help

[neill cowansd]

played tw )med1)shogun)rome
bought eras cant play alexander
bought med2 wont play
told abought patches cant get them
novice with internet
frustrated why couldnt they make them to play on there own
frustrated i cant play
please help

[Prince_of_Macedon]

played tw )med1)shogun)rome
bought eras cant play alexander
bought med2 wont play
told abought patches cant get them
novice with internet
frustrated why couldnt they make them to play on there own
frustrated i cant play
please help

Moving to the Technical Help section where people can answer your question regarding Med 1, Shogun and R:TW.

As for Medieval II, you'll have to post your question in the Medieval II Technical Help section.

[Legio]

Do you have all of these tw games installed at once? Delete all and then do disk defragmenter, disk cleanup, and reinstall RTW.
Gice us more info, are any of these games from steam or something?
Patches I can give you the links to soon.
First calm down and let's take one thing at a time, I think I can help you.
Patch 1.5 for RTW
Patch 1.6 for BI
1.9 patch of Alexander is already on the disc.

[irishron]

Neill, welcome to the forums, frustrated and all. Would you give us your computer specs, please?

[Brusilov]

As the others have posted - welcome to the forum.

Apart from the spec of your PC you also need to supply a bit more information on the "can't play / won't play" problems with the games.

With RTW you can launch the game using a windows shortcut - when the game was installed an icon should appear on your desktop. Edit that shortcut by clicking it with the right mouse button - make sure it has the "-show_err" switch. Quite often this switch will trap error messages and display them on exit of the game.

The following is an example that I use to play RY+TR VII TIC 1.1; "C:\Program Files\Activision\RTR_VII_TIC_1.1\RomeTW-BI.exe" -show_err -mod:TIC -movie_cam

It is possible to play the games without the patches - the patches either improve gameplay or fix problems in the games (usually things that don't function properly rather than game breaking crashes).

Once we get one TW game working we can worry about the next M2:TW....