How do I install that 4GB patch thing to make crashes stop occuring

[Chicken Jockey]

Vanilla runs fine. Kingdoms and Third Age crash occasionally, and it seems to be due to the fact that I'm playing on such modern hardware.

I heard about some sort of patch you can install that basically puts a limit on your system so it doesn't crap out. How do I do that?

[Pira]

download it and just patch the exe

[Chicken Jockey]

Originally posted by Pira:

download it and just patch the exe

How do I patch it?

[Pira]

run the patcher? just download it and run it and patch all the EXE's in the main folder, it should say "executable successfully patched!"

[Chicken Jockey]

Originally posted by Pira:

run the patcher? just download it and run it and patch all the EXE's in the main folder, it should say "executable successfully patched!"

How do I patch EXEs once I've downloaded and done it, explain it to me like I'm the high school jock who's friend built him a gaming PC.

[Chicken Jockey]

Originally posted by Pira:

run the patcher? just download it and run it and patch all the EXE's in the main folder, it should say "executable successfully patched!"

Actually wait. So I downloaded it, Ran it, found Medieval2 in the medieval 2 folder in steamapps and clicked on it, and it said executable successfully patched, is that it?

[Gigantus]

The download link for it underneath has an instruction that couldn't be simpler:

"It can be used by clicking on it (the application, Gig) and choosing the file"

https://ntcore.com/?page_id=371

Originally posted by Ewoks on Crack:

is that it?

Yup, that's it - easy, right? Now patch kingdoms.exe as well if you have already created it. Or use my guide to create it from your patched medieval2 file (lots of mods use that file, not medieval2):

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=859017394

[Chicken Jockey]

Originally posted by Gigantus:

The download link for it underneath has an instruction that couldn't be simpler:

"It can be used by clicking on it (the application, Gig) and choosing the file"

https://ntcore.com/?page_id=371

Originally posted by Ewoks on Crack:

is that it?

Yup, that's it - easy, right? Now patch kingdoms.exe as well if you have already created it. Or use my guide to create it from your patched medieval2 file (lots of mods use that file, not medieval2):

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=859017394

I patched "Medieval2" under the folder, and it seems to have done it for everything, including kingdoms and mods, so I'm not getting crashes anymore on mods or kingdoms as of now. (CA really should have came out with some sort of major patch for this by now, or at least remaster the game.)

[Gigantus]

If you only patched medieval2 then you will be fine for the main game and the DLCs. Unless mods use the universal batch file of mine which uses medieval2 when running steam and kingdoms when running disk you may find yourself looking at teh same performance issue again unless you patch kingdoms.exe as well.

[Chicken Jockey]

Originally posted by Gigantus:

If you only patched medieval2 then you will be fine for the main game and the DLCs. Unless mods use the universal batch file of mine which uses medieval2 when running steam and kingdoms when running disk you may find yourself looking at teh same performance issue again unless you patch kingdoms.exe as well.

I'm running the Steam version of Medieval 2. Where would I find the kingdoms.exe file?

[Gigantus]

Originally posted by Ewoks on Crack:

I'm running the Steam version of Medieval 2. Where would I find the kingdoms.exe file?

See my 'starting M2TW mods...' guide a bit further up. It comes with an app that does the copy\rename process for you to create the kingdoms.exe file.

[Chicken Jockey]

Originally posted by Gigantus:

Originally posted by Ewoks on Crack:

I'm running the Steam version of Medieval 2. Where would I find the kingdoms.exe file?

See my 'starting M2TW mods...' guide a bit further up. It comes with an app that does the copy\rename process for you to create the kingdoms.exe file.

I did that, and ran the 4gb patch on the newly created kingdoms.exe, should I now move that to the mods folder?

[Gigantus]

Nope, the executable files need to remain in the main directory. Mods have batch (BAT) files that 'call' these executable files from the mod directory.