Medieval: Total War not working (was: Help)

**Jake.Q** · August 28, 2007, 06:11 AM

Medieval Total War my copy is playing up and no one can hep me can you?

have just bought medieval total war gold
i meetall the requirments but when a press the start button the screen goes black i hear a noise and nothing but before hand this comes up

invaild command line parameter and like :o that sort of face but the eyes are above the o and then

invaild command line parameter :| a face like that |_| or that

and then it says
Resoultion values 0-7

what does this mean?

**Freddie** · August 28, 2007, 07:41 AM

Medieval Total War is an old game, it shouldn't have any problems on most systems. However the part about the resolution may give us a clue to what is going wrong.

Try setting your desktop resolution to something else, try one of these

1024 x769
or
1280 x 1024

It might your using a widescreen monitor and game engine doesn't like it. If you can post a screen grab (Print Screen button) of the error message, upload to imageshack or photobucket and post it here that would be very helpful

**Jake.Q** · August 28, 2007, 09:16 AM

Spoiler Alert, click show to read:

**Freddie** · September 03, 2007, 11:31 AM

Originally Posted by Jake.Q

mer

Are you using a Widescreen monitor?

**Jake.Q** · September 03, 2007, 11:47 AM

hmm
1152 by 864

XxxxxxxX

**Freddie** · September 03, 2007, 12:34 PM

Originally Posted by Jake.Q

hmm
1152 by 864

XxxxxxxX

Is your monitor square or rectangular? Which one does it look like?

or

**Roman Clone** · September 03, 2007, 12:01 PM

Ave Jake,

Polite notice with a smiley? Sounds like a virus...........

=S=,
Romus Maximus Clone

**Jake.Q** · September 03, 2007, 12:54 PM

**Freddie** · September 03, 2007, 04:30 PM

Try setting your desktop resoloution to either 1280 x 1024 or 1024 x 768, and run the game.

**Simetrical** · September 03, 2007, 08:08 PM

Originally Posted by Roman Clone

Polite notice with a smiley? Sounds like a virus...........

Those aren't smilies. They're individual characters (underscore and lowercase o) enclosed in single quotes.

**Roman Clone** · September 03, 2007, 08:11 PM

Ave General Sim. of the Engineer Corps,

Whoops, didn't realize that

But why would it say "polite notice?"

=S=,
Romus Maximus Clone

**Simetrical** · September 03, 2007, 09:17 PM

Originally Posted by Roman Clone

Ave General Sim. of the Engineer Corps,

Whoops, didn't realize that

But why would it say "polite notice?"

=S=,
Romus Maximus Clone

You have to have some sort of title for the message box. It's not like this is probably going to come up often, so probably some dev just put in whatever first came to mind.