Crash To Desktop

[Simon_P]

Hi, looks like a great mod and really wanna play it. I downloaded it and ran it and it worked fine but when I tried to do a custom battle, i selected the armies clicked start battle, but about halfway throught the loading bar it Crashed To Desktop and I dont know why. Any help will be greatly appreciated. THNX

Edit - Having tried to play with several armies it seems to be that its Orcs and Goblins that causes the crash to desktop, however i still dont know why. It may just be one specific unit that is causing it.
One further point is the Provincial Campaign. Is that supposed to be playable, as i click on 'the sundering' and then click start, but it just says 'please select an item from the list'.
Any help will be greatly appreciated.

[Marcus]

In your RTW shortcut, right click and select properties, then in the 'target' line, add a space and '-show_err' (without quotes) so it looks something like this:

"D:\Games\Activision\Rome - Total War\RomeTW.exe" -show_err

This brings up error messages when you crash, then you can tell us what they are (screenshots are preferable) and we can try to sort them. Note, you may have to crash twice before it starts showing anything.

[Simon_P]

Thanks for replying.
I put the show_err in and crashed the game but nothing came up. However, i then isolated the problem to the Orc Arrow Boys (listed in the game as an Orc Boyz unit but does missile damage). I custom battled each unit in the orc army, one at a time, and the only time it crashed was with the Orc Arrow Boys. I dont know what causes this but when i quit the game to post this reply, an error message appeared when i quit, saying;

Script Error in data/descr_rebel_factions.txt, at line 5, column 21.
rebel unit type 'barb peasant slave' not found in unit_db

I dont know what this means either, maybe has something to do with the Arrow Boys unit.
THNX

[Jubal]

The Arrer Boyz model is just screwed up. The rebel factions thing is irrelevant.

None of the campaign settings work, due to the fact that I never got a mapper who would make the campaign map for me sadly.

Hope you enjoy what there is of the mod, anyhow!

[Xanaq]

Hello. I just found this and am trying to play it.

After a while i managed to get it running, but when i finish chosing armies and goto start a custom battle it just crashes.

I`m running Vista and my shortcut is "C:\Program Files\The Creative Assembly\Rome - Total War\RomeTW.exe" -mod:WHTW -enable_editor -show_err

I hope you can help.

[Jubal]

Is your game patched to 1.5?

[Xanaq]

When i run game, and look in options it says ver 1.5

[Xanaq]

Update: It works fine when i do a custom battle of empire vs dwarfs, just won a small battle against dwarfs. First time i tried i attempted a 4 vs 4, just to see as many new things as possible. Are there problems with big battles or certain races?

[Xanaq]

Btw, the Reggae Giant is cool..nothing like giant in tabletop game, but hes good.

[Jubal]

Orc Arrer Boyz always cause a crash, beyond that I'm not certain.

[Xanaq]

maybe its orc gods telling us orcs meant for fighting, not shooting little arrows. lol

[Jubal]

Yea... one thing I never did get round to implementing was Boar Boyz, I should make a little addon pack with them in sometime.

[Xanaq]

If you do requests, i`ll request spider riders too, or would they not be possible?

Ive actually got Orcs & Goblins for the tabletop game.

[Jubal]

If only I could "do requests", ha.

I coded this mod myself, and did a good deal of the skinning; the actual models are just a beg, borrow (not steal) collection from whoever would donate them. You cannae get an 8-legged skeleton anyway, but nevertheless the fact remains that I can't model or map - those are the main reasons I'm not really working on WHTW these days.

[Xanaq]

One more little question.

Does the Hellcannon work? It didnt seem to do anything when i tried it.