Medieval Total War CTDs and Solutions

[caravel]

i can't believe my noodles!! it actually works!!
you've just saved my soul!! i am so much into the worship of you..

Glad you got it working icarus0626

It would be helpful to others if you could detail exactly what you did and what it was that worked?

but now i'm thinking of getting a new vid card and scrapping the old one..
*smash!!

any suggestions? hopefully something i can use to play MTW2 and other modern games that needs pixel shaders, etc and at the same time run MTW..
preferably something that can run MTW on a more recent driver... or something..

In doing this you will open up the "new graphics card won't run MTW" can of worms. Also, and I'm going by your 1.1GHz AMD Duron CPU here, you system seems rather low end, and probably doesn't have a motherboard with PCIe slots? In all honesty you're looking at a new system. If you want to get a cheap, not quite as dated, stopgap card to replace that one (though I'm not even sure that's worth it) post up a new thread in the hardware and software forum and see what suggestions people come up with.

HELP ME!!!

Im really desperate. I'm getting a CTD when I enter the campaign. My settings:

- unit size: HUGE
- camp map resolution: 1152x8(something)
- battlemap resolution: 1280x1024

Intel Pentium IV 3.2
512MB DDRII
ATI RADEON X700 256MB

Help me please. It's patched to 2.1

Which ATI driver version? If it's the latest drivers, that could be your problem. That is not to say that the latest drivers or newer cards are always the cause of this but it is very common.

Is it an AGP card? If so disable the "AGP Texture Acceleration" from dxdiag.

Try lower resolutions, such as 1024*768. Set your desktop (temporarily) to the same (and 16 bit colour) and see if that eliminates it.

When exactly does the crash occur? Check your MTW error.log file and post up contents here.

Add the "skipcredits.txt" file to the MTW working directory if you haven't done so already.

HELP!!

Guys, I'm new to the forum. And I need your help desperately.

My problem is I have just recently bought a copy of Medieval Total War (Gold Edition) which includes the Viking Invasion pack but it will not run for me.

Welcome to the .org brkill

I have a Pentium 3 with 933mhz processor, WinXP Home (SP 2), and GeForce 2 graphics card with 256mb of RAM. I know it is an old machine but I am well over the specs to run the game. But when I double click the start icon the screen goes black for a few moments and then a warning dialog appears telling me the I am running a debugger and the game won't go any further.

How do I know if a debugger is actually running and how do I deactivate it?

I am dying to try out my game and I'm getting very frustrated as I have tried everything. I hope someone on this forum can help and my apologies if I am posting in the wrong section of the forum.

Many thanks in advance.

Do you have Nero Burning ROM installed? I believe this to be due to a "conflict" between the supposed "debugger" (something to do with the video codec) in Nero and the safedisc copy protection software (basically the idea seems to be that a debugger may allow someone to trace the program execution and perhaps observe how the safedisc works, so to be safe it disallows it (yes it's crapware that tells you what you can and cannot run on your own computer and it doesn't work properly either )). If you do have Nero installed go to start -> run and type (you can copy and paste):

regsvr32 /u "C:\Program Files\Common Files\Ahead\DSFilter\NeVideo.ax"

This will unregister the component (the video decoder) that is causing the problem. If it fails it may be because you've installed Nero to a different location to the one above. In this case you'll need to edit the path to match your location or it won't do anything. Reboot after this and try to run MTW again.

You will lose some functionality of Nero but you can re-enable this functionality when necessary by doing:

"regsvr32 "C:\Program Files\Common Files\Ahead\DSFilter\NeVideo.ax"

To disable it run the first command again (at least I think that will work, but have your Nero CD handy just in case).

If Nero isn't causing this then it could be another program, though it's usually Nero 99% of the time, depending on what you have installed on your PC?

[edyzmedieval]

Which ATI driver version? If it's the latest drivers, that could be your problem. That is not to say that the latest drivers or newer cards are always the cause of this but it is very common.

Is it an AGP card? If so disable the "AGP Texture Acceleration" from dxdiag.

Try lower resolutions, such as 1024*768. Set your desktop (temporarily) to the same (and 16 bit colour) and see if that eliminates it.

When exactly does the crash occur? Check your MTW error.log file and post up contents here.

Add the "skipcredits.txt" file to the MTW working directory if you haven't done so already.

Something like 6.5 I think. Dunno, I have to check this. It's a PCI Express 16x card, really new. Lower resolutions, will try it.

Ok, will check everything and post.

[caravel]

Something like 6.5 I think. Dunno, I have to check this. It's a PCI Express 16x card, really new. Lower resolutions, will try it.

Ok, will check everything and post.

If that fails try following the instructions in this post:

https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showp...&postcount=140

Considering your card does fit the category of the pre X1xxx series mentioned, it may do the trick.

Good luck.

[Arruda]

Hello, new to the forum, glad I found it because everyone here seems helpfull.

I just bought Total War: Eras

I have a graphics problem wich I can't find a solution. I installed Shogun TW and Medieval TW (the problem is exactly the same for both games). When I try to run the games, I receive an error prompt that says something like "To run this software your screen resolution should be no less than 800x600".

That's just it. The game simply doesn't launch, I never got to see the main menu. I already had bought RTW so, thus far, buying this box was totally uselless to me :(

I obviously have a much higher resolution than 800x600 and I tried lowering it and switching to different display settings but nothing worked.

This seems to be a different problem than many of the posters here refered, so I haven't tried the steps in the first post regarding cleaning the drivers and installing old ones. Should I???

My computer is a Pentium IV 2.8 GHz with 1GB of Ram.

The graphics gard is a Nvidia Geforce FX5500 (oh noooooooooooo...)

Well, if you need more information about my system please ask, I know very little about computers but I'll sort it out.

Thank you all.

[caravel]

Hello, new to the forum, glad I found it because everyone here seems helpfull.

Welcome, Arruda, to the .org

I just bought Total War: Eras

I have a graphics problem wich I can't find a solution. I installed Shogun TW and Medieval TW (the problem is exactly the same for both games). When I try to run the games, I receive an error prompt that says something like "To run this software your screen resolution should be no less than 800x600".

That's just it. The game simply doesn't launch, I never got to see the main menu. I already had bought RTW so, thus far, buying this box was totally uselless to me :(

I obviously have a much higher resolution than 800x600 and I tried lowering it and switching to different display settings but nothing worked.

The only obvious thing I can think of at the moment is drivers, which version are you running?

Also it may be that the the game is trying to display on the primary/secondary head. That is, since the card is dual head perhaps the game is trying to output to the other unused head? A long shot but I can't think of anything else off hand. Is you monitor an LCD or CRT?

This seems to be a different problem than many of the posters here refered, so I haven't tried the steps in the first post regarding cleaning the drivers and installing old ones. Should I???

First find out which version of the drivers you are using currently using.

My computer is a Pentium IV 2.8 GHz with 1GB of Ram.

The graphics gard is a Nvidia Geforce FX5500 (oh noooooooooooo...)

Well, if you need more information about my system please ask, I know very little about computers but I'll sort it out.

Thank you all.

That is an older NV34 based budget line card but should still run the game. The only other thing I can suggest is enabling the 2x AA and leaving it enabled. If it makes no difference still leave it enabled. Some more system info would be useful, and particularly which head you've connected the graphics card to. Also did you try the "skipcredits.txt" fix mentioned above in case it's just the intro video causing the problem?

[brkill]

Thanks Guys

It was Nero causing the problem. I have removed it and the game is working except for the FMVs. I think there is a fix for that issue also here some where.

[caravel]

Glad to hear it's working, though you needn't have uninstalled Nero if you'd have followed the instructions on unregistering the video decoder in post #32.