Frustrating CTD

**Fool** · 01-09-2008, 00:20

Hmm, upon closer examination of my pcmon report of the load-CTD (without EB installed), I noticed that there were several files that were "NAME NOT FOUND" :

data/menu/buttons_composite2.tga.dds
data/menu/slider_composite.tga.dds
data/menu/slider_composite2.tga.dds
data/menu/border_4pix_black_gold2.tga.dds
data/menu/text_border.tga.dds
data/menu/yellow_highlight.tga.dds
data/menu/border_4pix_black_gold_selected.tga.dds
data/menu/border_4pix_black_gold_black.tga.dds
data/menu/unit_card.tga.dds
data/menu/icons.tga.dds

I have the regular ".tga" files, but what is this "tga.dds" business? Does anyone have/ know of these files?

I truly wonder how this came about, because like I said; before I installed EB, vanilla RTW was working fine. This is quite mysterious, I cannot beleive that these files suddenly vanished from my RTW CDs. Perhaps my installing of EB was some coincidence? Maybe the CDs became damaged between when I last used them, and when I went to play EB?

**bovi** · 01-09-2008, 09:49

The CD isn't used for anything else than checking that you've purchased the game, and it gets past that check before crashing. That .tga.dds business is okay, it will successfully failover to the .tga files.

You of course took a backup of the 1.5 vanilla installation, as suggested in the installation instructions? Please try to run that and see if the same problem happens there.

**Fool** · 01-09-2008, 20:54

No, I didn`t back up vanilla, because I`ve never heard of/ come across a problem that a simple uninstallation of the mod AND vanilla couldn't fix, this crash is occuring after I install a completely fresh copy of vanilla, which is why I was saying that maybe my CDs are damaged.
I may have now found the problem, after more scrutiny of my procmon report, I seem to be missing the ENTIRE "data/ui" file. I can't beleive I didn't see the massive list of "FILE PATH NOT FOUND" before this. Again, this is AFTER I have uninstalled vanilla and reinstalled it.

**Helgi** · 01-09-2008, 21:15

COuld it be a Vista issue, since yesterday been getting CTD's like crazy

**Fool** · 01-09-2008, 21:21

I have XP.

**Helgi** · 01-09-2008, 23:50

Yes I have on pc running XP, and a desktop that I inheireted that has vista(not happy with Vista and hope that EB knock's out a patch for Vista

**bovi** · 01-10-2008, 19:04

Vista does not behave reliably with EB. For most it works perfectly, while quite a few get problems with various weird crap the OS does (particularly if RTW is installed in the default location under program files!). At any rate, there is nothing we can do to "fix" the way Vista behaves in a patch.