Faction and Movie Problems

**Confederate Jeb** · May 01, 2008, 12:16 PM

Alright, a long time ago I decided to try to unlock all the teams. Back then i was young and thought it just was a really weird cheat that involved changing a game code. Anywho, after a couple of attempts at trying to get the allignment of the factions just right so they all would be unlocked (except for SPQR and the Rebels; I didn't want them), all I have to show is Macedon and Pontus. I also ended up with missing movies. The intro movie to the game and each faction is gone, as well as the moving shadows on the main menu. When you capture a wonder or win a campaign, those movies don't show up either; it just has a blank box with music. All the factions that I haven't unlocked (Armenia, Numidia, Spain, Dacia, Sythia, and Thrace), when I click on their icons when choosing a faction for the campaign results in a CTD. How can I fix this and unlock all the factions without uninstalling the game?

**Prince_of_Macedon** · May 01, 2008, 02:23 PM

I know you said you didn't want to uninstall anything, but I would. I'd uninstall everything, and then re-install.

As for unlocking factions, check the stickied thread by clicking here. Read Commander_Vimes post on the subject.

**Confederate Jeb** · May 01, 2008, 02:48 PM

Well I set up my descr_strat like that guy has it and it still does the same thing....man I really don't want to uninstall the game. I have a seluecid file where I own the entire east and more, and I still have the same faction leader from the beginning of the game and he is 111...

**zhangxy** · May 01, 2008, 04:00 PM

If that's the case, I would go into your save folder and copy everything to another location. Then reinstall the game. Afterwards, put those save files back into your save folder.

Hope it helps

**Xavier Dragnesi** · May 01, 2008, 05:24 PM

I would uninstall as well, just keeping the saves. It actually asks if you want to keep the saves or not when you do uninstall. Something has obviously gone wrong with your other files, so reinstall is your best option.

**Confederate Jeb** · May 01, 2008, 06:22 PM

Yeah I knew you can keep saves, I just was thinking what would be best. So I'll probably be uninstalling and reinstalling sometime soon. Thanks guys.

**Prince_of_Macedon** · May 01, 2008, 06:31 PM

Alright, in the meantime, I'm going to put this in the Technical Help Section in case someone else passes by with better technical help.

**Confederate Jeb** · May 03, 2008, 11:36 AM

Ok thanks. I couldn't find it until just now LOL. Anyway, I'm taking your advice and uninstalling the game. I've already uninstalled BI, but I want to save some of my saved files from RTW, and it isn't giving me an option to do that. If I can just fgiure that out, I can get through the rest hopefully. How can I get this option to pop up?

**irishron** · May 03, 2008, 01:20 PM

Just move your save folder to a temp folder and move it back when you're through installing.

**Confederate Jeb** · May 03, 2008, 01:37 PM

How would I do that? I'm not the most knowledgable computer person LOL.

Well, I took all of the advice I've gotten so far and put it to use, and now the game doesn't work. Great...

**Brusilov** · May 04, 2008, 03:39 AM

The problem is that you've done a combination of things. You started to uninstall the game (removing BI), which you didn't need to do.

If you followed the details shown in post #2 (which will link you to this post http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showp...73&postcount=3 ) then there would not be any problem.

If you've been modifying files and don't know how to take a copy of a folder then anything could have happened.

The problem is only you know what you've done on your system - we can only react to what you post.

The fact that you lost the ability to play movies is a bit of a worry. If you could play them from the start and then they stopped playing then something has happened on your PC. The movies are played using Windows Media Player - something may have corrupted the install so I'd suggest re-installing that.

I'd suggest taking a copy of the save game folder, removing all traces of RTW from your PC and starting from scratch with the install process. However, I am not sure from your posts that you would be capable of doing that.