Medieval Total War CTDs and Solutions

[caravel]

Ok I've just run a test I've been meaning to do for ages. The crash on exit appears to be indirectly related to the wav sound that is played when you exit the game. I have tried exiting with sound disabled and the problem doesn't occur. The game exits instantly. The sound always delays the games exit anyway, but if it hangs, then the game won't be able to exit at all. I've tried replacing the file with a smaller wav file used for the sliders but it has the same result.

-Edit: Ok I have a temporary fix to the crash on exit problem:

1) Browse to the "\...\Medieval - Total War\Sounds\Frontend" folder
2) Rename "quit_game.wav" to "quit_game.bak"

This doesn't throw any kind of an error message, it just delays very slightly when you click to confirm the exit and then the program exits normally. This is all I can suggest until another solution is available.

I believe the problem may be caused by the program trying to quit too early before the sound has finished playing, this may be a side effect of a faster graphics card, as I've never had this problem with my previous graphics cards, only with the ATI Radeon 9800.

-Edit: It doesn't always work. I still get the crash on exit most of the time....