debug

[odanobunaga]

I just bought total war eras and have recently been playing campaign mode. I play for a while, but then a window pops up with a debugging error and says I must close out. This is very frustrating because I normally have to start over. How can I prevent this from occurring?

[Drisos]

Saving a lot will of course prevent some of the harm. But there must be a better. I bet some people with knowledge on windows will be able to help you out.

Good luck!

[xonox]

It doesn't help saving. My game has the same problem, but after each time I load, it crashes exactly at the same point. So I have to restart the game, and it's really annoying.
I stopped playing because of it.

[TosaInu]

Hello,

Does it crash in the battles or on the campaignmap?

[odanobunaga]

It normally crashes in the campaign map, but I've never had it crash in game.

[TosaInu]

I had some crashes in battles, that had to do with videomemory iirc.

Does it crash for a specific factions turn? Does it crash for all the available campaigns?

[odanobunaga]

It crashes at specific times and when I save and restart, it does it at the same location.

[TosaInu]

Hello odanobunaga,

It's a standard/vanilla campaign or a custom one? Does it also happen when you play another vanilla campaign? It could be an error in the starpos file/or something in there that turns out to be an error for your PC.

[odanobunaga]

It's standard campaign, It happens with every faction I try, it also happens on medieval total war, but I've only tried one faction on that.

[TosaInu]

Hello OdaNobunaga,

MTW is doing that too? I doubt it's a problem with corrupt campaigns then. Graphics and sound are a suspect. What kind of graphics/sound card are you using?

[Puzz3D]

Nero 6 can cause the debug error. It appears to be caused by the version of the DivX codec used by Nero 6. Check out this thread: https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showthread.php?t=66964

Crashing on the campaign map can be caused by the audio codec. STW requires that Windows Media Player be the default codec used for mp3 sound files. I had problems with STW locking up, and I solved it by uninstalling the Ace MegaCodecs package which had changed the audio codec that Windows Media Player was using. https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showthread.php?t=68148

[caravel]

Puzz3D is right, if you have Nero 6 installed that is probably the problem. I posted up a fix for this somewhere if you search this forum you should find it. Also certain video card drivers can cause some unexpected CTDs. What are your system specs?

[odanobunaga]

Thanks for the help. It seems to be working fine now.

[TosaInu]

That's nice odanobunaga.