Medieval Total War CTDs and Solutions

[padishahmusab]

Hello everyone, Im having a problem playing the campaign (On MTW Viking invasion) and could really use some much needed help.

Here are my specs: Windows 7 64-bit OS 4 GB ATI Radeon 5900 Series, 12 GB Ram, 3.33 GHz Processor

When I start a new campaign, I cannot see any units or cities or any other objects on the campaign map. In addition I cannot see the cursor and when I go to the main menu or the options screen, its seems to blink and turn black. I can play a quick battle pretty well except for the black flashes.

I can play Rome Total War perfectly, but Medieval and Shogun seem to have this problem on them. Any suggestions?

[Purpledoggies]

I have been trying to fix my CTD problem for days, and finally came across this.

When I first installed Viking Invasion, I was getting all manner of error messages. So, I downloaded another Viking Invasion off the same disk. It worked fine, no error messages. But when I click on the icon, the credits dont even start. When the screen with the copyright information appears, the window exits out and nothing happens.

HELP HELP HELP

[caravel]

Apologies for late replies, I missed these somehow.

Yes, modded. My own mod. I only meddled with the Early text and the unit files.

That's probably your answer though. Test vanilla and see if that fails at the same spot. You can test the 1204/1205 transition by modding the early period start date. i.e. change it to 1203 end hit end turn a few times.

When I start a new campaign, I cannot see any units or cities or any other objects on the campaign map. In addition I cannot see the cursor and when I go to the main menu or the options screen, its seems to blink and turn black. I can play a quick battle pretty well except for the black flashes.

This is an entirely new problem for me. Set your desktop colour depth to 16 bit and try again. Does that remove the black flashes only?

I have been trying to fix my CTD problem for days, and finally came across this.

When I first installed Viking Invasion, I was getting all manner of error messages. So, I downloaded another Viking Invasion off the same disk. It worked fine, no error messages. But when I click on the icon, the credits dont even start. When the screen with the copyright information appears, the window exits out and nothing happens.

HELP HELP HELP

You need to post some system specs. Also create the blank text file "skipcredits.txt" and place in the Medieval_TW.exe working directory and see if that gets you any further.

[padishahmusab]

Thanks for the reply, after trying what you recommended this is what I found:

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I can now see castles, units, and other objects on the campaign map, but when I move the cursor around, the screen quickly floods with the same image. Any other suggestions?

[Purpledoggies]

You need to post some system specs. Also create the blank text file "skipcredits.txt" and place in the Medieval_TW.exe working directory and see if that gets you any further.

1. Which one is the working directory?
2.What are specs?

[caravel]

Thanks for the reply, after trying what you recommended this is what I found

That's some kind of DirectDraw acceleration problem. If you have Aero enabled, disable it and try again. Also try running the game in Windowx XP compatibility mode. Other than that I can't be of much help sorry.

1. Which one is the working directory?
2.What are specs?

1) MTW's working directory is the directory where Medieval_TW.exe can be found.

2) System "specifications".

[Purpledoggies]

1) MTW's working directory is the directory where Medieval_TW.exe can be found.

2) System "specifications".

1. Is that the file called medieval total war on "My Computer"?
2. where can I find those?

[Squeak]

So I'm having a CTD problem on the campaign, I browsed through a lot of this thread and haven't found anything like it.

So as I start a campaign the game runs fine, but as a game gets longer it starts to crash more and more often. It happens in a couple specific instances:

When I save a game and hit resume once it loads
When I click on a specific province (For instance, one game every time I clicked on Cordoba it crashed)
When about to start a battle between two large armies

I'm running M:TW with the Vikings Invasion expansion, and I believe it has the most recent patch. I've messed around with ingame video and performance options, and still have crashes.

Here are some of my system specs:

Dell Inspiron 1545
Pentium Dual-Core CPU 2.00GHz
4.00 GB RAM
Windows 7 (64 Bit)
Graphics: Mobile Intel 45 Express Chipset Family (Latest Drivers)

Oddly enough, I have the same problem with crashes beginning once I have played a game for awhile in all of the TW games I've played, Shogun, Medieval and Rome.