Following the introduction of Windows 10 many players of Rome Total War have been unable to start their favorite game. When clicking on the launcher they get a message saying "log in as admin and try again", but doing so didn't start the game neither. With the recent update of 08/09/2015 the same problem is reported also for Windows 7 and Windows 8, and as a result the original installation of many old games is not working, including Rome Total War and our mod Rome Total History.
The reason for this inconvenience is described in detail in the following page (dating from early august): https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/...61d40d4?auth=1
Microsoft has adressed the concern only after a month offering the following solution: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/3086255
From this it appears clear that they have no intention to take further steps in order to make our old games compatible again, and thus every player ís left to find a solution of his own.
Since the problem affects first of all the disc version of the game, as far as I know, there are currently three viable solutions:
1. Redeem your non-CD-version of the game on Steam
Quote Originally Posted by Gigantus View Post
Here is a guide line how to redeem the CD key on Steam, never mind its for M2TW.
2. Reactivate the disabled driver following the Microsoft instructions
This appears to be working only in Windows 7 and 8, and Microsoft warns that there may be security issues.
In short, you need to open a command prompt with administrator rights. To do so click on start and write "cmd" in the search field. Then a window with the programme will pop up. Right click on cmd and select "Run as administrator". Allow the programme to alter your computer. When the black screen pops up type the following lines:
Quote Originally Posted by Grimwred View Post
To get RTW working, open a command prompt as administrator and then type two following commands :
sc config secdrv start= auto
sc start secdrv
You should press Enter after you type each command.
When you start your first battle with the new version, you may find that the performance is quite underwhelming, but after a minute or two it will catch up and be as good as the original.
These solutions work fine with Windows 7 and Windows 8, but under Windows 10 there may be more problems, as discussed here: http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showt...and-Windows-10
I hope this was helpful. Let me know if you encounter difficulties or have other solutions.
This solution offered by Philidelphos in the RTH forum.
Solution #3 should also fix the problem with Steam versions of RTW\BI\Alex.
But be sure to back up the originals...or better yet (as I have, both the RTW and Alex directories elsewhere).
Also, see here:
http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showt...tice-please%29
or here:
http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showt...-windows10-FIX