Failed logon- invalid cd-key ?

Simon total war · Dec 12, 2006

hello dear Total war players.

Where could I change my cd-key in my Medieval 2 totalwar game ?
not in game settings, video and anywhere in the menu ?

thank you for reading !

Hellman109 · Dec 12, 2006

Im pretty sure it's in an INI file in the install directory.

And from what others have told me, you need to enter your key in using capitals or it wont work.

EG you cant put abcd-defg you need to put in ABCD-DEFG

Star_Wolf · Dec 13, 2006

I had the same problem, watch relly good the letters in the cd key are all massed up and not clear i mean in the game box, reinstall and with Capitals letters. in my event i put an 8 insted of a B so take a good look before entering any letter or a nubmer.

Simon total war · Dec 13, 2006

hey if this happens to anyone simply do what TOTALWAR told us...

You're getting the error message:
"Login failed - invalid CD-key"

Right this is how to resolve (with thanks to various posters)
You cannot change the cd-key ingame anymore (most likely for the protection against illegal games), so you have to do other things.

Open Start
Click Run
Type: regedit
Now go to this: "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SOFTWARE/SEGA/Medieval II Total War"

Now you'll see a value representing the CD-key. Change it to what it should be. You could have done the following wrong:
-Don't type spaces
-Do type the "-"s
-Don't use "o"s use "0"s
-Type everything (except for the numbers obviously) in capital letters

Now it should work, if it doesn't let us now ... preferably in the MP part

Sir Nicholas Altman · Dec 14, 2006

Thanks, you saved me.

Saladin45 · Dec 14, 2006

Still doesn't work for me. Tried all you said. It's still being problematic.

Sir Nicholas Altman · Dec 15, 2006

Saladin45 said:
Still doesn't work for me. Tried all you said. It's still being problematic.

*throws computer out of the window*

Sir Nicholas Altman · Dec 16, 2006

Well I installed the 1.01 patch and I can't logon now. Just it says failed to log on. Damn. It was fine for 2 days and now problems raise again.
*Throws computer out of the window*

dbussin · Dec 19, 2006

I'm having the same problem. I checked the registry and the key is entered in properly. I sent 6 emails to Sega and never received any return emails. I even went back to where I purchased the game, Gamestop, and no help.

DavidtheDuke · Dec 19, 2006

I have checked the registry as well. It doesn't work fo rme and I knew where the cd-key was as well. Ironically it worked before the patch. NOw it doesn't because I don't have to use a fixed-exe just to play the game (the patch fixed that, but has now broken multiplayer AFAIK)

Allu X · Jun 23, 2007

Well, noones posted here for a while, so I am reviving the thread...

I STILL GET THE MESSAGE "INVALID CD KEY" etc.. I have done all the regedit stuff...

Would this be to do with having patch 1.2? (m2tw)?

sapi · Jun 23, 2007

Extremely unlikely.

This will sound extremely pedantic, but are you 100% sure that the CD-KEY is entered correctly in the registery (common mistakes include Os for 0s, Ls for Is etc)

straig · Jun 24, 2007

mine dont work either and it is correctly typed

Captain Crimson · Jun 24, 2007

I'll have to carry on using my 10k timurid army vs AI....

willkill4food · Mar 30, 2008

ok so i just bought this game a few days ago it was the gold edition, so it came with the expansion pack. When i went on to multiplayer, it said "failed to login-invalid cd key". So i found this forum and i did the regedit, to type in the key again with no "-" and all uppercase letters. it still didnt work. I havent downloaded any patches for it either. I will see if i can figure it out. If you have any advice please email me at bbakerpianoman@hotmail.com

nightrise · Jul 18, 2008

i managed to get it working by retyping all the letters in in capitols and making all potential os 0s but also including a - every 4 charaters

working 18-7-08
gold edition

NADAVCHIK · Nov 5, 2009

mmm mine not workin either in gold edition im despert

Evan MF · Jan 29, 2010

It won't let me edit the CD key from the code and plus the correct one is in the field anyway.

Help me!

Evan

Ovi200 · Feb 16, 2010

hi all i have the same problem, i tryied to fix it with regedit but the key is corect
i tryied to write without "-"

and it doesnt work,
what should i do?
pls help

Affonso · Feb 20, 2010

I have the same problem. I used to be able to play online battles, but for some reason it isn't working anymore. I suspect it has something to do with one of the new patches.

emotion_name · Mar 2, 2010

Im guessing this was never resolved???

I am getting exactly the same problem!

M2TW works fine online, Kingdoms tells me invalid cd key.

I have done regedit thing, cd key is correct, 100% guarenteed.

Allusers preference is set to 1, not 0, and i have tried resending validation email from gamespy and creating a new account, all with nothing!

Pls, someone, somewhere, has to know what to do. Sega and official TW Forums are useless, about as helpful as a paper umbrella, and gamespy support never got back to me!

Metatron33 · Apr 25, 2010

omg i just got mines fix =D thank you so much my freind!

Metatron33 · Apr 25, 2010

omg i just got mines fix =D thank you so much my freind!

Marwan · May 21, 2010

thanks. still doesnt work tho

|Sith| Max · May 22, 2010

emotion_name said:
Im guessing this was never resolved???

I am getting exactly the same problem!

M2TW works fine online, Kingdoms tells me invalid cd key.

I have done regedit thing, cd key is correct, 100% guarenteed.

Allusers preference is set to 1, not 0, and i have tried resending validation email from gamespy and creating a new account, all with nothing!

Pls, someone, somewhere, has to know what to do. Sega and official TW Forums are useless, about as helpful as a paper umbrella, and gamespy support never got back to me!

perhaps you should come play a few good 2v2's on rome with me my friend. you have my xfire.

Evan MF · May 26, 2010

FFS No-one can help!! Im doomed.

((

Evan

Lucullus · May 27, 2010

Like a previous member allready posted:

You're getting the error message:
"Login failed - invalid CD-key"

Right this is how to resolve (with thanks to various posters)
You cannot change the cd-key ingame anymore (most likely for the protection against illegal games), so you have to do other things.

Open Start
Click Run
Type: regedit
Now go to this: "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SOFTWARE/SEGA/Medieval II Total War"

Now you'll see a value representing the CD-key. Change it to what it should be. You could have done the following wrong:
-Don't type spaces
-Do type the "-"s
-Don't use "o"s use "0"s
-Type everything (except for the numbers obviously) in capital letters

If you do this accordingly, it will work.

In case you still have problems, make a clean reinstall of M2TW and patch it with 1.2 and 1.3 after. If you have gold edition nothing is needed. Type in CDkey with capital letters and 0 instead of o. Thats the most important part. CD key is 100% case sensitive.

emotion_name · May 27, 2010

Lucullus said:
Like a previous member allready posted:

If you do this accordingly, it will work.

In case you still have problems, make a clean reinstall of M2TW and patch it with 1.2 and 1.3 after. If you have gold edition nothing is needed. Type in CDkey with capital letters and 0 instead of o. Thats the most important part. CD key is 100% case sensitive.

This doesnt always work, as some distrubutors of the game were assigned faulty CD Keys!

If this doesnt work for you, then what you have to do is this:

1. Go to SEGA.com and create an account there (i think its called a SEGA Pass)

2. Log into your SEGA pass account and press the "Support Ticket" option.

3. Type in your problem, along with everything you have tried so far.

4. SEGA will e-mail you back with a random code, and ask you to write it down on a piece of paper.

5. You then need to take a picture of your games (discs and cases) with the piece of paper in front of them and your name written on it. E-mail this back to SEGA. (They only accept jpeg format pictures)

6. Once they have received the picture from you, SEGA will E-Mail you a brand new CD Key.

7. Using reg edit input the new CD Key supplied by SEGA.

There you go, it now works perfect! :thumbsup2

This is about the 5th thread at just TWC i have explained this on, i might have to start charging SEGA a fee! :laughter:

alung2k · Jun 7, 2010

Haha that is rather lame from SEGA having to take a picture of it all together, but I suppose it's worth it!

I had the error recently, had to totally remove everything and reinstall.

Jack]{etch · Jun 9, 2010

Thanks it worked!

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