Please help me with Rome total realism

[davidliao623]

Hey members and admins

I need some help with my Rome total realism installation. I brought a Rome:Total War gold edition which contain Rome:Total War+Babarian Invasion and it is already version 1.5 when I installed it. Then someday I came across this Rome:total realism thingie. So I looked at how to download it and install it. So I just did what it says

The Preferred RTW-BI Method for installing RTR Platinum v1.9:

1. Install Rome Total War.
2. Install Barbarian Invasion expansion.
3. Install the BI v1.6 Patch.
4. Download and install the RTR Platinum Full Install.
5. [Optional] Download and install the Optional Add-ons for RTRPE v1.9.

I got both RTW and BI when I installed it therefore when I looked at other installation I assumed its this one. So literally I skipped the first 2 step. Then I got the 1.6 patch off internet but it doesn't let me install since it says not competiable for gold edition. So I then download the RTR Platinum Full Install and installed it.

Blah Blah Blah then everything is done and 3 new icons appeared on my desktop and they are Multi-player Battle Reset, RTR Platinum BI, RTR Platinum and then I cliked on the RTR Platanium one and then it say Window is searching for the file Rome Total War.exe and I just clicked explorer on the bottom and clicked on my original Rome Total War Icon. Then everything is fine until I got into the game. Everything is still the same and nothing changed. Therefore I think I just basically installed it wrong.

So can anybody just help me how to fix this problem plz guys I am counting on you. Plz just give me a list of instruction like above becuase I am quite not a game patch user so literllay I am noob at these kind of patch installing. THank-you guys!!!

[Father Jack]

Welcome, wrong forum though.

Moderator, move this to the RTR forum

[Heinz Guderian]

Davidliao, seek out a man called Florin80. Some say he is just a legend. Others say he the most badass member on TWC. All i know is that i love Florin80. He will help you like no other man can.

God speed. Good luck.

[Antissa]

Hi there davidliao623,

it appears that you have may installed the RTR data files into the wrong folder ; )

First, you should know that Rome Total War:Gold Edition is fully patched, so there's no need to download and install patch v1.6.
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As for your question, during installation Rome Total War:Gold Edition will create a folder called, 'The Creative Assembly-Rome Total War' in 'Program Files'. The last time I checked, the target folder destination for the RTR Installer is directed at, 'Activision-Rome Total War'

How to fix your issue:

1) Simply start up the RTR Installer, and change the target folder to, 'The Creative Assembly-Rome Total War'
2) Find the folder, 'Activision-Rome Total War' and send it to the Recycle Bin.

All the best.

[Pontifex Maximus]

Moved to a support forum. I am not sure if this is the exact perfect place for this however.

[Kylan271]

I found the same glitch where Activision was target files,yet my game is in Creative Assembly,lol. I had problem with computer crash and could not uninstal RTW correctly, it was listed in add/remove programs but would not delete!!!! I learnt it is still shown in regristry files. Some programs will not move from 'add/remove',so you have to edit your regristry to delete them. I am not sure if helpful for this forum,but the data is here how,for newbies like me.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314481

[Delvecchio1975]

then I cliked on the RTR Platanium one and then it say Window is searching for the file Rome Total War.exe and I just clicked explorer on the bottom and clicked on my original Rome Total War Icon.

the path in the properties of your RTR platinum icon is wrong. check it and adjust it to point at the folder where your rome total war.exe is situated. let us know how you get on