The patch is here

[nogoodscallywag]

I am also having the same problem...

I had not had any crashes using the English until i began fighting the Timurids and when their elephants began firing the game would crash...

i downloaded the patch it it worked for a day, but now it crashes whenever I play them occasionally, but not as much...

I don't understand.

Also the part about:

Due to a timestamp check, the following unpacked files will
cause the game to crash and must be deleted before the game is
launched:

datadescr_geography_new.txt
datadescr_geography_new.db

????

The unpacked files don't contain any sort of files like these...

Anyone else having crash problems facing the Timurids? My problem is that if I let the auto resolve do my battles, i always lose against those dumb elephants and handgunners...but when I play myself I win...so the campaign will take fifty times as long. it is ridiculous.

[sapi]

If you are still getting the timurids issue you have not installed the patch.

To install it, extract the files to any location, browse there and run the file setup.exe. This will then launch the installer which you need to point to your m2tw directory.

Don't worry about the files to delete - if you don't use the unpacker (a tool for modders) you dont' need to worry about them.

[Warluster]

Is the unpacker with the Patch? Or separate?

[dopp]

The unpacker is a modding tool that is installed when you patch the game. Don't worry about it if you don't mod. If you do mod, then check your M2TW installation folder after you have run the patch, there should be an 'unpacker' folder containing the program.

[nogoodscallywag]

I beg to differ, I have installed the patch correctly...

I ran the setup and the game itself opened up and began installing the patch, then completed it.

The game ran fine for a while and now the game is beginning to crash once again with the timurids.

I even redownloaded the patch and reinstalled it and now the game only crashes a few times per encounter, yet it still does. however, it will crash midway throught the battles instead of the beginning.

[radnor]

If you are still getting the timurids issue you have not installed the patch.

This is not correct. The Timurid units still cause crashes with the patch in place.
Not as many but the problem is still a big one.
One example is if a Timurid attack is passive and you leave the city to attack this almost always causes a crash.
In some cases I have defended a city and won only to have the game crash out on the loading sequence.

[HughTower]

I agree - timurids bug is still there, post-patch.

[Marquis of Roland]

just installed patch and now its not letting me play night battles with more than 2 armies on the field at the same time. Whats up with that?

[katank]

Night battles remove reinforcements for both sides. Maybe this isn't the case if both your generals are night fighters?

[Marquis of Roland]

Night battles remove reinforcements for both sides. Maybe this isn't the case if both your generals are night fighters?

Its an error message that pops up and says the cpu is too slow. This didn't pop out before. 1.8 processor

[Gray_Lensman]

...

Also the part about:

Due to a timestamp check, the following unpacked files will
cause the game to crash and must be deleted before the game is
launched:

datadescr_geography_new.txt
datadescr_geography_new.db

????

The unpacked files don't contain any sort of files like these...

Wrong, they are indeed there, I forget which folder they were in, since I already deleted them, so you may have to use the "search" function of "Explore" in Windows to locate them, but they were indeed unpacked using the unpack_all.bat. Keep in mind the unpacker unpacks an additional 36,000 files, so searching by the above method is almost mandatory.

[Gray_Lensman]

According to pack_contents.txt (obtained by running list_contents.bat) the descr_geography_new.txt and descr_geography_new.db will be in the /data folder (not any of the /data subfolders), same as the Readme.txt file suggests. That's where I found them before I deleted them.

[nogoodscallywag]

i'm not calling you a liar gray, but these files do not exist on my computer...

i did a search several times in several different ways on my computer and the search came up empty for these files.

i do know that the patch was indeed installed so i am not sure why my computer cannot find these files.

maybe i am doing something wrong...

i hope they fix this timurid deal quickly because my game has virtually come to a standstill...my kingdom borders on theirs and since i cant actually play the battles, i have to let the computer decide and most times it goes in their favor! boooooooo

[Dead Knight of the Living]

i'm not calling you a liar gray, but these files do not exist on my computer...

i did a search several times in several different ways on my computer and the search came up empty for these files.

i do know that the patch was indeed installed so i am not sure why my computer cannot find these files.

maybe i am doing something wrong...

i hope they fix this timurid deal quickly because my game has virtually come to a standstill...my kingdom borders on theirs and since i cant actually play the battles, i have to let the computer decide and most times it goes in their favor! boooooooo

Those files are not on my computer either. I searched every file and folder associated with M2TW and didn't find them.

Anyway, I installed the patch and don't really notice any difference. My game was purchased after the patch was released. Maybe my game was patched when I bought it. I don't know.

Either way, I notice no difference. My Billmen still will not swing their weapons. They kill just about nothing on the battlefield. I've stopped recruiting them and disbanded the ones I currently have in my armies.

The AI is still passive. I normally clear out the enemy missile soldiers at the beginning of a battle. In MTW and RTW the AI wouldn't let me do this without sending some support to its missile troops. Now I can wipe out the missile troops and only if I get real close to a melee unit will it move on me.

The sieges are not passive. The enemy goes right into the attack. Even if I sally on them. So sieges are good so far.

My biggest problem with this game is on the campaign map. I'm playing England right now. Everytime someone sends a merchant to seize my merchants' assets, they succeed every single time. My merchants only succeed in 1 of every 4 attempts.

Milan has send like 10 assassins into my territory. I've sent upwards of a hundred assassins against them to get rid of them. My success rating is always 5%. And I haven't managed to kill one of them. That is defintily bad juju. I can't kill Milanese spies either. And I've probably managed to kill 3 or 4 diplomats throughout the entire game. DIPLOMATS. And all the enemy diplomats have full rankings. What do they do to get such high rank? Perform sexual favors?

What building do you need to get your diplomats to do that?

[JCoyote]

Dammit bump the wrong post and make me think a miracle happened and the 1.2 patch is out already!

[PaulTa]

No joke. And here I thought that CA wanted to get the patch out before my birthday. :(