Originally Posted by
Laghorn
After watching some content on youtube, I was hooked by this mod and spend some time yesterday to get it running.
I am not sure why your game worked in the first place, but I had the same problems as you from the beginning.
Make sure you have a working Vanilla setup via reinstallation. Then disable all the DLCs that you have installed with the game. Even if you never bought anything, Steam gifted every owner of Empire: Total War the Definitive Edition of the game some time in 2015, which includes some DLCs (maybe all of them), so there are DLCs installed, even if youre not aware of it. You can do this via the properties menu of the library entry of the game. After that, install DarthMod like described in the guides. After that , I had my game running.