Rome 2 is a great game. I love playing it but these technical issues are rendering it impossible for me to play.

First: My game would start up but froze at the Rome 2 logo before the title screen. I found a way around that issue but it caused the skins on soldiers to either not load properly and for Roman Legionary Cohorts to appear as Legionaries. This trend occurred between all second and third tier roman units. All the third tier soldiers looked like second tier.

As a result I tried to reinstall but that didn't solve the issue but I moved on.

Recently, I tried to start an online campaign with a friend but I could not connect to his game or any other games. Apparently, my game was a "different version". So I tried a clean install but at the end of the installation I cannot finish it because I have missing file privileges.

I love this game and would love to play it to its fullest capability. Can anybody help me through this installation issue?