Medieval Total War

[Reven Darklite]

I just bought the game this morning and I've been trying to get it to run but i get the same crash to desktop after picking the campaign, country and then it starts to load the game and thats when it crashs.

So far I've tried changing details like

anisotropoc filtering to application controled, and I set it to X2, I've even tried turning it off
Antialiasing mode to application controlled
I've also turned vertical sync off.

As for changing the compatibility, it only has win 95, win 98/ME, Win NT and Win 2000. Windows XP doesn't show up as an option.

can anybody help me with this?

I've seen suggested that i get a copy of an old vid card drivers is this the only way to play it?

[Darkf0x]

What are your system specs?

Can you handle games above total war?

By crash you mean what? Blue screen, error message?

[Reven Darklite]

Sorry for not replying faster I hadn't realised this was a new thread and had bookmarked my reply to the old one.

Its a brand new machine, off the top of my head its a duel core 2.2gig, 8500 GT nvidia, 2 gig ram, the specs are really not the problem, unless they are too high, which doesn't make much sence because i installed shogun + expansion.

as for crashing, like i said as soon as it starts to load to the 2D map, i'd get a flash of the map and then it dumps me to desktop with no error message or anything. No blue screen or anything like that i can go off and do other stuff so the machine doesn't require a reboot or anything, I just get dumped to the desktop and thats it.

[1 g0t 0wn3d]

sounds like a driver issue try updating your sound and video drivers

[Darkf0x]

Sorry for the late reply mate so much work for college.

Anway, yeah your specs are above mine, and I can handle this game.

If it crashs and throws you to the desktop, it does the same thing to me but on bf2142, however mine was a simple delete registry matter...

Have you tried that? Cleaning your registry up...

If it is indeed driver based registry keys have a big part to play ...

So try something like "CC Cleaner" Get rid of false registry enteries and clean your system up.

If it still occurs I'd recommend taking it back to the store and ask for a test, or a new copy...

If you can install it on a friends computer see if it runs, theres no point in trouble shooting any problems if its the disk that is broken or missing files...

[Daen]

is there a patch or some location that allows a test run to see if the correct drivers are in place to run the game- my specs are sufficient to run the game so I too suspect a driver issue