Why does this game crash so much!?

[Yorudan]

Can someone please explain to me why this game crashes so much.

Since the game takes so long to load up it is very annoying when the game crashes so often. I have honestly never experienced any game have problems like this. I am running it on a VISTA system if that helps anyone explain.

 

[Emperor Leo]

I'm not sure why your game takes so long to load up. My Rome takes about 30 seconds to get from desktop to the main menu. Are you playing basic Rome or are you using Vae Victus? What patch are you using? Are all your drivers up to date?

Unfortunately, you will need to provide a lot more information, other than that you're playing a version of Rome on Vista. I suggest you register your game and place a detailed post in the Tech Support forum.

 

[unmerged(94161)]

What's your videocard? Low VRAM will cause long load times, and I'd imagine it'd make the game crash a lot too. EU3 had similar issues.

I never really had the frequent crashes, though.

 

[Yorudan]

I know the information I provided I was sparse, but I was expecting it to be that the game is well known for its crashes, so I didn't think anymore information would be needed.

I am running VAE VICTUS with the newest patch. I can run M:TW2 and even Empire: Total War on my laptop elbeit the settings being set to low yet I think I only ever had one crash with that game and that was when that game was infamous for its crashes during it's first few patches. As I said I have never experienced so many crashes which made me think that it has to be the game.

My video card is NVIDIA 9300M GS, and I have 3GB DDR2 RAM. The section of loading that seems to take an unaturally long time is the loading screen where it says it is generating trees etc and shows different Rome themed pictures as the background.

 

[Emperor Leo]

I am running VAE VICTUS with the newest patch. I can run M:TW2 and even Empire: Total War on my laptop elbeit the settings being set to low yet I think I only ever had one crash with that game and that was when that game was infamous for its crashes during it's first few patches. As I said I have never experienced so many crashes which made me think that it has to be the game.

With the Total War series being completely different games, there isn't much to be gained from making a comparison to EU Rome. I'm also running Rome Vae Victus with the latest patch and I experience hardly any crashes. I might have the odd one every now and then, but they're easily solved (usually a well known bug). I think it's more likely to be your system rather than the game. I'm not saying you have a bad system, just that there might be some compatability issues. Like I say, register your games and post your crash information in the Tech Support forum, where someone more experienced can assist.

 

[Yorudan]

With the Total War series being completely different games, there isn't much to be gained from making a comparison to EU Rome. I'm also running Rome Vae Victus with the latest patch and I experience hardly any crashes. I might have the odd one every now and then, but they're easily solved (usually a well known bug). I think it's more likely to be your system rather than the game. I'm not saying you have a bad system, just that there might be some compatability issues. Like I say, register your games and post your crash information in the Tech Support forum, where someone more experienced can assist.

I suppose I will have to. The reason I mentioned the TW games is due to specs needed to run them which are rather high whereas this game does not seem very demanding except for the data crunching.

 

[Marcus Scipio]

Can someone please explain to me why this game crashes so much.

It doesn't....

Perhaps you should register your game and post this in the Tech forum?

 

[unmerged(94161)]

My video card is NVIDIA 9300M GS, and I have 3GB DDR2 RAM. The section of loading that seems to take an unaturally long time is the loading screen where it says it is generating trees etc and shows different Rome themed pictures as the background.

Wait, that actually IS a known issue. It means you need to install your game to... a specific directory though I don't know what. Go check out the tech support forum. I think installing it in c:\games\rome instead of program files is how you fix it but I'm not sure.

 

[Cheexsta]

Hmm, the only crashes I ever get now are with autosaves: sometimes when my autosaves get too large, the game struggles to overwrite them, so I just load the save, Alt+tab out and delete the file. Lately I've even turned off autosaving completely and just manually save the game whenever I remember.

 

[Yorudan]

Thinking about it, the majority of the time that the game crashes seems to be at the end of the month when I have opened a box to for example look through the characters of my faction and at the same time an event occurs so it opens a box to tell me about the event and it also tries to add cash to my balance as it is the end of the month, if all those three events occur at the same time the game stops responding as if there is oo much happening at once and I have to go to the desktop and close down the program.

Other times it's nothing noticeable that happens and the game just crashes to desktop seemingly at random.

 

[unmerged(152202)]

the only problem is.. loading a save game takes forever, has been up to 5 minutes for me a couple times.

 

[Cheexsta]

the only problem is.. loading a save game takes forever, has been up to 5 minutes for me a couple times.

That happens to me when I reload a savegame, or first choose one savegame from the list and then choose another. It's probably some kind of memory leak, but it has been reported. Here's hoping there will be a fix sometime down the track...

 

[Yorudan]

the only problem is.. loading a save game takes forever, has been up to 5 minutes for me a couple times.

The actual loading of a campaign doesn't take that long for me its the game loading screen in the beginning which takes and age, and also when you click on a saved game and it changes the map to reflect how the campaign map is looking, that also takes a long time.