CTD - country select menu

[Fu.Th.Sy.]

Game crashes when I try to select a country. I extracted 2.36 patch over a clean EUR(with VV) installation.
error log:

[texturehandler.cpp:190]: Couldn't find texture file: gfx\\test\\menu_tiles_line.tga.
[texturehandler.cpp:190]: Couldn't find texture file: gfx\\test\\menu_tiles_2.tga.
[texturehandler.cpp:190]: Couldn't find texture file: gfx\\test\\menu_tiles_1.tga.
[texturehandler.cpp:190]: Couldn't find texture file: gfx\\test\\menu_tiles_dialog_2.tga.
[texturehandler.cpp:190]: Couldn't find texture file: gfx\\test\\slider_line.tga.
[sound.cpp:240]: Duplicate sound: land_event_02
[sound.cpp:240]: Duplicate sound: money_out
[sound.cpp:250]: Sound country_select not found.
[sound.cpp:250]: Sound country_select not found.
[sound.cpp:250]: Sound country_select not found.
[sound.cpp:250]: Sound country_select not found.

 

[AndrewT]

Lesson to the uninitiated: never apply a beta to your real installation, always to a copy of it. You'll need to do a full clean reinstall:

Uninstall the game, and then manually delete the game directory - this is important. Reinstall Rome - choose a new directory like c:\games\rome instead of the suggested path. Then apply VV and make 100% sure you point it to that same new directory above so that for instance the new rome.exe overwites the old one, the new romegame.exe overwrites the old one, and so on.

Download the 2.32c patch, and run it to install it, and again make 100% sure you point it to that same new directory. Once done right-click on the game's desktop icon and set it to run as administrator, and to disable desktop composition. Run the game up, exit, and run it up again to make sure you get the right checksum.

Now copy this installation to a new place like c:\games\rome-beta\ and apply the beta over that, then if it goes badly you only have to redo the copy, not the whole install.

 

[Fu.Th.Sy.]

Lesson learned. I Didn't know that 2.32c patch is needed to run the game properly with the new beta patch. This is where it went wrong, I think.
Thank you for a quick reply.

 

[Fu.Th.Sy.]

I did exactly as you said: selected different path (win7 thing), made a copy, patched it 2.32c>2.36beta, ran it as admin with disabled desktop composition, but still got a ctd. Checksum is MNOF and error log is same as before. It's strange that I can select Rome or Carthage and not Dacia or Massilia, that is when crash happens.

 

[AndrewT]

Did you check that the game ran OK before patching it with the beta?

 

[Doomdark]

This is a real issue in the beta patch. Updating it again soon.

 

[Fu.Th.Sy.]

Did you check that the game ran OK before patching it with the beta?

Yes, the game ran fine without beta.

I'm kinda surprised no one else had reported this bug. Thanks Doomdark