Rome total war installation error

**penquin11** · September 04, 2008, 03:34 PM

Ok i keep on getting this error and since a picture i worth a thousand i put an attachement plz help

**Legio** · September 04, 2008, 05:46 PM

I see you are having trouble with the disc. Is it scratched up?
Try running CDCheck on the faulty disc and it should be fine.

Instructions on using it are here.

**pbslayer** · September 04, 2008, 07:10 PM

I have the same problem and haven't been able to fix it apparently no body knows how to take care of this. Can you please let me know if you were able to take care of this and how.

**Brusilov** · September 05, 2008, 01:59 AM

Originally Posted by pbslayer

I have the same problem and haven't been able to fix it apparently no body knows how to take care of this. Can you please let me know if you were able to take care of this and how.

As this is your first post how can it be that nobody has been able to help you?

There are numerous posts about this in the forum with advice on what to do. If you use the search facility you will find them.

**pchalk** · September 20, 2008, 05:52 PM

ok lol i was about to post asking for help but on my third try it worked. I was getting the same exact message as in the screenshot of the first post. The missing file it refers to is actually on disk 2. My guess is that possibly vista had trouble figuring out that it needed to prompt disk 2. Of course my reasoning could be wrong. Anyway my advice is to just keep trying to install assuming there isnt any other solution.

**pchalk** · September 24, 2008, 10:06 PM

ok

i needed to reinstall and now i cant seem to get it working again. I tried like 10 times. Any ideas?

**irishron** · September 24, 2008, 11:18 PM

Is disc2 scratched or dirty? That would keep it from reading it. I had Rome on a Vista system with no problems so I don't blame Microfoft, yet. Did you delete all traces of Rome from your system including the virtual sore? Did you afterward run a registry cleaner to get out the garbage? As Brusilov said, did you look here: http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showt...ght=reinstall?
How about here: http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showt...ght=reinstall?
Vista? More than you want know: http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?t=89969.

Seek and ye shall find. It just takes a little effort. I just pulled up all these links in less than five minutes and the only word I used was "install".

**pchalk** · September 25, 2008, 12:43 PM

Originally Posted by irishron

Is disc2 scratched or dirty? That would keep it from reading it. I had Rome on a Vista system with no problems so I don't blame Microfoft, yet. Did you delete all traces of Rome from your system including the virtual sore? Did you afterward run a registry cleaner to get out the garbage? As Brusilov said, did you look here: http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showt...ght=reinstall?
How about here: http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showt...ght=reinstall?
Vista? More than you want know: http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?t=89969.

Seek and ye shall find. It just takes a little effort. I just pulled up all these links in less than five minutes and the only word I used was "install".

well it isnt a disk problem or if anything its a Disk 1 problem as the installer gives me that error message instead of prompting to put in disk two which is what its supposed to do at that pt.

I have to thank you for your efforts some of these threads i did see some i hadnt. The main thing that leads me to believe that it isnt a registry problem or virtual store problem is that I was getting this error message the first time I tried to install (RTW had never been installed before).

Looking at disk 1 its got a bit of dust or a scratch in this one spot. Ive had bad experiences trying to clean disks myself so ill try and see if my old comp can read it first.

edit: actully ill try that cd check thing first lol

**pchalk** · September 25, 2008, 01:14 PM

i rant he check on disk 1 and 2 and it said no errors. damn this confuses me. I may try just installing on my old comp and copying the files over. Its a bit crude i know but its worked for me before on other games.

**Brusilov** · September 26, 2008, 01:43 AM

Originally Posted by pchalk

i rant he check on disk 1 and 2 and it said no errors. damn this confuses me. I may try just installing on my old comp and copying the files over. Its a bit crude i know but its worked for me before on other games.

The game still needs to be in the Windows Registry in order to play it (I believe).

**irishron** · September 26, 2008, 05:22 AM

Originally Posted by Brusilov

The game still needs to be in the Windows Registry in order to play it (I believe).

You are correct.

**pchalk** · September 26, 2008, 04:13 PM

I vaguely know how to manually ad the registry (i think :hmmm

. Do u guys know how id like to be sure before i start playing around in the registry

**Brusilov** · September 26, 2008, 05:48 PM

I've never really had to edit the registry. The following is a link to the 'Solutions to Common Problems' where the process is shown (for RTW 1.2)....

http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showt...65#post1180365