure wich versions your package included)

You might find more info on this thread
https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showt...hlight=patches

as the probs sound like yours (ususally graph card)

hope I could help a little



nick

[Derfasciti]

Thanks for the thread. Do you know where the patche(s) are?

[nick_maxell]

Hi,

lacking knowledge of your system/game you should be able to find links to patches (and solutions to other problems with the game) in the Apothecary
https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/forumdisplay.php?f=15

If you have a specific problem you can find threads using the search function.

nick

edit: here is a page with the MTW patches - not sure which one you will need:
http://www.3ddownloads.com/totalwar/MTW/patches

[naut]

A very odd error, I've experienced errors, but non such as this.

[Vladimir]

I hope they included all the latest patches in the eras collection. A search of the forums should reveal a lot of help in solving your problems. The greatest obstacle is the graphics card; they're not "backwards compatible" (if that's a valid phrase) and may have to be tweaked or rolled back.

[Derfasciti]

Hmmm I downloaded what i thought was good. the gold edition 2.1 version. Was this the right one? I extracted the files, tried it to run and it said it wouldn't work. Re-installing the application may fix it. What does this mean?

I am not very computer oriented so could someone please give me step by step directions on what to do?

[caravel]

Did you try the "skipcredits.txt" referred to in that thread? If not I suggest you do so. It could be related to mediaplayer and not MTW itself. "skipcredits.txt" will prevent the introduction videos from playing.

I'm not sure if you'd need the patch, as MTW Gold Edition should already be effectively MTW/VI v2.01.

[monkian]

Mine installed fine - definately sounds like the intro vids are causing a problem.

Turn 'em off dude.

[Derfasciti]

"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."


Ok, I'm not very computer knowledgeable at all. It seems though I don't have a Notepad or anything that might resemble it. Any ideas?

[drone]

You should have Notepad, it's a basic Windows tool. Should be under StartMenu->Programs->Accessories->Notepad.

[Mithrandir]

or right click anywhere on this page (not on an image) and select view source. a notpad file will have opened.

[Derfasciti]

Stupid me, i fogot about accessories!

Ok, I've opened the notepad, what now?

[Geezer57]

Save as "skipcredits.txt". The file doesn't need any contents.

[Derfasciti]

I might know where your going but I'm paranoid about getting it wrong and I am VERY stupid when it comes to computers, could you give me a step-by-step very basic for dummies and please humor me

[Galagros]

Open Notepad. Do not type anything. Left click file. Left click "save as". Type skipcredits.txt in the box beside "File Name". Locate your "Medieval - Total War" folder (the default location should be C Drive / Program Files / Total War / Medieval - Total War). Left click save.

Heh, probably a little too clear.... I hope.

[Derfasciti]

Ok, I did EXACTLY what you said. I went into HP Pavilion C, then into programs, then total war, then medieval-total War and it's in there. But... it still does what it used to do...

[Galagros]

Did it automatically add a .txt on the end? Try doing it again, but just name it skipcredits. That's my only advice, sorry.

[Derfasciti]

Hmmm no good. it originally had an asterisk in the box but i deleted everything and wrote skipcredits.txt myself.

[Derfasciti]

Perhaps if I re-install it, will it work? I'm running out of ideas here I did make several copies of the skipcredits.txt but i think thats because it kept on not working.

[Quietus]

Googled.

http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;125749

RESOLUTION
Calling a pure virtual function is a programming error, so you need to find the call to the pure virtual function and rewrite the code so it is not called.

One way to find a call to a pure virtual function is to replace the pure virtual function with an implementation that calls the Windows API function DebugBreak. When using the debugger, DebugBreak will cause a hard-coded breakpoint. When the code stops running at this breakpoint, you can view the callstack to see where the function was called.

Another way to find a call to a pure virtual function is to set a breakpoint on the _purecall function that is found in PureVirt.c. Breaking on this function has the advantage of keeping the stack intact so that you can trace what is occurring.

Maybe, the Apothecary can help. It's pretty technical.

[caravel]

This information is for the programmer. Not being a posessor of any Microsoft source code, it's not going to be much help.

You really need to get the skipcredits.txt setup properly. Follow these instructions exactly:

1) right click your desktop
2) select "new"
3) select "text document"
4) rename the file now on your desktop as follows:

If the file appears as "New Text Document":

Rename it as "skipcredits"

If the file appears as "New Text Document.txt":

Rename it as "skipcredits.txt".

5) you should now have a file on your desktop called either: "skipcredits.txt" or "skipcredits". The icon for this file should be like a small page of a notepad containing a series of small horizontal lines. When you double click on this icon, a notepad window should open. The document should be blank. If the notepad window opened close it. If it didn't open and/or the icon doesn't resemble the description above, then you've done something wrong.

6) assuming all went well, you now need to move this file to the %systemroot%\Total War\medieval - total war\ folder. This may be e.g. C:\Total War\Medieval - Total War\ or it could be any directory that you installed the game to. This directory will always contain the MTW program itself. This file is called Medieval_TW.exe (or Medieval_TW). You should place skipcredits.txt (or skipcredits) in the same directory as this file. If it is not placed in the same directory it will be ineffectual.

[Derfasciti]

Ok, steps 1-5 went off without a hitch. Now, just to be sure, please tell me how to do step 6 exactly. I have an idea I think but why take chances?

[caravel]

Ok now right click on the skipcredits (or skipcredits.txt) file on your desktop and select 'copy'. Now browse to the folder containing the "Medieval_TW" (or" Medieval_TW.exe") file, right click anywhere inside that folder and select 'paste'.

[Derfasciti]

God, I know i'm going to sound like a total moron and I probably am for this but...browse?

[Dutch_guy]

God, I know i'm going to sound like a total moron and I probably am for this but...browse?

Browse in this context merely means ''Go to''

Oh and don't worry about sounding stupid, we've all seen worse

[Derfasciti]

Browse in this context merely means ''Go to''

Oh and don't worry about sounding stupid, we've all seen worse

hehe thanks

Ok, so I could find this in Notepad, right? (searching now)


Hmmm I did through notepad both ways. (open and save as)

The Look In slot says Medieval - Total War

I'll give a few examples of the other files and folders in here if it helps:
DumpLog
SavedGames
ZTexMax
ZTexture
jm_Log

This is all out of order...

And both times after I put it in there it went through the Total War sign for a second and then did the error popup just like usual...

[Dutch_guy]

hehe thanks

Ok, so I could find this in Notepad, right? (searching now)

You know what, I'll show you how to do it all.

I'll edit this post in a while*, now you understand everything up to step 5, going by Caravel's list ?

Am I right ?

* See post 31.

[Derfasciti]

Yes, indeedy. I did everything there. Just getting my skipcredits thing to where it needs to go seems to be the only problem.

[caravel]

Try the following link in Internet Explorer. Does that open the corret folder?

file://C:\Program Files\Total War\Medieval - Total War\