crashes when selecting a time period

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Patch 1.3

when choosing a time period to play game crashes to desktop all the time, it happens when it says
adapting history then crashes - can't get past this

 

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Is there any help here ???

 

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I'm using xp home professional

 

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here is rome setting

gui={
language=l_english
}
graphics={
size={
x=1280
y=800
}

refreshRate=60
fullScreen=no
shadows=no
shadowSize=1024
multisampling=2
anisotropicFiltering=0
gamma=43.000000
}
sound_fx_volume=0.000000
music_volume=0.000000
scroll_speed=94.000000
camera_rotation_speed=50.000000
zoom_speed=50.000000
mouse_speed=50.000000
master_volume=0.000000
ambient_volume=50.000000
mapRenderingOptions={
renderTrees=no
}
lastplayer="Mr Human"
lasthost=""
serveradress="diplomacy.valkyrienet.com"
autosave="HALFYEAR"
difficulty="NORMAL"
outliner={
9 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 10 }

 

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Funny I uninstalled and reinstall game works fine without patch 1.3 but once its patched to 1.3
same problem occurs

 

[AndrewT]

Well that's odd, we haven't seen that before. Maybe your download of 1.3 is bad, delete it and download a fresh copy and reinstall the game from scratch.

If that doesn't help try editing your settings.txt as follows:

graphics={
size={
x=1024
y=768
}

fullScreen=yes

multisampling=0

master_volume=-1

 

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It still does same thing while trying to load graphics it crashes to desktop saying RomeGame.exe encounter a problem and
then sends a report to microsoft. But you know whats funny after patching game to 1.3 the exe file and launcher still
show as version 1 so if I try to patch again it says patch already installed - is this the issue ????

 

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Really need help here - game does not work with patch 1.3 for me

 

[AndrewT]

In that case, you are installing the patch into the wrong place. Uninstall th egame again, and manually delete the game directory. Now install the game again but into a new directory such as c:\games\eu3 . Then apply the 1.3 patch and make sure you point the patch installer to that same new directory, so it overwrites the 1.0 files.

 

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Okay that work