3 Rome: Total War problems

Malta Soron · Post by **Malta Soron** » Thu Jan 06, 2005 12:32 pm

I got 3 problems with Rome: Total War.

1. In the main menu, it doesn't erase the screen, so I see everything that was on the previous screen: the quote from the startup screen, and every menu I open, remain displayed. The mouse pointer also doesn't disappear from where I moved it.
I'm using a GeForce FX5600 with the Forceware 66.93 drivers.

2. Sometimes, when I'm on the campaign map, it suddenly crashes to desktop. I don't see a pattern in when it happens.

3. During the Prologue, I can't save the game. Is that supposed to be normal?

I updated to version 1.1, the latest as far as I know.

Rookierookie · Post by **Rookierookie** » Thu Jan 06, 2005 8:11 pm

1. Dunno - try rolling back to 5x.xx drivers
2. R:TW is notorious for instability.
3. It's normal.

Malta Soron · Post by **Malta Soron** » Sat Jan 08, 2005 3:15 pm

I had the same problem with the 55.xx driver I used before.

fable · Post by **fable** » Sat Jan 08, 2005 5:34 pm

One possible light on the horizon: the developers have set a goal of 1/15 for a new, massive patch, dealing with a host of issues. But it has to be approved after that, so it will probably be towards the end of the month before it's ready.

I know that stinks; and it's quite clear from their posts that they counted upon the player base to find all the problems for them. I'm just amazed there hasn't been a round of developer-beating in their forums because of this attitude.

Rookierookie · Post by **Rookierookie** » Sun Jan 09, 2005 1:06 am

On a certain R:TW forum I visit, EVERYONE is beating the developers up for the myriad of bugs present even after the first patch.

Legend · Post by **Legend** » Fri Jan 14, 2005 3:52 pm

Hm..sounds to me as a serious lack of RAM, how much you have ? and are you sure it's still working like it's supposed to ?

Malta Soron · Post by **Malta Soron** » Sat Jan 15, 2005 8:44 am

512 Mb Ram, 256 Mb Vram.

Rookierookie · Post by **Rookierookie** » Sat Jan 15, 2005 8:04 pm

Hm..sounds to me as a serious lack of RAM, how much you have ? and are you sure it's still working like it's supposed to ?

No it's not. Many players of R:TW now expect it to crash every other battle

Malta Soron · Post by **Malta Soron** » Sun Feb 06, 2005 3:20 pm

[QUOTE=Malta Soron]1. In the main menu, it doesn't erase the screen, so I see everything that was on the previous screen: the quote from the startup screen, and every menu I open, remain displayed. The mouse pointer also doesn't disappear from where I moved it.
I'm using a GeForce FX5600 with the Forceware 66.93 drivers.
[/QUOTE]

Solved this problem. It appeared to be a malfunction of Windows Media Player. I re-installed WMP 10, after which I could see the intro movies and the background animation in the main menu.
However, I've got another problem now. When I start a new game or load one, the program starts to load it, but hangs at a certain point and does nothing anymore, preventing me from playing. Any help?
Btw, the v1.2 patch has been published. Its readme contains seven pages of bugfixes.

Malta Soron · Post by **Malta Soron** » Tue Feb 15, 2005 2:37 pm

Solved this problem. It appeared to be a rather long loading time (about 15 minutes). The solution was in free disk space - when I got back to 10 GB, it all worked normal.