Off-topic, Shogun TW on Vista

**shootingbates** · November 04, 2008, 04:24 PM

Sorry its off topic, probably should be elsewhere but...

Does anyone know how to get Shogun Total War to work on Windows Vista? :hmmm:

Big Thanks

**Wundai** · November 05, 2008, 12:42 PM

In Windows XP when you click on options/ or properties of a game .exe file or something like that, it always gives you the choice to play a game in Windows 95/98/2000/XP mode, I don't have Vista but maybe Vista has this option as well.

**shootingbates** · November 05, 2008, 04:27 PM

It does have 'compatibility' settings

but keeps crashing when I start the game regardless

I've hunted around and apparently the version in Total War Eras works so guess I'll put Eras on my Christmas List!

Thanks

**Taneda Santôka** · November 06, 2008, 06:48 PM

I'd rather put Windows XP on your christmas list!

Vista was such a pain...

**Vagabond** · November 07, 2008, 01:33 PM

Originally Posted by Taneda Santôka

I'd rather put Windows XP on your christmas list!

Vista was such a pain...

Totally agree

**mircus** · November 07, 2008, 03:30 PM

Keep the old computer to play RNJ or change it for Empire? This is the problem! Just Ran not too late ...

**Buffalo72** · January 11, 2009, 01:09 AM

I cant even get it to work on XP....

**LennStar** · January 19, 2009, 12:44 PM

Vista: Have a look at the EB install guide:
http://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showthread.php?t=80270

if you use Windows Vista you may experience certain errors due to the security model Vista uses to protect your PC from possible threats.
There are two ways to circumvent this issue:
1) Conform yourself to the security model: don't install softwar such as games in the C:\Program Files\ directory, or any of its subdirectories.

**TheJian** · January 16, 2010, 07:48 AM

Originally Posted by shootingbates

It does have 'compatibility' settings

but keeps crashing when I start the game regardless

I've hunted around and apparently the version in Total War Eras works so guess I'll put Eras on my Christmas List!

Thanks

Does anyone know if this is true?

**Clone1710** · January 16, 2010, 05:03 PM

My Shogun Version from the Eras box works fine, but I can't get Medieval from the same box to work. <.<

**Constantius** · March 01, 2010, 02:10 AM

Originally Posted by Leonidas1710

My Shogun Version from the Eras box works fine, but I can't get Medieval from the same box to work. <.<

Do you have a 64bit system ?? or 32 bit ?? ...Reason i ask ,I have RTW anthology ,and I cannot load BI orRTW they just minimise to desk top .According to customer services NONE of their games are 64 bit compatible

**Helloween** · March 02, 2010, 12:49 PM

There can be major problems on XP as well. At least on 8XXX series NVidia cards, the newer drivers they require have a bug with Direct Draw (which is used on the interface), that reports wrong mouse click coordinates to the game... Forcing you to play it with painfully slow and extremely ugly software rendering.

**Clone1710** · March 06, 2010, 12:36 PM

Originally Posted by constantius

Do you have a 64bit system ?? or 32 bit ?? ...Reason i ask ,I have RTW anthology ,and I cannot load BI orRTW they just minimise to desk top .According to customer services NONE of their games are 64 bit compatible

I've got a 64 Bit System.

Originally Posted by Helloween

There can be major problems on XP as well. At least on 8XXX series NVidia cards, the newer drivers they require have a bug with Direct Draw (which is used on the interface), that reports wrong mouse click coordinates to the game... Forcing you to play it with painfully slow and extremely ugly software rendering.

It's not slow for me, but it's ugly and annoying, that's true. That's with all later nvidia cards.
Can't even change resolution now. <.<