Campaign Keeps Crashing

[cheeksclapalot]

for some reason every time i try to load into the vanilla campaign or RotS it loads halfway and crashes with no notification does anyone have a solution?

[YaFilthy]

i had a lot of issuse crashing with dx11 on my intel igpu and ran the game for a montth on dx 9 low. The only issuse i had with dx9 was not being able to alt tab on windows 11. Once i solved the crashing issuses I switched over to dx11 and bumped a few graphics settings and hardly get any crashes. Id assume its a a driver issuse, hardware limitation, or your install somehow corrupted.

moreover, id make sure your graphic settings are not to much... But also you didnt give much info try your full dxdiag info with post make sure to do it with the game running usually if the game is swapping to page file your more likely to get a random crashes which can cause install corruption during saves and AI turns. If u manual edited config files can be an issuse... when it comes to graphic settings the game responds the best to using the settings menu on the main menu then restarting the game client.

The game uses scripts for some things and if youve been experiencing crashes like during auto saves some of the .config files might go bad for w/e reason windows gets pretty buggy when crashes happen. You can check something like AppData / Roaming if your familiar with windows hidden files etc for a deeper clean, or something like missing .net legacy packages... id recommend just doing a uninstall then reinstall and keep it vanilla it should load up after with default graphic settings but lower might be better with just nice textures and a few extra eye candy's then limit the UNIT size to something smaller depending on your CPU & Ram Config.

[RagingRapt0r]

I've got the same issue here. I've just installed Shogun 2 from Steam, the game logs in but when I try to start a new campaign after some loading time, the game crashes and I'm back to my desktop. No error message, no freeze, the game just shuts down. I don't have any mods (I never had for Shogun 2) and I've tried re-installing several times but it didn't help. Any suggestions?

[StrongSuit]

Backstory for my issues at the top. Solution at the Bottom.

Backstory: I recently had the same issue, and this was due in fact to previously having a mod installed before the recent update to the game itself where the mod manager was removed. I had removed the files for the mod to update it, and reinstalled a new update ensuring to remove all of the old files. Unfortunately do to the loss of the Mod Manager, I was unable to deselect the mod from the game itself, causing it to try to start the game with the mod I had removed completely; resulting in the game loading halfway and then crashing.

Solution: I had to go to "File Explorer", go to the top and select "View", then "Show", and ensure "Hidden Items" is selected to show. (Easy File Path At Bottom) Afterwards you will have to go to your main drive, mine being "OS (C:)", the "Users", select you "Your Username" (Being the account you signed in as), "AppData" should now be showing (As it is a hidden file), then "Roaming", then go to "The Creative Assembly", "Shogun2", "scripts", then find a file name "user.script". You will have to open that file and ensure it is completely empty, and then save the file once it is all cleared.

File Path: C:\Users\[Your user name]\AppData\Roaming\The Creative Assembly\Shogun2\scripts

Hopefully this helps.

[Lil Bunny]

Originally posted by StrongSuit:

Backstory for my issues at the top. Solution at the Bottom.

Backstory: I recently had the same issue, and this was due in fact to previously having a mod installed before the recent update to the game itself where the mod manager was removed. I had removed the files for the mod to update it, and reinstalled a new update ensuring to remove all of the old files. Unfortunately do to the loss of the Mod Manager, I was unable to deselect the mod from the game itself, causing it to try to start the game with the mod I had removed completely; resulting in the game loading halfway and then crashing.

Solution: I had to go to "File Explorer", go to the top and select "View", then "Show", and ensure "Hidden Items" is selected to show. (Easy File Path At Bottom) Afterwards you will have to go to your main drive, mine being "OS (C:)", the "Users", select you "Your Username" (Being the account you signed in as), "AppData" should now be showing (As it is a hidden file), then "Roaming", then go to "The Creative Assembly", "Shogun2", "scripts", then find a file name "user.script". You will have to open that file and ensure it is completely empty, and then save the file once it is all cleared.

File Path: C:\Users\[Your user name]\AppData\Roaming\The Creative Assembly\Shogun2\scripts

Hopefully this helps.

Can confirm it works.

My issues before: Cannot start a FoTS campaign (it crashes) -> Cleared all my mods -> still can't start -> searched the net to find solution -> saw the "revert to pre-linux..." stuff thingy in the beta option under properties -> still can't start -> DID THE THING ABOVE AS INDICATED -> got it running.

*I didn't notice before but it seems like my sounds were also bugged before it was fixed as I did not have any kind of background music in the main menu/intro video when you start the game.
**Also if anyone's having a hard time trying to find the appdata folder you can simply type "run" in windows search bar and open that app then type "%appdata%". That will immediately bring you to the roaming sub folder.

[guason233]

Originally posted by StrongSuit:

Backstory for my issues at the top. Solution at the Bottom.

Backstory: I recently had the same issue, and this was due in fact to previously having a mod installed before the recent update to the game itself where the mod manager was removed. I had removed the files for the mod to update it, and reinstalled a new update ensuring to remove all of the old files. Unfortunately do to the loss of the Mod Manager, I was unable to deselect the mod from the game itself, causing it to try to start the game with the mod I had removed completely; resulting in the game loading halfway and then crashing.

Solution: I had to go to "File Explorer", go to the top and select "View", then "Show", and ensure "Hidden Items" is selected to show. (Easy File Path At Bottom) Afterwards you will have to go to your main drive, mine being "OS (C:)", the "Users", select you "Your Username" (Being the account you signed in as), "AppData" should now be showing (As it is a hidden file), then "Roaming", then go to "The Creative Assembly", "Shogun2", "scripts", then find a file name "user.script". You will have to open that file and ensure it is completely empty, and then save the file once it is all cleared.

File Path: C:\Users\[Your user name]\AppData\Roaming\The Creative Assembly\Shogun2\scripts

Hopefully this helps.

*Confirmed*

Vanilla, FoTs and RoTS work after doing this. Mods also work! Playing on Win 11 with a 1060Ti. Hope this works for everyone else too.

[Ziggy]

Originally posted by StrongSuit:

Backstory for my issues at the top. Solution at the Bottom.

Backstory: I recently had the same issue, and this was due in fact to previously having a mod installed before the recent update to the game itself where the mod manager was removed. I had removed the files for the mod to update it, and reinstalled a new update ensuring to remove all of the old files. Unfortunately do to the loss of the Mod Manager, I was unable to deselect the mod from the game itself, causing it to try to start the game with the mod I had removed completely; resulting in the game loading halfway and then crashing.

Solution: I had to go to "File Explorer", go to the top and select "View", then "Show", and ensure "Hidden Items" is selected to show. (Easy File Path At Bottom) Afterwards you will have to go to your main drive, mine being "OS (C:)", the "Users", select you "Your Username" (Being the account you signed in as), "AppData" should now be showing (As it is a hidden file), then "Roaming", then go to "The Creative Assembly", "Shogun2", "scripts", then find a file name "user.script". You will have to open that file and ensure it is completely empty, and then save the file once it is all cleared.

File Path: C:\Users\[Your user name]\AppData\Roaming\The Creative Assembly\Shogun2\scripts

Hopefully this helps.

You Sir are a legend! Thank you for this fix. I hope more people will find this tread when needed

[Knowledge Keeper]

Originally posted by StrongSuit:

Backstory for my issues at the top. Solution at the Bottom.

Backstory: I recently had the same issue, and this was due in fact to previously having a mod installed before the recent update to the game itself where the mod manager was removed. I had removed the files for the mod to update it, and reinstalled a new update ensuring to remove all of the old files. Unfortunately do to the loss of the Mod Manager, I was unable to deselect the mod from the game itself, causing it to try to start the game with the mod I had removed completely; resulting in the game loading halfway and then crashing.

Solution: I had to go to "File Explorer", go to the top and select "View", then "Show", and ensure "Hidden Items" is selected to show. (Easy File Path At Bottom) Afterwards you will have to go to your main drive, mine being "OS (C:)", the "Users", select you "Your Username" (Being the account you signed in as), "AppData" should now be showing (As it is a hidden file), then "Roaming", then go to "The Creative Assembly", "Shogun2", "scripts", then find a file name "user.script". You will have to open that file and ensure it is completely empty, and then save the file once it is all cleared.

File Path: C:\Users\[Your user name]\AppData\Roaming\The Creative Assembly\Shogun2\scripts

Hopefully this helps.

My DX11 doesn't work anymore nor does my DX9

[ddrx33]

Sooo What is the solution for MacOS? there is no "C" folder in MacOS. Also I couldnt find any "Roaming", "The Creative Assembly" folders as well and there was no "user.script". Maybe my bad... Can you share solution for MacOS?

[Tsigouinos]

My friend u did it. IT WORKS. I can finally get back to the game. U re F**king amazing. Huge thanks.

[Austere Hare]

this folder doesnt exist on mac

[the_mixmaster]

This works for Mac too! My game was constantly crashing after every battle - for Mac "~/Library/Applications Support/Feral Interactive/Shogun 2/App Data/scripts

I then had to change user.script to .txt and then cleared the text and saved - games running as if brand new now. Thank you!

[colbs]

Originally posted by StrongSuit:

Backstory for my issues at the top. Solution at the Bottom.

Backstory: I recently had the same issue, and this was due in fact to previously having a mod installed before the recent update to the game itself where the mod manager was removed. I had removed the files for the mod to update it, and reinstalled a new update ensuring to remove all of the old files. Unfortunately do to the loss of the Mod Manager, I was unable to deselect the mod from the game itself, causing it to try to start the game with the mod I had removed completely; resulting in the game loading halfway and then crashing.

Solution: I had to go to "File Explorer", go to the top and select "View", then "Show", and ensure "Hidden Items" is selected to show. (Easy File Path At Bottom) Afterwards you will have to go to your main drive, mine being "OS (C:)", the "Users", select you "Your Username" (Being the account you signed in as), "AppData" should now be showing (As it is a hidden file), then "Roaming", then go to "The Creative Assembly", "Shogun2", "scripts", then find a file name "user.script". You will have to open that file and ensure it is completely empty, and then save the file once it is all cleared.

File Path: C:\Users\[Your user name]\AppData\Roaming\The Creative Assembly\Shogun2\scripts

Hopefully this helps.

This man is a legend! Can confirm this works!

[Hostilian]

Who mods this forum? Don't tell me it's CA?

Reason I ask is that this problem/solution has been posted, requested, re-posted etc many times now.

I don't know why people can't search - and perhaps the solutions for PC/MAC etc could be pinned to the top of the forum (unless it's CA then probably no chance)??

[the_mixmaster]

Never mind - games back to crashing now

[StrongSuit]

Originally posted by Berlin:

My DX11 doesn't work anymore nor does my DX9

Can you give me a little more to work on? Like what exactly did you do? Or what happens when you try loading in?