Third Age - Total War 3.2: Install instructions, Download links and other Info

**mleise** · January 13, 2015, 02:41 PM

By the way, it seems like the Steam version is still receiving updates like this one:
http://forums.totalwar.com/showthrea...tch-05-09-2014
Quote: "Wrong sized siege equipment will no longer be deployed in siege battles."

Now Steam also has a bad reputation for making it hard to impossible to sell game activated through it and not giving you an option to return to an old version of a game if an update breaks things for you. You can however pause updates until you are done with a playthrough if you are worried about an update invalidating your savegames. I'm pretty sure Creative Assembly are aware of the savegame issue, but don't say you haven't been warned.

Now if you want to switch to Steam, go to your library and click on the "+ add game..." button. There you will be asked to enter your CD key and the game will be available afterwards for download in the library. The same can be done for the Kingdoms expansion which is now called a DLC (down-loadable content). Since Steam uses predefined installation directories you can uninstall your retail version of Medieval II + Kingdoms before or after installing the Steam version. Since savegames are local to the installation directory (unlike other games that may use a per-user directory), the Steam version wont pick them up unless you copy them over. And whether the Steam version is savegame compatible at all, I don't know.
But hey, at least Medieval II has a kind of long term multiplayer support now that it is on Steam!

**Arafis** · January 13, 2015, 02:50 PM

Ohh , thank you! I just bought the game on steam ... Can you install more than one mod smoothly ?

**Shankbot de Bodemloze** · January 13, 2015, 03:02 PM

Of course!

Just download mods, follow install instructions, and then when you want to play them go to Steam/SteamApps/common/Medieval 2 Total War/mods/[MOD NAME] and double click on the mod's .bat file to run it.

**Arafis** · January 13, 2015, 03:29 PM

First thanks for the agility to respond Mleise and Shankbot

One last question! If I install a submod, I can play the submod and the "normal" quietly?

**Arafis** · January 13, 2015, 03:31 PM

First thanks for the agility to respond Mleise and Shankbot One last question! If I install a submod, I can play the submod and "normal" silent?

Sorry, i forgot translate

**Shankbot de Bodemloze** · January 13, 2015, 03:48 PM

It did translate don't worry.

And you can play as many mod-foldered (ones that have their own folder your /Medieval 2 Total War/mods folder) mods alongside each other as you want - if you are talking about sub-mods for those mods, then for TATW I suggest reading through this thread: http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?528275

TL;DR: Once you've installed TATW make a copy of the folder and install the sub-mod into that folder, that way you can play both Vanilla TATW and a sub-modded version alongside each other (have to do a bit of .bat and .cfg editing but that is all explained in the linked guide

).

**Arafis** · January 17, 2015, 10:01 AM

Man, i need say: THIS MOD IS AMAZING!!!! I am a brazilian guy and great fan of Martin, Tolkien, Cornwell, etc... This mod is soo cool!!!! TY TY TY

**jdhorrigan** · January 18, 2015, 04:17 PM

Is there a version of the installer that actually works without taking 20+ minutes to start up

**Shankbot de Bodemloze** · January 18, 2015, 04:47 PM

No? Okay.

Have you tried right clicking the installer and running as an administrator?

**jdhorrigan** · January 18, 2015, 05:01 PM

Yes, it still takes a very, very long time to bring up the window. Once it starts installing it goes fine, but it's very irritating.

**jdhorrigan** · January 18, 2015, 07:14 PM

I get this error from the installer: " "too many other files are currently in use by 16-bit programs. Exit one or more 16-bit programs, or increase the value of the files in your config.sys file. "

**Shankbot de Bodemloze** · January 19, 2015, 03:16 AM

So you need to close some stuff I would imagine (I really don't know enough to give good answers

) Umm... go into the Task Manager Ctrl+Alt+Del and end some processes, including some background ones - although be careful because closing some of them down can cause your computer to go

. I have never heard of anyone getting that warning before though.

EDIT: This or this might be of help?