Not Working Properly - Please help!

**Flaxmac** · 04-19-2007, 01:06

Hi All,
First off I have to say this is great what you have done.

I have been playing STW for about 3 years, and generally between 4 to 10 hours a day. Thats every day! So I guess you could sort of say I like the game a little. But it was getting a little stale, wonder why ?, any way, so I got the MTW-VI, it's good, but can't compare to STW.

Then I found the MOD (Holy voices chime in!).

I was really looking forward to it, installed it, it worked, I started playing and then periodically it crashes. This is extremely frustrating, because I want to play it so much.

Anyone got any ideas about how to fix this ?
Also i can't find the Choice.com to run the sounds fix.

And I think I will need to run this fix too, I guess ?
(Fix: Rename \Savemaps\Sacred Ground fl.jjm to \Savemaps\Sacred Ground.jjm to make it usable

I am using a laptop running XP.

**R'as al Ghul** · 04-19-2007, 07:09

Originally Posted by Flaxmac

I was really looking forward to it, installed it, it worked, I started playing and then periodically it crashes. This is extremely frustrating, because I want to play it so much.

Anyone got any ideas about how to fix this ?
Also i can't find the Choice.com to run the sounds fix.

And I think I will need to run this fix too, I guess ?
(Fix: Rename \Savemaps\Sacred Ground fl.jjm to \Savemaps\Sacred Ground.jjm to make it usable

I am using a laptop running XP.

Welcome to Samurai Warlords!

Being not able to swap the sounds from STW or not renaming the map file for Sacred Ground doesn't interfere with the game. It should work nevertheless.
I'll point you to a choice.com download later.

So, frequent crashes on XP. I'd like to know more details.
Can you run MTW/VI on your laptop without crashes?
When do crashes occur? On campmap or battle map?
How many factions/ full armies in battle when it crashes (Videocard issue or RAM issue not unlikely with laptops)
We're all using XP, so this should be fixable. Don't despair.

R'as

**Flaxmac** · 04-19-2007, 07:35

Hi And thanks for coming back to me.

Can you run MTW/VI on your laptop without crashes? Yes
When do crashes occur? On campmap or battle map?
Campmap

It's almost like the engine is working overtime to compute what has just happened.

This will make you think, there was a point (after a victory) where I was just resting my troops from the previous move and then click end turn and it crashed.
I came back into it as it saved the gave to that point automatically and then it crashed a few more times at the same point, but if I moved some troops into another domain it allowed the game to proceed. Problem was it was a bridge domain and I didnt have any archers, so I didn't really want to go up against 2 units of archers and 3 YS with only my Daimyo and 3 ND units a Cross Bow unit and one YS.

I tired out a few other clans to start with and after a big victory the computer seemed to crash again, it's almost like it knew it was going to be beaten and didnt want to play any more, but if I made a move where it thought it might win it let the game go on.

Could it be that this game of yours is really ALIVE ???

Ok on a serious note I will be trying to fix it with a few things I read that made the MTW crash that I have read on this forum.

Shown on this thread
https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showthread.php?t=79500
I'll let you know if it works.

Tell me how often do you play the game, there has to be other people that play it as much as if not more than me right, tell me it's true.

The funny thing is I dont play any other computer games.

**barocca** · 04-19-2007, 09:50

we play this game all the time, there are even crazy people
(um...us actually)
who play it online against each other...

B.

**Flaxmac** · 04-20-2007, 00:50

Hi,
Well I attempted everything I could on the advice page but the only thing I could actually change was the Game's visual resolution.
The other stuff I couldn't figure out how to do.
I am using a Compaq Presserio.

Another thing I noted while it was shutting down is that the shortcut icon was moving back to the default position for it was first loaded, (bottom left of the screen just after the last shortcut icon) and not where I put in the top right of the screen. Does this mean anything to you?

The only way I can seem to proceed with the game is to save after I have finished my moves, then click end turn, hope that it works this time, watch it crash before my eyes, then make a different move, click end turn, (repeat until it's a move that the game will let me proceed with) and then start the process again.

Not as much fun this way, sob sob sob.....

I went a deleted all the old saved games from the MTW that were still in the game when I copied it to make my Beta version, but this didn't help.

Then I thought Ok maybe I have stuffed it with other stuff I do on the computer, (installing Microsofts Visual Dev developer) so I tried to run the old version of MTW (in the original folder) to see if that was going to crash as well, but it worked to fine, apart from me being to ambitious and playing the irish on expert level, have to remember that this game is a little harder than STW.

Running out of ideas here can anyone please help ?