Installation Help (now with a MUCH! needed update)

[The Holy Pilgrim]

MAKE SURE YOU DIRECT ALL INSTALLATION PATHS TO YOUR MAIN MEDIEVAL 2 FOLDER! NO MATTER WHAT IT SAYS!
Unless specified in the instructions below

Possible mod folder paths:

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Windows XP: C:\Program Files\SEGA\Medieval II Total War\mods\Call_of_Warhammer
Windows 7: C:\Program Files (x86)\SEGA\Medieval II Total War\mods\Call_of_Warhammer
Steam (Windows XP): C:\Program Files\Steam\steamapps\common\medieval ii total war\mods\Call_of_Warhammer
Steam (Windows 7): C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\medieval ii total war\mods\Call_of_Warhammer
VISTA: C:\Program Files\SEGA\Medieval II Total War\mods\Call_of_Warhammer

Installation Order

Here are the steps one must take when using the Official Download links (here) 1) Download and install Version 1.4 2) Download and install the New Music Patch 3) Download and install Cumulative Patch 1.44 4) Download and extract the English Translation to your "Call_of_Warhammer/data" folder. 5) Follow all instructions here.

Trusted Alternative Links

Here are the best, most used, and most trusted Alternative download links for users to use without possibly having to wait forever: TORRENTS AND DOWNLOADS NEW DOWNLOAD LINKS!

Want to seige a city in custom battles? Now you can!

This is for the people who are having troubles playing siege battles in custom battles (with pictures!): FOLLOW THESE INSTRUCTIONS EXACTLY! 1. Select a map without the little silver box next to it. Spoiler Alert, click show to read: Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 2. Set the settlement level to "Fort" Spoiler Alert, click show to read: Note: It will say "none" for settlement level after this. That's alright! 3. Select your culture (such as Empire) Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 4. Re-select your settlement level (such as Huge-City) Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 5. Play the siege battle! Spoiler Alert, click show to read: Have an enjoyable siege!

Want smoother gameplay?

Here's a tool that was made (not by me) to increase your game's FPS (frames per second) a bit. The higher the FPS, the better. It raises my game's FPS from 15 to 20-21 It helps more than you think. All you have to do is run the tool and it works! If you want to see your game's FPS, go download FRAPS. It's a handy tool that lets you save your screenshots where you want and it shows your FPS in the top right corner of your screen. You can also disable that number if you want though. Link With the best intentions, The Holy Pilgrim

For those with steam

If you have Medieval 2 on steam, try this tool. It may help you if you have any problems. OR Big thanks to SteamKnight for this tool [I] How to run the steam tool Credits also go to Sharpe235 for tell me how to add the game to your registry How to get CoW 1.4 to work with steam

Windows 7 Users!

Problem solved. I just had to delete the teutonic folder in my "C:\Users\My name\AppData\Local\VirtualStore\Program Files (x86)\SEGA\Medieval II Total War\mods" folder. Anyone using Windows 7 should read this if you are having problems with the sound in version 1.01 And before anyone closes this thread, I just posted this so that way other people don't post similar threads. In order to extract files to another folder, you MUST! disable User Control. Type "Disable User Control" in the help box to find it and put the slider all the way to the bottom. Once you do this, the mod will work. Here's how 1. Open the "Computer" shortcut on your desktop 2. You'll see a little blue ? mark button in the top right corner of the screen. Click it. 3. A dialog box will come up. Type "Disable User Control" in the search box up at the top. Press Enter once typed. 4. Click on "2. How do I change the behavior of User Account Control by using the slider?" 5. Follow the instructions at the bottom of the page. Once you do that, you can play the mod (you may want to reinstall it though) why close it? I'll make it sticky -Beregond

How to make separate mod folders for CoW

Hey guys, Since some of the CoW players have been wishing to make two CoW folders to play more than one sub-mod, I'm here to show you guys how. STEP 1 -Download CoW and install all necessary fixes. Keep this folder as an unmodified backup so that way if you try a sub-mod and you don't like it or you messed something up terribly, you have the vanilla folder with clean files to rely upon STEP 2 -Copy the CoW folder and rename it to whatever you like. It can be "Call_of_My_Little_Pony" if you'd like it to be*. STEP 3 -Open the new folder. It should have all of the files your original CoW folder had before the copy process. You should see a "warhammer.bat" and a "warhammer.cfg" in the folder (NOT in the data folder, though). STEP 4 -Open the "warhammer.cfg" file with any text editing program, preferably Notepad or Notepad++. You will see a section that looks like this: [features] ;editor = true mod = mods/Call_of_Warhammer change the red phrase to have the same name as your new folder. We'll use the "Call_of_My_Little_Pony" example for the sake of consitency. [features] ;editor = true mod = mods/Call_of_My_Little_Pony Save your changes and exit Notepad. STEP 5 -Right-click on your "warhammer.bat" file and select "EDIT." This will bring up a text window that should look something like this: del /Q ".\data\text\*.bin" del /Q ".\data\world\maps\campaign\imperial_campaign\*.rwm" cd "..\.." start kingdoms.exe @mods\Call_of_Warhammer\warhammer.cfg Once again, change the red to have the same file name as your new folder del /Q ".\data\text\*.bin" del /Q ".\data\world\maps\campaign\imperial_campaign\*.rwm" cd "..\.." start kingdoms.exe @mods\Call_of_My_Little_Pony\warhammer.cfg Save your changes and exit Notepad. STEP 6 -Play with your new mod folder and have fun *NOTE: I strongly advise new folder names to have underscores "_" instead of spaces " ". This will reduce any errors that spaces " " may cause.

If you are having problems with the torrent, copy these questions and answer all of them (if they apply):

1. Do you have Kingdoms version 1.5?

2. What other mods do you have?

3. What Operating System do you have (eg. Windows XP, Vista, Windows 7)? If you have either Windows 7 or Vista, did you turn off the UAC (User Account Control)?

4. What extraction system are you using (eg. 7-zip, Winrar, WinZip etc.)*?

*Try using 7-zip. It seems to cause less issues than winrar or winzip. I don't know why, but people who use 7-zip seem to have less CTD errors on start up.

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Irrelevant, Older, instructions (just for safe keeping)

Possible mod folder paths: Spoiler Alert, click show to read:  Windows XP: C:\Program Files\SEGA\Medieval II Total War\mods\teutonic Windows 7: C:\Program Files (x86)\SEGA\Medieval II Total War\mods\teutonic Steam (Windows XP): C:\Program Files\Steam\steamapps\common\medieval ii total war\mods\teutonic Steam (Windows 7): C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\medieval ii total war\mods\teutonic VISTA: C:\Program Files\SEGA\Medieval II Total War\mods\teutonic The Holy Pilgrim's method Here's the updated installation order: 1. Version 1.02 (found here) 2. Version 1.01 sound patch (found here) 3. Version 1.01 translation (found here) (extract to the "teutonic/data" folder) 4. Version 1.02 translation (found here) (extract to the "teutonic/data" folder) 5. Version 1.03 (found here) (post #3) 6. Version 1.03 hotfix (found here) (post #4) If you follow these directions exactly, you can play with the campaign and custom battles without frequent (there are still a few bugs in the campaign, but it's pretty stable) CTD's Hope this solves your problems All in one download here! Here is a torrent that contains all of what you need in order to play the game LINK TO HAPPINESS Official Install Method (thanks to Katoneo!) Well I've just installed 1.02 full version. 1. Place all parts in one folder. (for me it was "coh") Spoiler Alert, click show to read:  2. Open your 7-Zip File Manager Spoiler Alert, click show to read:  3. Go to your "coh" directory. Check file with .001 ending and use extract option Spoiler Alert, click show to read:  4. I did extracted it to another folder and I've received Spoiler Alert, click show to read:  5. Just run your installation For me It worked fine, I didn't have opportunity to test it in-game campaign, i've just installed it and started the game, so far it works. Sorry for thumbnails but I hadn't got time to resize imgs.