Ok after an eternity of work, many lives lost and clones created in the procsess, global warming happening and destroying the moon, and monkeys becoming the dominating race on the planet, while hurtling towards the sun I give you to you to make SS 6.3 work.
Give all the rep you possibly can to EXAS for figuring out the solution, which was really obvious, since I hadn't palyed m2tw I even forgot the aprt of thsi workaorund, chaning the command line you put in the steam settings /facepalm, seriously even if it kills you, give tons of rep to MEXAS, so here it is, my original fix with Mexas' amazing work that somehow I didn't realsie I had to do:
Try...
- In the m2tw folder you should see 3 exes. "m2.exe", "kingdoms.exe" and "launcher.exe"
- Create a folder called "backup" and place the "launcher.exe" in that
- Rename the "kingdoms.exe" to "launcher.exe"
- Now go to the mod that you installed(I'll use SS in this case) and find the ".bat" file(icon should be a gear thingy) and open that.
- Copy this bit(the last bit will be different to TATW but should be similiar)
- @mods\Stainless_Steel_6\Stainless_Steel_Kingdoms.cfg
- Now go to your "Steam Games" list and right click kingdoms, select "properties" and then "set launch options"
- In the box that appears paste the bit you copied(in SS case it will be Try...
- In the m2tw folder you should see 3 exes. "m2.exe", "kingdoms.exe" and "launcher.exe"
- Create a folder called "backup" and place the "launcher.exe" in that
- Rename the "kingdoms.exe" to "launcher.exe"
- Now go to the mod that you installed(I'll use SS in this case) and find the ".bat" file(icon should be a gear thingy) and open that.
- Copy this bit(the last bit will be different to TATW but should be similiar)
- @mods\SS6.3\default.cfg
- Now go to your "Steam Games" list and right click kingdoms, select "properties" and then "set launch options"
- In the box that appears paste the bit you copied(in SS case it will be @mods\SS6.3\default.cfg)
Now save that and go back to your games list, click on kingdoms then launch, it should bypass the launcher and take you straight to the mod.
To play vanilla kingdoms again take away the launch line and rename "launcher.exe" back to "kingdoms.exe" and put the "launcher.exe" back in the main folder.
+rep to norsca for original fix.
+2x more rep gain to MEXAS for being so amazingly awesome =P
Kind Regards
Will