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Regarding the Mega Trainer (Patch #4), $999.999 Gold, Unlimited Movement, ....

Just like everyone else posting, Path 4 trainer crashes the game.

I followed the trainer troubleshooting..

No antivirus, no antimalware
Used Empire: Total War, not the Special Forces Edition.
Downloaded game from steam
Patches up to date.

When you use some of the features, when you click end of turn the entire computer restarts itself and says it had a windows memory error.

Something must have changed about the game. DO NOT USE the trainer until a new version comes out.

This sounds like an issue on your system, not with the trainer. Considering the tens of thousands of people using this trainer, the fact that only 1-2 people are reporting issues, I would highly suspect user error or system config to be the problem. Otherwise we would have tons of people asking for a new trainer. We checked Steam and saw no new updates for this game.

We just tested out the trainer with latest version of game and it works perfectly fine. We ran the game with grand campaign. We tried all the options at least once during the course of the experiment. We ended turn 15 times (which takes awhile). We had no crashes of the game and definitely didnt' get a serious windows error.

Again, most likely a problem with your system's resources or third party software interfering with the trainer's operations.

Thank you for your speedy reply. I am reloading my entire operating system. I will let you know results. Thanks again for your professional response.

I reloaded my OS and I get the exact same error and game crashing. Any thoughts?

Windows XP Pro
4 GB Ram
ATI Radeon x1900
3 Hard Drives
Avast Antivirus (disabled)
Lavasoft AdAware (disabled)
AnyDvd (disabled)
Steam -- Empire: Total War Special Forces Edition

That's all I have installed. Help?

No, not really. Something must still be interfering or your resources are filling up after using the trainer options.

I updated BIOS and ran a memtest which came up totally clear.

I set Steam and Empire.exe priority to HIGH in Windows Task Manager.

Memory Usage seems to be around 800,000 until I minimize the game and open it again then it drops to 70,000. I have no idea what causes the game to hold on to its resources but the game lasts longer before crashing when I do that.

There are many posts on the game crashing in general on the sega site so I guess I am not lonely so I do not think it is the trainer that is causing the issue at this time.

thanks again for being so responsive.