Medieval Total War error-suffered a fatal error and will now exit

[Nanase Sena]

Every time I start Medieval Total War it just says "suffered a fatal error and will now exit". I played it before, but when I tried download Third Age it started happening. I have uninstalled everything, all my Total war games just in case, but only the Medieval doesn't work. I have Shogun and Napoleon and they both work. I have even installed the new launch on other threads but it still says the same thing.
Please someone help me, its a fun game I want to start playing it again :)

[Captain_Jozef]

Are you sure your launch options are correct? By that I mean the option you see when you right-click Medieval 2 in your library, select Properties and your see something like "Select Launch Options." It causes a fatal error if that line is not blank.

[Nanase Sena]

OMG, it was so simple, I cant believe i didnt have to wait 4 hours of waiting to do this.
thanks for telling me. It helped a lot, now I can go back to play this awesome game

[Captain_Jozef]

No problem.

[youlendile]

I know this is a long time ago so hoping someone will see this but i'm having the exact same problem - what should the launch options be?

[Captain_Jozef]

The launch options should be blank. Nothing should be written there. That helped this guy out, and I hope it helps you!

[grudelich51]

I am having the same issue. I checked the launch options and they are blank. Any help?

[Captain_Jozef]

Are you trying to play a mod or the vanilla game?

[grudelich51]

I fixed it. Thanks, though.

[Captain_Jozef]

Maybe you could explain how you fixed it, so that any future people will have a solution.

[Unity]

Maybe the below suggestions work for you?

https://steamcommunity.com/app/4700/discussions/0/540736965698058585/
https://steamcommunity.com/app/4700/discussions/0/540738051461534166/

[grudelich51]

Originally posted by Captain_Jozef:

Maybe you could explain how you fixed it, so that any future people will have a solution.

My computer failed to automatically update after the original download. After I opened the properties and verified the game cache, it all sorted itself out. I feel like a noob for not having checked that before posting my issue. BUT that's what worked for me, and it was a simple fix.

[Captain_Jozef]

Yeah, verifying the game cache is the first step with almost every problem I have with Medieval 2, or any steam game for that matter.

[youlendile]

i had installed to the wrong location so it couldn't find the data. I unistalled and then reinstalled to the right location and it all worked.

[𝙉𝙖𝙧𝙠𝙤𝙡𝙤𝙜]

i played for 2 weeks , and yesterday i set launch to -console, but i played the game offline so it updated 5min ago when i had conection and had same error, i removed set launch option as you said , Thanks ;) just want you let you know it still worked

[3284alexander]

OMyyyygaaaad thanks @Captain_Jozef ive been trying for 4 hours now to play the third age mod installing and deleting iit, trying to detect my mistake and it was this simple!!

Originally posted by Nanase Sena:

OMG, it was so simple, I cant believe i didnt have to wait 4 hours of waiting to do this.
thanks for telling me. It helped a lot, now I can go back to play this awesome game