How you manage the -show_err in this stupid modding nightmare of a game?!!!

[Cormaeg]

I for one am not at all happy that the powers that be decided to make this game as absolutely complicated as possible to mod!

Now that I have that off my chest, how can you get the thing to tell you what's wrong? -show_err makes the game refuse to launch, citing a fatal error.

[Lusted]

-show_err isn't in M2Tw, instead CA have given us modders the much more useful system.log.txt, located in the main M2TW folder. It gives much more useful info on errors, and reports multiple errors at once.

[alpaca]

Moved to modding questions.

[Casuir]

Might be best if you read the tutorials for setting the game up for modding before you start lambasting the creators.
https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showthread.php?t=76289

[Cormaeg]

Actually, Casuir, I did read up on how to set the game up for modding...how do you suppose I got this far? I stand by my statement that they made it just as complicated as possible. I'm sorry we can't all be computer whizzes as no doubt you are.

Thank you Lusted for the heads-up on the system log text. However, on a tottally re-installed clean game with no changes, I get all kinds of warnings and missing this and missing that...and on the prior problem the last line said something about an unknown system error. So I'm not sure exactly what you mean about much more useful information on errors, but I'm sure you know what you are talking about-maybe I'll find out as I go on.

[nikolai1962]

It is more useful than show_err but it may not be immediately obvious, especially with some errors. You do get a lot more specific type errors as you mod but it doesn't include everything and it does include a ton of warning level messages. (I think alpaca posted something that showed how to tweak the level of error messages you get but i forget where.)

Some errors just give the unknown error message thing. In my case these were mostly errors in the text files. As in rtw these are generally insta-crash type errors, things like no city/region name in the settlements bin file.