Battles Causing Game Crashes (Third Age)

[Major Malice]

So it seems that every time I am fighting a battle (not auto resolving), the game is fine for the first part of the battle up untill combat actually begins which results in a crash with the dialog box of "Total War: Medieval War II has experianced an unexpected error and will now exit" (I am paraphrasing as I do not have the text box infront of me right this second.

I had similar problems in the vanilla version from what I recall. Any ideas?

[Tacticus Winter]

Ok, this may seem weird, but make sure you have "Automatic daylight savings change" flicked off in your time settings.

If you have that ticked off, then are you using any "large" units like spiders or trolls?

Also, a possible fix is to turn down both vegetation and grass, as well as shadows in the graphics settings.

[Major Malice]

There are no options for "Automatic Daylight Savings Change" in the options of the game. Are you talking about a setting on the computer? Also, I tried turning down Vegetation and grass, along with shadows to "low" and that did not work. As for the hwole large units deal, I am only fighting bandits at the momment.

[Bush Kebop]

Originally posted by Major Malice:

There are no options for "Automatic Daylight Savings Change" in the options of the game. Are you talking about a setting on the computer? Also, I tried turning down Vegetation and grass, along with shadows to "low" and that did not work. As for the hwole large units deal, I am only fighting bandits at the momment.

Well if that didn't work, try looking for patches on TWcenter.

[Major Malice]

Originally posted by Tricorn:

Originally posted by Major Malice:

There are no options for "Automatic Daylight Savings Change" in the options of the game. Are you talking about a setting on the computer? Also, I tried turning down Vegetation and grass, along with shadows to "low" and that did not work. As for the hwole large units deal, I am only fighting bandits at the momment.

Well if that didn't work, try looking for patches on TWcenter.

I just might do that. It's the weirdest deal. Recently I have had three battles go without any errors but the fourth one (which was about the same size as the others) I had another crash only it froze rather than bring up an error window.

[Bush Kebop]

Originally posted by Major Malice:

Originally posted by Tricorn:

Well if that didn't work, try looking for patches on TWcenter.

I just might do that. It's the weirdest deal. Recently I have had three battles go without any errors but the fourth one (which was about the same size as the others) I had another crash only it froze rather than bring up an error window.

Well I know for a fact that you're far from being alone with this problem. Me and my mates had it too, it was quite random so... we simply stopped playing... (stainless steel so much better) anyway didnt look for it but there must be a patch or some fix...

[Tacticus Winter]

Originally posted by Major Malice:

There are no options for "Automatic Daylight Savings Change" in the options of the game. Are you talking about a setting on the computer? Also, I tried turning down Vegetation and grass, along with shadows to "low" and that did not work. As for the hwole large units deal, I am only fighting bandits at the momment.

Yes, the setting on the computer. It's pretty much required to turn that off.

Other than that, I don't quite know. Consider turning down the Unit Detail and Building Detail.

Also, are you fighting in one of the Arthedain settlements? Those can cause crashes.

[Major Malice]

I think the Dwarf axe throwers are bugged since it seems any fight I have that involves them crashes the game as soon as they go to fire their first volley.

[Tacticus Winter]

Originally posted by Major Malice:

I think the Dwarf axe throwers are bugged since it seems any fight I have that involves them crashes the game as soon as they go to fire their first volley.

There is a fix for that.

Not sure where a recent one is, but just look on twcenter

[Major Malice]

Managed to get the problem fixed with the Axe Throwers. I think that was the major problem I was facing. Anyway, to anyone else experiancing this issue, I used this guide for fixing it pretty much. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HiTSlVMfbus

[Inardesco]

Originally posted by Major Malice:

There are no options for "Automatic Daylight Savings Change" in the options of the game. Are you talking about a setting on the computer? Also, I tried turning down Vegetation and grass, along with shadows to "low" and that did not work. As for the hwole large units deal, I am only fighting bandits at the momment.

Daylight Savings isn't an in-game option, it's a windows option. Personally, my TATW tended to crash alot when I played on a map with water.

Unfortunately, many battle crash to desktop issues with TATW are mainly the fault of the modders in the way they handled certain files. So theres not much you can do but hope for having a stable battle or to auto-resolve the battle if it's constant.