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My EUII game (says Ubi Soft Exclusive and Focus on the case, if that helps you determine which version it is) CONSTANTLY, INCESSANTLY crashes to desktop. It doesn't appear to matter whether I'm playing a specific saved game, or playing a game that hasn't yet been saved, or even whether I'm at the start new game menu - chances are that if I wait a little bit, it'll crash.

As if that wasn't enough, about 50% of the time, when I try to load/start a game everything will be frozen. Troops won't move, and neither will the clock. About the only way to get it out of this frozen state is to CTRL-ALT-Delete, at which point I get an "illegal" message and I get punted back to desktop no worse for the wear.

From looking at this forum, I've gathered that part of my problem might be that I need to rename the "avi" file to "avi_back." I've found the avi file, but when I try to rename it it says "Cannot rename avi: Access is denied. Make sure the disk is not full or write-protected and that the file is not currently in use."

As you can probably gander, I'm not a computer whiz.

What do I do?
 
It is not a file you need to rename it is a folder on your hard drive.
Go to the directory/Folder that you installed EU2 in.
Something like Program Files/UBIsoft/EU2

In that folder there should be a sub folder named AVI. Rename it AVI_back.
 
Reboot the machine, then before you do anything else rename the AVI folder.

If you still get that message, disable and unload any anti-virus application you have and try again.

Also check its properties to make sure it is not Read Only somehow, if so change that.
 
Originally posted by Eamin
Sorry, I meant folder. I've found the avi folder (it's under my D drive, is that not where it's supposed to be? - I looked under Paradox in program files but didn't seen an avi there), but whenever I try to rename it this message pops up.

Ahh, no, you are off course here somewhere. By default the install dir for EU2 is:

C:\Program Files\Paradox Entertainment\Europa Universalis 2

Directly under that is a folder called AVI. That is the one you need to rename. Obviously if you chose to install it elsewhere then the above path will be different. But the correct AVI folder will always be directly under the folder with EU2.exe in it, whatever you chose to call it.