Campaign Map Not Loading....

[wlesmana]

Another cause of CTD during first time End Turn button:
- Bad character name file. To check, try Saving before End Turn. If it crashed then, then it is the bad name file as it creates an error during creation of a saved game and End Turn is (on default) auto-saved.

[Dol Guldur]

I believe this is one of the reasons devs usually disable the save-game preference. It's still disabled in the release of Fourth Age :)

[Makanyane]

Thanks chaps, updated 2nd post.

for under;CTD without message immediately after pressing end turn button for first time.

* Having a faction as faction-creator in descr_regions and not having it in descr_strat.

I put that in but with a note, I'm sure that's meant to give you a KTM with a message rather than let you in to campaign. It does for me but that might be a difference between BI and RTW, will check if that is case when I get time.
(if it's not the difference between the games then you've just taken over from me for habit of getting weird errors! )

[Ramashan]

Great resource for mapping problems. This will become my go to trouble shooting reference.

One thing that has bit me several times when resizing map_regions, simply because I am making changes and testing too quickly, is forgetting to change 'bicubic' to 'nearestneighbor' in the image resize tool.

This will cause a CTD and not create a rwm file.

[Makanyane]

Ramashan, good point will try and add something to top post about that. I've also accidentally done that to map_regions in PaintShopPro, that one needs Pixel Resize instead of Smart Size.

I was trying to work out why that CTD'd without message whereas having pixels of extra colours (which is effectively what you get) in small area gives you a KTM with message. Just realised it is probably because you've got so many extra colours that it is reading as being over the 200 region limit....

Using the wrong re-size method also messes up the other files though normally with odd graphic effects rather than CTD - for ground_types you'll get lots of pink areas where colour is invalid, for climates you'll have default climate appearing where you have the unknown colour, map_heights you get odd 'mountains' around coast where you've merged land and sea.

[Makanyane]

hmmmpf - will test a bit more to define at some stage and add but -
CTD 2/3rds way along campaign loading bar
- caused by large mismatch between regions in descr_regions and
the ones listed in data/text/campaign_name_regions_and_settlements.txt (I think if you're only one region out you get an error message but will check that)

this can be caused, for instance, by using an old regions and settlements.txt file by mistake - making this mistake simultaneously with trying to move mod to new mod-folder can result in spending whole afternoon trying to work out why campaign won't load anymore......

[Warluster]

I don't know if you have this listed but:

WHen all the game runs perfectly (it loads,etc)

Then you go into the Imperial Campaign Menu, and press a faction, then press thje arrow, and it goes back to the Main Menu?

THat happens when you've modded/edited with one of the Data/World files, or when you've downloaded a mod which does.

This applies to RTW and M2TW