Total War: SHOGUN 2 Win 10 Crash Fix

If you have issues with Total War: Shogun 2. Like crashing when starting up the game, loading into the battle phase or even hanging on the splash screen. Try the following.

1. Restart your pc/laptop or end the process of shogun2.exe in Task Manager.

2. Go into Steam\steamapps\common\Total War SHOGUN 2\redist\  and install/reinstall as administrator

  - install_flash_player_11_plugin_32bit.exe
  - vcredist_x86.exe
  - vcredist_x86_90.exe
  - vcredist_x86-sp1.exe
  - flashsecurity.exe
  - flashsecurity1.exe
  - DirectX (go in the folder and run DXSETUP.exe)

3. Right-click the Shogun2.exe in the game's folder (Steam\steamapps\common\Total War SHOGUN 2\) 

 - Select compatibility - change it to Windows 7

4. Uninstall any of the following antivirus or web advisor programs

 - McAfee Web Advisor
 - Lavasoft Web Companion
 - Symantec Endpoint Protection

Chrome addons that block certain sites like McAfee WebAdivsor can block the ingame-online encyclopedia and makes the game crash.

5. Naval crash fix for now

 - start the game in Directx 9 

6. Splash screen fix (source Total War forums)

open cmd as administrator through the start menu (right-click on Command Prompt in the start menu and start it as Admin) type the following two commands one at a time and press enter

 - netsh int ip reset reset.txt

press enter

 - netsh winsock reset

press enter and restart your computer.

Restart your pc and then play.