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Heyaz,
I was one of the unlucky few(many?) unable to proceed in CtW when I attacked a territory in turn 1. It would get to some point in the loading, usually "placing leaders and starting locations" or some such thing, and blam exception, CtD. So I tried every last fix on this site as well as the support page, to no avail. I then relented and played a quick battle for an hour or so, quit that, then before exiting RoN tried a CtW again, and made it into the RTS battle stage, no CtD!. Well, not the first turn anyway; I couldn't attack Mesopotamia w/o crashing in turn 2, but I could attack further south on the Arabian peninsula. So, I don't know how many turns I will be able to play into this, and any stradegy I would want to employ is hindered, but still worth it until a comprehensive fix in a patch is released.
So I thought I would pass this along to those of you still trying to get into CtW, which is why I bought this game to begin with. I don't know which of these in particular was required, if not all. I updated my video driver, updated DirectX to 9.0a, changed my color resolution from 32 to 16 bit, modded the rise2.ini and that video text file (based on that post here somewhere), and then clean booted using msconfig (as clean as possible). As I said, still no luck until I played a quick battle before started CtW. I just play into the QB for a few seconds now. Hope that helps get people a few turns or more into CtW or maybe help my fellow programmers nail this bug down.
Szethe
I was one of the unlucky few(many?) unable to proceed in CtW when I attacked a territory in turn 1. It would get to some point in the loading, usually "placing leaders and starting locations" or some such thing, and blam exception, CtD. So I tried every last fix on this site as well as the support page, to no avail. I then relented and played a quick battle for an hour or so, quit that, then before exiting RoN tried a CtW again, and made it into the RTS battle stage, no CtD!. Well, not the first turn anyway; I couldn't attack Mesopotamia w/o crashing in turn 2, but I could attack further south on the Arabian peninsula. So, I don't know how many turns I will be able to play into this, and any stradegy I would want to employ is hindered, but still worth it until a comprehensive fix in a patch is released.
So I thought I would pass this along to those of you still trying to get into CtW, which is why I bought this game to begin with. I don't know which of these in particular was required, if not all. I updated my video driver, updated DirectX to 9.0a, changed my color resolution from 32 to 16 bit, modded the rise2.ini and that video text file (based on that post here somewhere), and then clean booted using msconfig (as clean as possible). As I said, still no luck until I played a quick battle before started CtW. I just play into the QB for a few seconds now. Hope that helps get people a few turns or more into CtW or maybe help my fellow programmers nail this bug down.
Szethe
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