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March 06, 2010, 05:38 PM
#1
Laetus
Can't Reinstall/Unistall Rome Total War
Basically Rome Total War was working fine until I tried to install the EB mod for Rome Total War. EB didn't work so I got rid of it. Then the normal version of Rome Total War failed to work so I had to reinstall it. I unistalled Rome Total War from "unistall or change program". When I then put in Disc 1 to reinstall it, the main menu still showed the options "play Rome Total War" and "Unistall". When I click Unistall DemoShield starts up but nothing happens.
I tried to manually unistall it by deleting all the Rome Total War folders and registry entries (from http://shoguntotalwar.yuku.com/topic...html).I've double checked whether i've deleted all the folders and registries for Rome Total war but when I put in Disc 1 I still can't reinstall. I have windows vista.
Any help with this is appreciated.
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March 06, 2010, 06:40 PM
#2
Re: Can't Reinstall/Unistall Rome Total War
You have to also delete the folders in Program Files and appdata.
The one in appdata is hid so you have to unhide all hidden files and folders in folder options first.
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March 08, 2010, 07:56 AM
#3
Laetus
Re: Can't Reinstall/Unistall Rome Total War
you know what the file in appdata is called and where to find it? There's no folder to do with Rome Total War in there.
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March 08, 2010, 08:21 AM
#4
Re: Can't Reinstall/Unistall Rome Total War
If you have XP, there is none.
If you useVista or 7, it can be The Creative Assembly, or Activision, or Sega depending on which version of the game you bought.
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March 09, 2010, 08:40 AM
#5
Laetus
Re: Can't Reinstall/Unistall Rome Total War
okay i've deleted the activision folder in appdata, but it still won't work
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March 09, 2010, 08:50 AM
#6
Re: Can't Reinstall/Unistall Rome Total War
If you have both Activision folders deleted, run a registry cleaner like Eusing Free registry Cleaner to get out the garbage.
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March 12, 2010, 10:03 AM
#7
Laetus
Re: Can't Reinstall/Unistall Rome Total War
done that. Still no luck :S
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March 12, 2010, 10:17 AM
#8
Re: Can't Reinstall/Unistall Rome Total War
To the extreme. I am using 7 but it and Vista file straucture is almost identical.
search-ms:displayname=Search%20Results%20in%20Computer&crumb=location:%3A%3A{20D04FE0-3AEA-1069-A2D8-08002B30309D}\InstallShield Installation Information I believe is the culprit. The trouble is I don't know which entry is for RTW. If it's in the list of registry entries you pulled up from .com, delete it.
Since I don't know, I'd rename the folder, and tri it, again.
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March 12, 2010, 05:31 PM
#9
Laetus
Re: Can't Reinstall/Unistall Rome Total War
sorry, rename which folder?
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March 12, 2010, 05:50 PM
#10
Re: Can't Reinstall/Unistall Rome Total War
Installshield Installation Information
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March 12, 2010, 06:22 PM
#11
Laetus
Re: Can't Reinstall/Unistall Rome Total War
hmm I deleted that folder because I thought that could have been causing the problem..
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March 12, 2010, 06:45 PM
#12
Re: Can't Reinstall/Unistall Rome Total War
Then did it make a new one?
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March 16, 2010, 08:14 AM
#13
Laetus
Re: Can't Reinstall/Unistall Rome Total War
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March 16, 2010, 08:42 AM
#14
Re: Can't Reinstall/Unistall Rome Total War
My window 7 64 bit shows two other Installshield folders besides the on you deleted.
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March 16, 2010, 01:10 PM
#15
Laetus
Re: Can't Reinstall/Unistall Rome Total War
AHHHHHHH yeee
lol when I was looking for the other InstallShield folders I accidentally found a rogue RomeTW file in C:\Windows just on its own called RomeTW.ini . Deleted that and now it works yay.
Cheers muchos for the help
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March 16, 2010, 01:34 PM
#16
Re: Can't Reinstall/Unistall Rome Total War
Good to hear that you've got it working. irishron helps again.
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