What is wrong with castle sieges? Crashing too much.

[Zizo]

The game runs beautifully on ultra settings, at 11400F and 3070 at 1080p, battle limit 1000.
Ground fights without error, jam or crash. No problem at all :) That, however, cannot be said about the sieges of castles and cities.

I'm literally praying there, and it's downright a lottery whether the game crashes with an error message shortly after I climb the walls and start to fight. It is usually about 8 or 9 out of 10 sieges that the game crashes. Sometime a bit less, sometimes more.
What the hell is wrong there?

For a while I thought it was by setting in option: 75 fps (my monitor is 75hz) instead of 60 and V-sync to Full. After a crash, it automatically always changes to 60 and no v-sync. However, it does not help in either case, crash in both settings.

I'm using version 1.1.5 and I've reduced mods to an absolute minimum, I even tried turning off Diplomacy, which could be causing it, but it didn't help.
My mod list, updated to newest versions:
https://i.postimg.cc/d0FJ0gPB/screenshot-579.png
https://i.postimg.cc/C1P0m1ZP/screenshot-580.png
https://i.postimg.cc/br4hfB91/screenshot-581.png

So, I have to conquer the vast majority of cities and castles in one way: send troops. Instead of enjoying great battles. :/ Which is really not fun, but incredibly frustrating that the game has such fundamental problems at this point.
Thanks in advance for any advice.

[Khergit Horse Archer]

once you are modded, turning off mods will not save you from existing crash on an existing save with those mods. you will need to test a fresh save if you want to isolate the offending mod.

however, if the offending mod is a large/overhaul mod then your save is probably doomed to have that crash.

once you have found the offending mod, you can disable that mod and try loading that save and do sieges and see if it's any better.

[Zizo]

But if that was the problem, it would crash everytime, not only sometimes. And why ONLY during castle sieges?
As I google, the problem with crashing during castle sieges is not new, and definitely not only my problem:/

[Zizo]

And moreover there is a lot of ppl playing with muuuuch more mods, than I do, without so many crashes, at least it seems.

[Khergit Horse Archer]

idk if unmodded castle sieges causes crashes but intermittent crashes can still be attributed to mods, doesn't change anything.

also i don't play native at all so i can't comment on it

[SJWs R TRAITORS]

Try walking around a city, if you get crashes there too, then it's probably shader issue. Delete all the shaders and redownload.

[jordop]

Doesn't matter if people are playing with more mods if they are compatible and stable. If you mod be prepared to have issues. Different and incompatible versions, corrupted saves, bugs. All that outside the issues the game itself has. This has always been the case in pc gaming. Try the reinstall like the previous guy said and hope that fixes your problem. I've been playing a whole lot of vanilla lately and haven't had any crashes or bugs.

[Cantung]

I get a very random lighting-fast CTD after fighting a castle siege. It's not mods. I stopped using any mods and reinstalled the game.
To use mods with this game is a Grind on top of the game grind.

So yes O.P. the castle seige CTD is a nightmare. But posting it here will not help, venting frustration here is a waste of time, this is more for cosy chats or somthing.

[Clovis Sangrail]

Originally posted by Zizo:

What the hell is wrong there?

Got any mods?

Originally posted by Zizo:

I'm using version 1.1.5 and I've reduced mods to an absolute minimum, I even tried turning off Diplomacy, which could be causing it, but it didn't help.
My mod list, updated to newest versions:
https://i.postimg.cc/d0FJ0gPB/screenshot-579.png
https://i.postimg.cc/C1P0m1ZP/screenshot-580.png
https://i.postimg.cc/br4hfB91/screenshot-581.png

Well there you go.

Delete your mods completely. (Here's how to remove modification -- https://steamcommunity.com/app/261550/discussions/17/2968397584539744282/ )

Uninstall and reinstall your game.

Delete your save games because they are probably corrupted.

Then come back here and let us know if that worked.

[Zef]

Originally posted by Zizo:

But if that was the problem, it would crash everytime, not only sometimes. And why ONLY during castle sieges?
As I google, the problem with crashing during castle sieges is not new, and definitely not only my problem:/

Because sieges are the most taxing when it comes to resource load.

Have you tried if you can replicate the issue with lower battle size? The reason is because when you do a benchmark you can clearly see that there are more CPU spikes the higher battle size you go.

Try 600 or 800 and try a couple sieges.