This has been included in the simplified installer - Gigantus
Some of you might already know that there has been an unexpected Steam Update to M2TW and Kingdoms the 22/07/2014 (7/22/14 for 'mericans )
If you haven't been following this thread, you will want to know that this update break mods, if you have steam M2:K updated to the last patch and have your Steam Shortcut to SS_launcher.exe you'll find out that the mod won't launch.
There is this "bad workaround" of switching mod folder name with one of the original Kingdoms campaigns,
like for examples americas, and yes it works to launch the mod, but the extra features embedded in the SS_launcher.exe
like the BAI swapper and exra cfg settings like borderless window won't be available.
Since what this update did was merge Kingdoms.exe into Medieval2.exe,
the proper solution would be to change the SS_launcher.exe and default.cfg to use the Medieval2.exe instead of Kingdoms
...however unless Gracul or any of the old Devs with the source material shows up to save the day, which I doubt,
we will have to rebuild the SS_launcher from scratch :/
Another solution is to make a copy of this new steam Medieval2.exe and rename it to Kingdoms.exe, It's confirmed that this works!
FIXING STAINLESS STEEL FOR STEAM INSTRUCTIONS:
#1 Go to your default medieval 2 folder
#2 Make a Copy of "Medieval2.exe"and rename that copy to "Kingdoms.exe"
or you can use the SteamModFixer.bat* to do this part for you.
#3 Go to your SS mod folder (mods\SS6.3\) and right-click on SS_Launcher.exe, open Properties and in the compatibility tab tick the "Run this program as administrator" option, don't forget to press the Apply button before closing.
OPTIONAL: Make a steam shortcut of the SS_launcher.exe like explained here in this tutorial
#4 Done now should be able to launch the mod with all its features using steam.
*SteamModFixer.bat
There are still other minor problems with the Steam version of M2 which haven't been solved yet.
So here are some solutions for some of them:
- Wrong or missing text/tooltips in the game UI
this happens because the new steam executable fails to convert some txt files into strings.bin