Help me! Serious Rome Total War issues!

[Marius Leonidas]

My Rome total war game has developed a huge fault, i can not get to the actual battle screen. The screen with the quote and the red loading bar appears and fills up but when it finishes i get the message that "Rome Total War has experienced an error and has been forced to close down... etc". I thought uninstalling and restalling would work but it just made it worse as icant complete the prologue as i cant get the battle you have to fight and win!

There must be some tec genius' on here who can help me out. Even if there is nothing i can do, would buying a new copy of it work?

Any help will be greatly appreciated!

:hmmm:

[Marius Leonidas]

I dont know much about my laptop but i figure it will be helpful to tell you all what i know.

The operating system is Windows Vista
Its a Dell Inspiron 6400
It has 160 GB hard drive

I dont know any more about it, sorry!

[scottishranger]

Does it happen for any other battles?

[Marius Leonidas]

The only way i could fight battles was by simulating them. As i can simulate the prologue battle i am totally screwed.

Any suggestions?

[Tharros]

1. Unistall RTW
2. Make sure the /Activision/Rome: Total War/ folder is completely deleted
3. Run CCleaner. Clean both files and the registry.
4. Install RTW.

Hope that works...

[Freddie]

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[Marius Leonidas]

Thanks for the advice, i will give it a go!

[Marius Leonidas]

1. Unistall RTW
2. Make sure the /Activision/Rome: Total War/ folder is completely deleted
3. Run CCleaner. Clean both files and the registry.
4. Install RTW.

Hope that works...

I did all that but it still dosent work.

Any other suggestions from ne one?

[Jopel]

You tried to play with your log on?

[Marius Leonidas]

What? What do u mean?

[eddy_purpus]

I did all that but it still dosent work.

Any other suggestions from ne one?

have you patched it ?
like lets say the default patch for an RTW install ( not gold version)
is i believe 1.4 retail version of the game without barbarian invasion pack...
what you should do ... is patch it to version 1.5 ...
re install the whole thing...
then install patch 1.5 ...
cuz i know patch 1.6 is the one that barbarian invasion installs when it installs itself...
i would give ya a link right now... but i dont hve it right now...
imma look for it






NEVERMIND...
i mistaken patch 1.4
you need this http://www.gameborder.com/game/Rome:...20patch%201.3/
named patch 1.3


check ur patch if its 1.2 ... if it is... download that patch 1.3 and then install after uninstalling then re installing RTW ...
i hope it works my friend =)...

[Jopel]

What? What do u mean?

What GPU you got then??? I mean try playing with the logbook of your GPU on, let's see what it tells you

[Marius Leonidas]

I do have barbarian invasion but not installed, should i try installing that?

[eddy_purpus]

I do have barbarian invasion but not installed, should i try installing that?

try that .... then lets see if RTW works....

[lordoftheT]

Try uninstalling, turning vistas User Account Control off in the security center and then reinstalling.

[Marius Leonidas]

Ive tried installing barbarian invasion and now that wont let me fight in the battle screen either.

Any more ideas?