I'm playing as the Romans and it's probably around 12 turns in or so (269 - also happened in 271; on Normal/Normal); however I've got a consistent problem which - based on the fact no one else is complaining about it - is probably somehow limited to my game...

The big thing: any battle involving a cityscape crashes mid-battle without fail. In this save ([which I can't post because all of my posts from the former forum are missing so I have a post count of 0...])I'm trying to siege Rhegion, but I've tried it with Segestica (you might be wondering how I took Tarentum/Taras...but some army came out of no where, attacking me away from the city and somehow I captured it anyway).

The crash is either a frozen image, or a loss of video signal (as in, my CPU is still on, but there's no image going to my monitor anymore), or occasionally returning to the desktop (which leads me to believe it might actually be a driver problem, so feel free to recommend a driver that works with EB and R:TW).

Generally it happens when I order one of my units to attack another unit (although I'm never really keeping track of which unit is actually causing the problem). Other notable crashes were: once when I was selecting 3 units (one each of hastati, pricepes and triarii, I think), once when I was changing the battle speed. Those are the only two crashes when I was initiating some sort of combat.

The timing seems to be completely random...some are right at the middle, one was when I was inside the walls fighting towards the town center.


Field battles went off without a hitch (in one I was going against the one Greek faction that holds Taras; the other was rebels from around Venice that ventured down towards Arminium).


Potentially useful information:
Windows XP
768mb or RAM
256mb ATi Radeon x700 pro (Omega 3.8.360 driver)
Athlon 2400+

fresh install of R:TW from 1.0 to 1.3 to 1.5
EB v1.0
(I also added those permanent fixes to no effect)
I've tried city battles 10+ times, some with background script, some without.


I'd really like to try out the mod to its full potential, but the prolonged start-ups coupled with the inability to play any battle involving a city pretty much cripples the experience and makes it unplayable. So, help would be appreciated.