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geezer56	Re: Crash to Desktop	#121	[url]	[-]
Posts: 610 Jul 18 06 12:00 PM	"Now when i get home i will try mmoving this anti-aliasing thing to 2x." This shouldn't have any impact on your saved campaigns, other than (sometimes) less crashing.
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exilencfc	Re: Crash to Desktop	#122	[url]	[-]
Posts: 12 Jul 22 06 8:42 PM	I suspect what I need has already been covered but i'm completely untechnical so I'm going to ask anyway- sorry. Anyhow, my new laptop runs RomeTW fine with no problems, my Medieval TW game works fine on my Dad's PC so I conclude neither of them is fundamentally problematic. Unfortunately the two together has not been a success. I have installed MTW plus vikings on the laptop. It loads ok although not very smoothly. battles appear fine. I can get through the campaign selection screens fine but when it comes to actually load the game it doesn't- straight back to desk top. Now I confess I haven't tried re-installing yet but i have tried every combination of screen resoloution settings on offer to no good result (click test and I just get various shades of black and some interesting computer noises). have also tried changing computer's display settings to 640x800 and 16 colours as suggested in read me and re-installing direct x9.0 computer details: 80gb hard drive, 1024mb memory, os win xp, graphic nvidia geforcego 7300 cpu duo t2300. screen is currently set at 32 high colour 1280x800 pixels
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king of kings	Re: A new solution	#123	[url]	[-]
Posts: 1 Jul 23 06 10:39 AM	I tried everything on here to no avail. But then I remembered about a problem from the game TOCA race driver 2. (If you had a force feekback wheel, the game would sometimes stutter). I used the same technique for MTW. This solution at least solved my problem with the game crashing on the campaign map. What you have to do is start MTW. When you get to main menu, minimise the game. Then bring up task manager (ctrl + alt + delete). Click processes tab. Then right click on the MTW process and set priority to HIGH. Then you can close it and go back into game. (you have to do this every time you play MTW). Since doing this my game has worked perfectly. If this doesnt help I would also highly recommend defraging the disk. That helped me load some @#%$ saves.
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kaidonni	Re: Crash to Desktop	#124	[url]	[-]
Posts: 103 Aug 2 06 8:13 PM	I have a technical query. Got the Gold Edition, installed it, put the 2.01 .exe over the original .exe, started playing. Fine accessing the quick battle and campaign map. First tried a quick battle, then campaign, then quick battle. Fine. Until I tried the campaign map again. Then a CTD once the new campaign loads up. But, the map appeared. It did CTD a moment later. But I did get to the campaign map screen. Now, I was trying to find if the CTD issue happens on the computer I use...but, here is where I am not sure if this is actually it. The readme said that if I had installed DirectX, it is recommended to restart the computer. Not sure if this is incinuating that I had just installed DirectX...because that isn't the way things went. It is already installed. Heh...didn't do the reboot/restart, though. IN FACT...I even reloaded MTW after the first CTD, tried the campaign map, right clicked to bring the info on a unit up, and had a CTD. Rebooted the comp, tried campaign map, then quick battle, then campaign map...no issue. No CTD. Now, could it merely be because I didn't reboot after installation? Like the readme recommends? Or...one of the random CTD problems? I'm at a loss. I am even scared, because I hate CTDs. I'm no tech expert either. If it makes any difference, I also play Age Of Kings: Gold Edition and AOE Gold has run on the computer before too, recently. Heck, on an older graphics card now because the last one went, and AOE still worked on the more recent one that went ka-put. Not sure of the specs on the current card...HIGHTECH RADEON 9600XT, ATI. Using AMD drivers I believe. Also Windows XP. The About... dialogue says Version 5.1, have SP2. I haven't messed around anymore, set both camp and batt to 1280x1024. Thanks for any help/suggestions. I'm just hoping this was @#%$'s law. Or that it was because I didn't reboot/restart after installation. Or that it really was JUST a CTD that one would expect no matter what (RTW does it time to time...well, once...but you get the idea). Tried camp map at 800x600 and batt at 1024x780. TOUCH WOOD I tried loading quick batt and then new camp, tried loading saves, tried load saves (well...when I say saves...I mean just one test save) after starting quick batt then leaving...fine. TOUCH WOOD
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Mitter	Strange Crash	#125	[url]	[-]
Posts: 1 Aug 3 06 5:44 PM	I bought Medieval Total War Gold Edition in DVD format and I have a strange problem... when I start the game, the total war logo appears and when it vanishes, it crashes in a black and irritant black screen..... how can I fix it? i have a Riva TNT2 M64
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IanDC	Re: Crash to Desktop	#126	[url]	[-]
Posts: 1 Aug 4 06 5:33 PM	Mitter- I have the exact same problem. I have been working to fix it but to no avail. Any help would be awesome!
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Marcus Aurelius Antoninus	Re: Strange Crash	#127	[url]	[-]
Posts: 3 Aug 6 06 9:58 PM	I have the exact same problem as the two posters above. Just bought the game yesterday and have been trying pretty much anything to get it running but nothning seems to help. My last hope now stands to finding an old display driver for my ATI 9600 Pro and try to get around the problem that way. If it helps I will post about it here.
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bsmith284	Re: Crash to Desktop	#128	[url]	[-]
Posts: 1 Aug 8 06 4:40 PM	Yup me too. got gold addition and total war logo comes up and crashes to desktop really annoying. could anyone please help????????
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geezer56	Re: Strange Crash	#129	[url]	[-]
Posts: 610 Aug 8 06 11:04 PM	To Marcus Aurelius Antoninus: I had troubles with MTW and my Radeon 9800 Pro when trying newer ATI drivers. I had to roll back to the version 2.6.5.3 Omega drivers, which you can find in the archive here: www.omegadrivers.net/archive.php Those drivers have been extremely stable with MTW, and work well with many newer games as well, on my system.
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Miasmatic	Re: Strange Crash	#130	[url]	[-]
Posts: 5 Aug 9 06 6:23 AM	To geezer56: Thx, I will try that as soon as I get home from work. Meanwhile I installed my old original version of MTW and it ran perfectly on the same system that refused to run MTW Gold, which I find rather odd. Edit: This is Marcus Aurelius Antoninus btw, this is my global account.
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Navatar	Re: Strange Crash	#131	[url]	[-]
Posts: 1 Aug 11 06 1:45 AM	Hello gentlemen. I have tried most of the solutions posted here and only one has worked yet. Setting your antialiasing to 2X. But.... It doesn't crash but something very f-ed up happens instead. Everything...strecths..and the campaign map is distorted in some way. Here, it's easier to show you: img223.imageshack.us/my.p...tedjg0.jpg It doesn't go away when I zoom,restart,change resulution,tab....and if I shut down antialiasing it crashes always! I have narrow it down to couple of reason based upon the antialiasing solution/problem. 1. My graphic card (geforce4 Mx420...okay, I know, but I have played Medieval spotless before on this card) is too old and can't hold up the pressure. 2. My monitor (19inces monitor but the this is higly unlikely to be the problem) 3. There's a clash between my DirectX drivers and Medieval Right now I can't come up with more reasons. Any help from y'all will be highly appreciated. Thanks beforehand, Navatar.
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billy bob	Re: Strange Crash	#132	[url]	[-]
Posts: 14 Aug 11 06 3:56 PM	I have the load 'bug' where I try to start a new campaign, and when the bar reaches the end it crashes. I did the high priority thing and it just crashed halfway through.
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Jab0r	Re: Strange Crash	#133	[url]	[-]
Posts: 4 Aug 15 06 8:09 AM	Your anti-aliasing wouldn't still happen to be "application controlled" would it?
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gchewie	Re: Strange Crash	#134	[url]	[-]
Posts: 6 Aug 19 06 1:03 PM	Ok, bought Total War Eras. delighted with it all bar Medieval which I have yet to play. I select which side I want to be on and the era etc then hit start. Boom! Desktop here we come! Technically, here is the story: 2X 3Ghz Zeon Processors 2Mb memory 256Mb Nvdia 7300 GS PCI-E Can anyone help me? This makes no sense as Shogun, an older game works just fine as does Rome.
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the Stig	.	#135	[url]	[-]
Posts: 7326 Aug 19 06 1:37 PM	Post in support request m8, there you'll find better help, do also post your dxdiag, instructions found there.
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Jab0r	Re: Strange Crash	#136	[url]	[-]
Posts: 4 Aug 24 06 5:19 AM	Or read this thread in it's entirety and try the solutions rather than asking for someone to hand-walk you through it (sorry if that's not what you're asking)
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Wladyslaw I	Re: My fix	#137	[url]	[-]
Posts: 187 Aug 26 06 11:26 PM	Read my other post... Anisotropic Filtering goes to off. Anisotropic Optimization goes to off. Anisotropic Sample Optimization- also off. Anti Aliasing gets set to 4x. In game options can be set to whatever you want. Happy gaming
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fatmanmd	Cheers Granite - This works like a dream	#138	[url]	[-]
Posts: 1 Sep 2 06 1:31 AM
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Frankymole	Re: My fix	#139	[url]	[-]
Posts: 675 Sep 19 06 9:22 AM	I would be grateful for any help; a lot of people on the Guild - including me - are having crashes every single time and Early campaign reaches 1205. As soon as all the moves in 1204 are complete, and all the build/birth/event/vices banners have been clicked, jsut at the very point it should become 1205, it CTD's. Can anyone advise how to eedit the save game file to make the year 1206? I have the "Julien" date fix script which changes the year to 1454, but hwo can I make it 1206 instead?
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Komnenus34	Re: Crash	#140	[url]	[-]
Posts: 90 Sep 24 06 9:33 AM	Hello, I am having a crash to desktop problem appear at the exact same point every time. I come to year 1262 with the Byzantines, but can go no further because of the crash. First it was because I destroy the Italian fleet in one of the sections in the West. Med., but reverting and ordering the fleet to stand down didn't help-crash still occurs. I'm using NVIDIA GeForce4 MX 440 with AGP8X, driver is 5.6.7.3. Please help!
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