
Originally Posted by
MichaelM
Have you tried the recommendations in
this post? It's at least a starting point.

Originally Posted by
adfs
Yes, tried in first time, no use.
The post from Stoertebecker that MichaelM linked here, was after the first try we did in the German forum: we played with 5 people the Napoleon's Ambitions campaign till 1819 and had just 1 CTD at startup.
The Windows compatibility settings described there really make the game much more stable - but in-game. They do not seem to help much about the start-CTD...
The second try, with up to 13 people, was frustrating - and at the end we gave up and started playing EU2 again.
But what we found out, I described in my post in the 1.3 thread:
Regarding the CTD on a start of a Multiplayer game in 1.2: in the German forum
http://www.si-games.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=22 we did some testing with 5 to 13 players and had some interesting findings, like that if we started the game just with people having up-to-speed hardware and really fast Internet connections - so the game would load and connect for all people at the same time - it would CTD much less. It did make us fell, like there would be a timeout of about 1-2 seconds happening, which causes the CTD.
My best guess is really, that there is a timeout happening, which brings the CTD... It would be much easier to debug this, if I'd have access to the source code
