Help Please? It wont work

[RupertH]

Hi,

I love Rome Total War and its amazing battles, but I cringe everytime I see Julii, Brutii, Scipii and SPQR because they were never split. Anyway I downloaded RTR Platinum Addition 1.9 as I see this works with patchs 1.5 and 1.6. So I've downloaded it and addeda few add ons. I click on the RTR shortcut eager in anticipation and... it comes up with Browsing. To locate the file click browse. I haven't a clue what to do now and I went on the normal RTW and its the same. I'm sure this has been answered before but I can't find any technical thread on the subject,

thanks in advance for any help,

Rupert.

[RupertH]

No one?

[Tiberius Nero]

Patience, someone will answer eventually.

By the way, could you provide more information, like whether you have RTW: Gold edition, whether you installed RTR on a Barbarian Invasion installation or on a RTW 1.5, whether you run on Vista, what add-ons you installed in addition to RTR etc?

[florin80]

The RTRPE installer points by default to an "Activision" folder, but if you have RTW Gold Edition, your game will most likely be installed in a "The Creative Asembly" folder. You`ve probably installed the mod in the wrong location.

[Pat89]

Hi,

I love Rome Total War and its amazing battles, but I cringe everytime I see Julii, Brutii, Scipii and SPQR because they were never split. Anyway I downloaded RTR Platinum Addition 1.9 as I see this works with patchs 1.5 and 1.6. So I've downloaded it and addeda few add ons. I click on the RTR shortcut eager in anticipation and... it comes up with Browsing. To locate the file click browse. I haven't a clue what to do now and I went on the normal RTW and its the same. I'm sure this has been answered before but I can't find any technical thread on the subject,

thanks in advance for any help,

Rupert.

Sounds like just a wrong shortcut...

Just go to your RTR-PE folder and try if the shortcut there does work..
You're shortcut should look like this
"C:\Program Files\Activision\RomeTW-BI.exe" -show_err -nm -mod:

Do you have the -mod switch version?
otherwise you should try this:

If you don't have a shortcut, you can create one yourself:

1) Go to your RTW folder
2) right-click on the "RTW-BI.exe"
3) copy to..
4) Desktop

5) right-click your new shortcut
6) Properties
7) in the first (ie. not second) text bar you will see something like
"C:\Program Files\Activision\RomeTW-BI.exe"

8) add the following at the end of that line:
-show_err -nm -mod:

9) in total it should look like this:
"C:\Program Files\Activision\RomeTW-BI.exe" -show_err -nm -mod:

Note: don't copy "C:\.." part, as yours ay be different from mine

I hope this works

No one?

Sometimes it takes days before you get a usefull answer
So be prepared

Cheers,
PatricianS

[RupertH]

Right, I'll tell you everything. I've got Rome Total War 1.5 and Barbarian Expansion 1.6. I downloaded Rome Total Realism Platinum Edition 1.9 because it worked with 1.5 and 1.6. So I installed it and now I have one my desktop, RTR Platinum, RTR Platinum BI and Mutiplayer reset. I click on RTR Platinumand Windows Picture and Fax Viewer pops up with the little RTR logo. I click on the RTR BI shortcut and a box with little white writing quickly pops up and dissappears really quickly. The same happens with the multiplayer one. My adds on were no light, the macedon one, and a few others. My files are in an activision folder, but the same happens.

Thanks for the responses but I don't think I should try them yet because it doesn't seem like my problem as I have the shortcut.

[florin80]

Again, most likely, your problem is that you`ve installed it in the wrong place and that`s why the desktop shortcut doesn`t connect with the executable. Read this guide:
http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?t=58290

[RupertH]

Hi, I've read that guide and it seems thats most likely my problem. Tommorow I will uninstall everything RTW-wise and insstall it all again to the instructions.

[florin80]

If the only problem was installing RTRPE in the wrong place you can simple move that folder in the correct location. For example:
from
Activision/Rome - Total War
to
The Creative Assembly/Rome - Total War
You basically copy the rtw folder from the activision and paste it in the other one overwriting the files.

[RupertH]

I tried that ad it still didn't work so something elese might be wrong with it. In start/programs I don't have RTR so I haven't a clue whats wrong.