System specs please.
Drivers up to date on your video card?

Specs
P4 3.4 Ghz
1 GB RAM
Geforce 6800

Drivers are up to date, but I'll try again...

Sorry, but you must revert to a previous save. You may have to return several saves back. It evidently has something to do with a corruption introduced into the save file. The alternative is to get TCA to give you the save file layout, and hex edit it yourself. Ugh.

Save frequently.

Good hunting...

Any idea what causes this corruption? I just had this happen to me today. It happened at Sardinis, first after I had just one a hard fought battle against the Greeks, and then later on when I had to try taking the settlement a second time it crashed every time I tried auto-resolving an attack on that same settlement. Urghh! And to think I had gotten so close! Well, that was 113 BC, so I'm going to go back 20 years just to be safe.

It's bad enough I spend endless hours playing this thing--to have it crash out on you after all that time spent is pretty irritating!

>Any idea what causes this corruption?

The bug is caused by a combination of events and unit locations on the map which lead to an "unanticipated" eventuality, which will (e.g.) change a character in the save file, and that resulting save file is no longer in the rigid, inflexible format that the programmers expected. RTW programmers seem to have created the game with absolutely zero tolerance for real-world errors in the setup and save files... and so when an error happens (could be from a game programming issue, or even a hard-drive glitch), the result is your save will not load, or (in the case of editing the game setup files), that the campaign will not start.

>Well, that was 113 BC, so I'm going to go back 20 years just to be safe.

You can load a recent save, and quickly run through it to see if the same problem happens. If it does not, then load that save again and play it out. "Usually", you only need to go back a save or two.

Thanks! A couple saves back was really all I needed. Played about 10 years worth with no glitches. I was more worried that an error from WAAAY back was being copied over several saves, but if that's true it wasn't very many.