patches

**caesardog217** · February 12, 2008, 03:21 PM

Hello everyone, I am new to MTW2 and I have meen seeing you all mentioning patches and stuff. Do I need to patch my game?:hmmm:

**scottishranger** · February 12, 2008, 03:23 PM

Moved to Medieval 2 forum

**Valbruch** · February 12, 2008, 03:27 PM

It is not reallly necessary, but it is definitely worth doing. Patches fix some significant issues from retail.

So I would recommend doing it.

**Georgy Zhukov** · February 12, 2008, 07:19 PM

Like Valbruch said they make the game more enjoyable and Welcome to TWC!

**Armoured_Crusader** · February 13, 2008, 11:49 AM

I recommend you patch it; it will greatly improve your game play and welcome to TWC as well.

**caesardog217** · February 13, 2008, 12:14 PM

thanks guys, is there a need to do all the patches in order, or can i just do the latest one?

**NobleNick** · February 13, 2008, 12:25 PM

The patches are put out by the game manufacturer, and take care of a lot of bugs, which many claim made the game nearly unplayable. I don't know that I would go that far; but the download and install time will be paid back to you many times over, by not having to put up with quirky game behavior.

Patch directly to 1.2 if you have M2TW.

Patch to 1.2, first, and then patch to 1.3 if you have M2TW + Kingdoms.

You can find the free patches doing a Google search on M2TW and patches. Or perhaps someone here will give you a link.

Edit: I see Monsieur Alphonse's post, below, which reminds me that I failed to emphasize a good point: Do NOT install patch 1.1

**The Sundance Kid** · February 13, 2008, 12:20 PM

Just the latest, it has all previous changes on it too.

**Monsieur Alphonse** · February 13, 2008, 12:28 PM

You need patch 1.2.

Patch 1.3 is the latest but does only make M2TW compatible with Kingdoms. Skip patch 1.1 because if you install patch 1.2 over 1.1 it can cause some problems.

Welcome

edit: Noble Nick beat me.

**Valbruch** · February 15, 2008, 04:43 PM

Skip patch 1.1 because if you install patch 1.2 over 1.1 it can cause some problems.

Sorry for trying to hijack this thread but what issues it can cause ? Because if I recall correctly, I did just that when installing M2 a long time ago.

**Monsieur Alphonse** · February 16, 2008, 03:52 AM

According to the readme file of patch 1.2 you should use patch 1.2 with a clean install of M2TW. About 90% of the people that didn't do that and patched 1.1 to 1.2 got problems like CTD's etc. If you have done it and don't have any problems then don't worry about it. Maybe you are one of the lucky ten percent.

**Valbruch** · February 16, 2008, 03:57 AM

Maybe you are one of the lucky ten percent.

I guess I am. Thanks for answer.

**Grimmy** · February 16, 2008, 05:03 AM

Patches are good. There's player fix type stuff here in the mods section that are also good to go on top of the patches, if you're noticing a problem that one of the player fixes addresses.

A good example is the player made patch for the Americas campaign in Kingdoms.

This forum is a good place to read around on, not just in this main section, but in the mods sections too. Lots of good stuff.

Oh, and dont for get to give some mods a try. There's some fantastic work done by players that really puts a shine on M2:TW.

**caesardog217** · February 20, 2008, 02:23 PM

I just got kingdoms and I am having a problem loading it. The screen freezes on me. What could be the problem?

**JonR** · February 20, 2008, 02:52 PM

Hold on, did you allready have Kingdoms when you installed the 1.2 patch?

If you install Kingdoms, the main game will automatically get patched to 1.3, so you should not have to do it yourself.