Napoleon TW; starting crash fixed

[Tamerlane]

I hope this note helps someone else fix this annoying problem easily.

Napoleon: Total War would crash while loading a campaign after the Campaign choice page, with two separate crash errors in succession.

The game literally suddenly stopped working for me yesterday, but I got it working again today, after many, many hours of trying.
It seems like I tried many solutions suggested for Napoleon: TW and other crashing Steam games here and online on the web and at some Youtube channels.

What finally worked for me was this;
I backed up my saved_games at \user\YourName\AppData\Roaming\The Creative Assembly\Napoleon, to another separate drive, then I deleted the complete Napoleon folder (which included the original saved_games folder).
After this, I restarted the game and it worked.
I then copied my saved_games folder from the other drive back to \user\YourName\AppData\Roaming\The Creative Assembly\Napoleon and now I have all my saved games working.

The other things I tried that didn't immediately work but may have contributed to my success were giving the Napoleon.exe Administrator privileges, setting the compatibility to Windows 7, going to C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Napoleon Total War\redist and double-clicking vcredist to reset it. I also did the same with DXSETUP to reset it (in the DirectX folder). I also flushed the Steam cache, and uninstalled and reinstalled Napoleon: TW and Steam a number of times, verified the integrity of the game files, and set preferences via the preferences file to 1920x1080 (line 2 and 3).
But I think the process first detailed above may be the optimal solution.

See you in MP campaign mode some time soon.

[michaelllenos]

I'm playing Darthmod & every time I take a certain Austrian Town on the first campaign map the game just quits completely. I was used to Napoleon Total War being a completely crash free Total War product, but I don't know now.

[michaelllenos]

No crashes happened tonight. Maybe because I started Napoleon TW by via inside STEAM.

[michaelllenos]

This is what I've discovered. Darthmod for NTW must be started from inside the STEAM website for it to work properly. If you have one internal Wi-fi connector & the ROUTER cancels, your game will quit back to STEAM. However, if you have also a USB Wi-fi device, you can plug that one in and make it so both the internal Wi-fi and the USB Wi-fi device are both connected & working with the same ROUTER. Then I believe your game will not quit. Plus, download time of games in your library, or those newly purchased will be a lot quicker.