BI.exe hording problems

**Makanyane** · 01-26-2008, 12:16

Have a look at this
https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showp...2&postcount=19

and if that fails the rest of that thread info should be in there somewhere.

Also are you doing this from a mod-folder? If you're not you may be having problem with it trying to use the packed version of the UI files, instead of the BI ones you've placed in folder.

**TruePraetorian** · 01-27-2008, 04:34

Test it in a bit, but will this explain the odd campaign loading problems?

Thanks BTW, and I like in your post how you "really would like to go to sleep now!"

EDIT: Tested it and it works, thanks.

**TruePraetorian** · 01-28-2008, 21:11

Sorry to re-introduce the topic:

After starting a succesful campaign (as Dacia), I played it for a good hour then quit. Starting it up a new campaign the next day (as Dacia), it didn't work and I got a CTD. I re-loaded the game and started as the romans, and it started just fine. I then quit out of that campaign and tried the dacians again, but it gave me a CTD. After about 3 hours of being puzzled, I deleted/modified every file I touched back to they way it was, exactly; Still no campaign. I then deleted my UI folder and copied in a fresh one, adding in the necessary hording files. Voila, worked like a charm. Feeling superstitous, I quit the new Gaulic campaign, and tried to start a new one. CTD. I again fixed every file and re-copied the UI, started a campaign, quit, and started a new one just to check for similiar results, and that is what I got. (A CTD)

The problem is that if I re-do my whole UI, then start a campaign, it's a one-shot thing and then I have to redo everything which takes a good 10 minutes. I have been deleting map.rwm files to see, but nothing has changed my results. Anyone else experience this oddity? Note my first posts where I had similiar problems. Mak showed me a post of hers which solved it, it had to do with the settlement razed event. With that fixed, it is basically the same issue I had before with it loading once and then CTDing whenever I play a hording faction. I can start up greeks, romans, etc. just fine.

Please don't think I'm just asking without trying myself, I've been at this for the better part of two days now

. Thanks in advance.

EDIT: First campaign was Dacia, second and then on was Gaul.

**Makanyane** · 01-28-2008, 21:28

I don't think you ever answered if you were using mod-folder? Are you?

I still had question I wasn't sure about - whether RTW would read the UI files properly from main RTW/data folder or whether that would get it confused with the packs - there was some problem with roman UI not getting read if you tried just placing it in RTW/data/ui, but it seemed to work from mod-folder.

Otherwise maybe to do with what RedSpot mentioned about Senate, there was also something he posted here
https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showp...4&postcount=22
about not having horde nation in roman culture and superfaction in use.

**TruePraetorian** · 01-28-2008, 23:51

Sorry, forgot you asked...yes I am using a mod folder. I don't see how the problem is coming from anything roman, considering i haven't touched them, care to explain the relation you speak of?

**Red Spot** · 01-29-2008, 11:52

the game is based around the Romans, the game defaults in some cases to reading the Roman labelled folders, so even if you dont use Romans if you mod-folder stuff you pretty much are required to set them up to an extend ... afaik as I havent "mod-foldered" yet ...

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**TruePraetorian** · 01-29-2008, 16:53

Ah, makes sense, but the only problem is even if it did default to the Romans, I have the needed INTERFACE files in both ui/barbarian/interface and ui/roman/interface. The files are battlepage_03 and startpage_03. When I was adding hording, it didn't make sense for those files to be only in Roman interface, so I added them to the barbarian one as well (created an interface folder as it wasn't there originally). Do you maybe think that was the cause of it? Either the game is confusing itself, or I possible have to add all the interface files not specifically roman to the barbarian/interface.

I'm not home now so I can't test it, otherwise I wouldn't burden you with my questions

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