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McSweeny
12-29-2004, 10:58 PM
I just picked up Medieval - Total War with the Viking expansion (for 19.99!) and when i go to load a campaign or the tutorial it will crash straight to my desktop with no error. It doesn't do it all the time, just enough to be very annoying. I've got it all patched up (the orig. and the expansion) and my video card drivers are up to date as well.

I couldn't seem to find anything that would help me over on the totalwar.com forums aside from dropping my resolution down to 800x600 which did not work. Any help would be great... i really want to get into this, but it's damn near impossible when half the time i load up a game it crashes to my desktop. Thanks
McSweeny
12-29-2004, 11:17 PM
dola

just crashed to the desktop again on me, except this time it was while i was playing, not while i was loading. I hope i can figure out some way to resolve this, because i'm enjoying it very much so far
stevew
12-29-2004, 11:30 PM
Did you logoff all the other user accounts on your machine, and close down any unnecessary background programs that were running? If windows ME is your operating system, its no wonder it wont work :).
McSweeny
12-29-2004, 11:46 PM
Did you logoff all the other user accounts on your machine, and close down any unnecessary background programs that were running? If windows ME is your operating system, its no wonder it wont work :).

i'm running XP

and of course i didn't shut down any background programs, nor did i turn of my anti-virus stuff. :D

seriously though, i'll give it a run in the morning with anti-virus off and i'll shut down some of the programs that could have been causing it some problems (itunes, opera, outlook, P2P stuffs, etc etc)
GoldenEagle
12-30-2004, 12:20 AM
How old is your monitor?
Shepp
12-30-2004, 07:14 AM
Make sure you have all of your driversand DirectX updated, and that you are running a current version media player. Both Medieval and Shogun were a major pain in the ass to get working for me.
McSweeny
12-30-2004, 10:59 AM
this is starting to drive me crazy. It crashes everytime i try to load my autosave. I've closed down every other program i was running and shut off my virus protection and it still won't work. I've got a fairly new 17 inch LCD monitor
jbmagic
12-30-2004, 11:29 AM
you have the latest directx and latest video driver?

and you update windows xp ?
Coffee Warlord
12-30-2004, 11:32 AM
Just to cover the Stupid Stuff.

You have patched the game itself, right?
McSweeny
12-30-2004, 12:26 PM
video driverse, directx and xp are all updated

so is the game itself

i was able to get it to load without crashing to the desktop by dropping my hardware acceleration settings down two notches, but it still seems prone to in game crashing when i do that
gstelmack
12-30-2004, 07:59 PM
Sound drivers updated? What video card, sound card do you have? What type of machine? More detailed system specs would help here.
McSweeny
12-31-2004, 10:36 AM
all my drivers are updated. I've got a GeForce FX 5500. Onboard Sound. I'm running a computer i put together myself. AMD Athlon 64 3000+ with a gig of RAM and i'm running XP SP2.

It's gotten a little better since i tweaked the in game graphic settings, but it still crashes too much to be playable
gstelmack
12-31-2004, 12:26 PM
If you're overclocking anything, stop and see if that helps. Otherwise you're looking at a conflict of some sort going on here.
gstelmack
12-31-2004, 12:27 PM
Oh, and just to cover all bases: ALL drivers includes your motherboard drivers as well, right?
McSweeny
12-31-2004, 12:43 PM
yeah motherboard drivers are updated as well. I've got my video card overclocked so i'll turn that off and see if it helps.
stevew
12-31-2004, 12:50 PM
Did you run any spyware removers? Always a possible culprit.
jbmagic
12-31-2004, 01:52 PM
tell us the order

how you are installing MTW and viking expansion and the patch
jbmagic
12-31-2004, 01:56 PM
just ran adaware and got rid of some spyware, haven't had a chance to try it out yet.

I installed MTW, then i installed the MTW patch. Then i installed the expansion. No patch needed for the expansion because my copy installs the latest version.

I'll be giving it a shot with the spyware gone and the overclocking stopped in a bit and i'll report back


there your mistake

do this unistall the whole game mtw and viking and delete the folder too..

then install in this order

MTW
Viking
Viking patch only
McSweeny
12-31-2004, 02:00 PM
just ran adaware and got rid of some spyware, haven't had a chance to try it out yet.

I installed MTW, then i installed the MTW patch. Then i installed the expansion. No patch needed for the expansion because my copy installs the latest version.

I'll be giving it a shot with the spyware gone and the overclocking stopped in a bit and i'll report back