can't start rome total war

**Samuel the Great** · May 14, 2008, 05:12 PM

Whenever i try to start Rome total war it doesn't work.I have tried reinstalling many times.I have no idea why it does this.I have had for a really long time.I have had many mods for it.It slowly has started having more CTDs and now this were it won't even start.

**irishron** · May 14, 2008, 05:23 PM

Do you have the same problem with other games? Did it work okay before you loaded the last mod? Did you change any hardware or software?

**Samuel the Great** · May 14, 2008, 06:50 PM

I do not have this problem with other games.It worked okay before the mod.After Rome total realism it wasn't the same though.That was the start of the end i think.But i have completly erased and reinstalled the game countless times,sometimes it will work for a little then it always stops working.Even if it does it takes forever to start.

**irishron** · May 14, 2008, 07:05 PM

Did you use the uninstaller or try to manually uninstall it? Did you delete the RTW folder(s) afterwards? Did you clean the registry of RTW and the mods?

**Samuel the Great** · May 14, 2008, 08:07 PM

I manually uninstalled it and then deleted RTW folders afterwords.I don't know what u mean by cleaning the registry of RTW and the mods,so i might not have done that.What is it and how do u do it?

**irishron** · May 14, 2008, 08:10 PM

Go to www.eusing.com and download their free registry cleaner, install it, and run it. That should solve most of your problems.

**Samuel the Great** · May 14, 2008, 08:41 PM

So i scaned and repaired with that thing.It said i couldn't zero with it,i clicked close,i don't know if i did it right,but all the over 1400 problems disapeared right after that.Did i do the right thing?

**irishron** · May 14, 2008, 09:54 PM

Yes. Reinstall time.

**Samuel the Great** · May 18, 2008, 10:56 AM

K.I will get to that hopefully by the end of today.

**Samuel the Great** · May 18, 2008, 07:17 PM

Well,i tryed to reinstall.I first inserted the disc,then waited about 5 minutes while the little light under the CD drive told me it was thinking.I then tryed to start it manually by going into my computer right clicking on the CDrom drive and pressing auto run,i then waited about 5 more minutes , nothing happened, then I opened the game up to its files on the CD rom drive and pressed launch waited about another 5 minutes and still nothing happened.I am wondering if I will ever be able to play my beloved Rome total war again.What is happening?

**irishron** · May 19, 2008, 03:47 AM

Does your drive work on other cds?

**Samuel the Great** · May 19, 2008, 07:18 PM

This is the only CD i have problems with.

**irishron** · May 20, 2008, 03:55 AM

It sounds like a bad disk. Are there any scratches on it? If so, contact Sega for a peplacement.

**Samuel the Great** · May 20, 2008, 03:10 PM

Many scratches actually,how do i contact Sega for replacement?

**irishron** · May 20, 2008, 03:30 PM

www.sega.com. Look around for support for this game, and keep clicking links until you get one you can tell them what your problem is and they will help you.

**Cap** · May 23, 2008, 01:59 PM

I belive u using windows XP and i dont think u deleted all files( im prrety sure u have 1 or 2 files left in Windows/Prefetch)The best way to locate them would be go start/Search/All Files and Folders/ and type for search Rome TW and delet them.If this wont work for u heres a full unistall and just follow the steps and it will give you 100 % fixed on ur problem.

1) Click Start then Run.
2) At the prompt type: REGEDIT. The registry editor will open.
3) Click the "+" next to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE.
4) Click the "+" next to SOFTWARE.
5) Click the "+" next to The Creative Assembly
6) Right-Click to delete the The Creative Assembly entry.
7) Click the "+" next to HKEY_CURRENT_USER.
8) Click the "+" next to SOFTWARE.
9) Click the "+" next to The Creative Assembly
10) Right-Click to delete the The Creative Assembly entry.
11) Close the registry editor.
Once the registry keys are removed, we'll need to remove the game files from your hard drive. These instructions assume you've installed the game in the default directory.
1) Double-click My Computer.
2) Double-click the C:\ drive.
3) Double-click Program Files.
4) Double-click Total War
4) Right-click on the Rome: Total War folder and choose delete.
Remove the RomeTW.ini file from your hard drive.
12) Click the Start button > Find (or Search) > Files & Folders.
13) Search your C:\ drive for a file named RomeTW
14) The file should be located in C:\WINDOWS.
15) Delete this file.
16) Reboot your machine. At this point the game is completely removed from your system.