Re: Another Steam Problem
Yup, just open steam to the "My Games" area. Right click on Medieval 2: Total War and click "Properties". Click on launch options. Paste in there whatever you find in your mods batch file launcher. For instance, @bugfixmod.cfg
Next time you launch the game (from steam) it will run whatever mod you have it set to launch. If you want to play vanilla, remove whatever launch options you put there.
By the way, the M2:TW directory is here:
C:\Program Files\Steam\steamapps\common\medieval ii total war
Most mods should install a modname.bat file in there, if you told the mod to install into that directory (which you should have). By opening up that .bat file in wordpad/notepad you can see what you have to paste into the launch options in steam.
Also, you might want to disable patching of the game in steam, as it will automatically patch your game without telling you, and can mess up mods.
You can tell what version of the game you are running (1.1 is the current version, with 1.2 coming out soon) by opening up the game, and clicking on options. It will tell you the version number in the top right corner.
If a moderator could sticky this to the Technical Help section all of us Steam users would be greatful. It's very frustrating when 100% of modders assume you are using a store bought version as we can't run any mods without spending hours figuring this stuff out for ourselves.
Re: Another Steam Problem
No problem parallax7d. I hope this thread helps solve future problems with Steam and mods. I also changed the thread title to make it clear on what this thread is all about.
Re: Another Steam Problem
Thanks for the fix, looks like this works for any/all mods.