Game crashes after title screen Thread - The Italian Wars mod for Medieval II: Total War: Kingdoms

My game crashes right after the title screen appears. It's loading when it suddenly goes black and the game just shuts down. I don't get any message from windows that anything went wrong. My file path is: Program Files (x86)/SEGA/Medieval II Total War/mods/Italian_wars

So inside your italian_wars folder you have folders like data, maps, GHZ etc?

Yes, everything seems to be there. I tried to uninstall and install again but that didn't change anything.

Did you delete all previous versions?

Yes, all previous versions were deleted when I started the installation. Maybe I should download all the documents over again and start from scratch?

No, no. I meant, have you deleted them by hand?
The whole italian_wars folder?

Yes, I deleted the whole italian_wars folder by hand.

All right. Please send me the log file.

Start the game, it will crash and then go to ...SEGA\Medieval II Total War\logs. There is a txt file in it, which I need to see what the exact problem is.

BTW do have the vanilla starting screen or the one from TIW?

Okay, I started the game, it crashed, went looking in the logs directory but the directory is empty, there's no .txt file. I always get the TIW starting screen.

Ps: I'm starting to feel really guilty about bothering you this much...

Hmm... I could be the virtual store problem...

Please, follow these steps here: Twcenter.net

Not at all

My system is buisy changing everything as we speak. Is there anything else that I have to do when everything's done?

In any case: thank you very much, I love the Italian Renaissance and i really hope I can play the latest update of the game

I guess you haven't had any problems with any of the previous versions?

No, no problems with the previous versions. I can perfectly play the 4.1 patch.

Very well.

So was it the virtual store?

I tried after following the steps on TWC but it still doesn't work. Or do I have to reinstall the game after doing the virtual store check up?

My apologies, i checked the logs directory again, and this time, there was a .txt file. How can I send you the file?

Nope, normally one needn't reinstall the game..

Do you receive an unexpected error message or no message at all?

No message at all, the screen just goes black and the game shuts off. But if you want, I found the .txt in the logs directory you were talking about earlier. Maybe you can identify the problem that way. Is there a way to send in to you?

Oh great at last! I'd guess, you could load it up on this site here: Speedyshare.com

Just compress it to a rar file or zip and send me the download link.
Many thanks!

Edited by: Neadal

Oké, I think it worked: here is the link: Speedy.sh

Thanks again for your help. I hope you can find a solution.

All right I had a look at the log and sadly I couldn't find the problem, which causes your crash.
As I far as I can see it stops loading somewhere inside the building ui files, that probably means the descr_win_condition file is missing..

How many files do you have, after you have extracted the download 7zip file?

Did you use winrar or 7zip for the extraction?

I use 7zip. After I have extracted the download 7zip file, I have 5 files: the main .exe file, the .D01, .D02 and .D03 files which I can't open and the .exe file for the translation.

That seems quite all right..
Okay, delete the italian_wars folder and run the main exe file and send me your exact install path once again, please.

Then start the game, which should normally launch in German language now.

Edited by: Neadal

Oké, will do!

We'll get this

I reinstalled the game, this is the exact install path: C:/Program Files (x86)/SEGA/Medieval II Total War/mods/Italian_Wars. I'm going to test it now, hoping it works...

Oké, I tried it but it still crashes after the title screen appears...

Thank you for the encouragement. I've got the feeling I'm presenting you quite the challenge