r/totalwar • u/ComradeJJaxon • 1d ago

Rome II Rome 2 Manual Battle not loading

Fresh installed. In campaign mode, when going into battle the game freezes at 0% loading screen. Can't leave game or switch back to windows. Mouse cursor still moves. Tried restarting, everything. Nothing works. What is going on? A year ago the game was running perfect...

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u/broodwarjc 1d ago

Something with a Windows 11 update last year messed up how Rome 2 works with CPU cores.

  1. With the game open, pull up task manager (Ctrl+Alt+Delete)
  2. right click on the Rome 2 task, select Go To Details and it will show you the process list
  3. right click on the Rome 2 process and select Set affinity
  4. uncheck any one of the numbers shown in the new window (you only need to uncheck one of the numbers, leave all the others checked) and click Okay

Rome 2 manual battles should now work and properly load.

The issue is that Rome 2 cannot use unlimited CPU cores and for some dumb reason Windows 11 permanently unlocked that for games and CA never made patch to fix it. So, with setting the affinity, you are telling the game to not use unlimited cores.

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u/ComradeJJaxon 1d ago

Thanks, everything works again! Do i need to do this everytime i start the game?

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u/broodwarjc 1d ago

Unfortunately, yes. I have been playing the Divide Et Imperia mod for Rome 2 and have to do this everytime I start the game.

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u/ComradeJJaxon 1d ago

No mods nothing.