Mount And Blade Warband and Other Mods Dont work.

[Ajk728]

Steam: Flexerism

Hi, I play M&B Warband on the Steam Version, and whenever I go into Native, Nordinvasion or Napoleonic, after the loading screen it would come up with these results.

:Work completely fine which is very rare (Have to restart my computer because of freezing to get this result)
:Get into the starting screen but when I press a button it will freeze my computer
:Get into one of the tabs, multiplayer and there will be textures missing, some parts of text will be all over the place, character will sometimes appear with no certain body parts.
:Freeze automatically
:These reasons also occur with my mods Nordinvasion and Napoleonic.

I own Napoleonic legally, bought it on Steam, same with the Native Warband. There is one thing, I installed ENL admin tools on M&B Native for a server clan I joined, but that seems to not be the source of the problem. I tried to uninstall and re-install but no luck. Please help me, and if you have had this problem before. I do not believe I am missing any textures. This same problem occurs with all of my mods, it is not ENL. I am running 1.158 the latest version on steam.

 

[Arvenski]

Has it always done this (for as long as you've had it installed), or did it just start doing this recently?

 

[Ajk728]

It has started doing this recently, I was able to run fine earlier with the same features.

 

[Arvenski]

In the past, were you able to run all the modules you have now (Native, Nord Invasion, NW) without any trouble?

 

[Ajk728]

Yes

 

[Arvenski]

And did these problems start immediately after you made a change to any of your game folders, etc? (As in, installing a mod, editing a file, moving/copying one of the game files, updating the game or a mod, etc.)

 

[Ajk728]

I dont know, I didnt make any changes. Ive attempted to clear all of the files and it still creates the problem

 

[Arvenski]

Okay. And it's after you launch the game that it freezes, so it can't be steam causing the problem, correct? And when you have texture issues does it come up and say something like "error: cannot find texture [blahblahblah.DDS]"?

 

[Ajk728]

no it literally wonks up the window and freezes. No message.

 

[Ajk728]

I have over 100 GB left so I rarely doubt its lag. The textures might be the problem but i dunno whats wrong.

 

[Arvenski]

What about your graphics drivers? Have you updated them recently? (What I mean is, could a recent driver update be causing the freezes?)

 

[Ajk728]

I dunno, maybe that could be the problem but I rarely doubt it. My character in the character select will sometimes appear without a head. I think its a texture issue or some other program is running that I dont notice.

 

[Arvenski]

I used to mod Warband as a hobby, and I worked with textures quite a bit. They can't look fine one day and bugged the next; they're either bugged or they're not. Also, if a texture was completely missing the game should be crashing on the loading screen 100% of the time afaik. (At least, it will do that to me when I forget a texture when modding. Maybe you use different settings that control when textures are loaded.)

Anyway:
In the past you could play on the same settings without problems. Therefore, it's not your graphics settings
In the past you could play all your mods without problems. Therefore, it's not your mods
You haven't updated the game recently or installed any new mods, and you tried reinstalling which didn't work. Therefore, afaik it can't be your game files
These problems persist after you launch the game (it doesn't just freeze on game startup), so it shouldn't be steam causing the problem

Now the only thing that's left, that I can think of, is YOUR COMPUTER. Your graphics drivers are sounding like a very likely suspect. Does it do this sort of thing with any of your other games?

edit:  I also can't think of any other program in particular that would do this kind of thing. However, do you run any other high-demand programs (other games, fancy software, security scans) while playing M&B? I know that on my dad's computer trying to run WFAS while a security scan is running is a good way to freeze the computer up completely. 

 

[Ajk728]

I have a lot of games, the graphics card might be old.

 

[Arvenski]

You didn't answer my questions. 

 

[Knight of calradia]

You didn't answer my questions. 

He is not attempting to reveal his secrets just yet .

 

[Swadius 2.0]

Have you tried verifying your files with steam?

 

[Ajk728]

No I dont run a lot of programs, only skype and steam

 

[Arvenski]

No I dont run a lot of programs, only skype and steam

Alright then, do your other games have similar problems (freezing, texture issues, etc)?

 

[Ajk728]

Nope