I'm having some trouble upgrading to 1.7.
I had my wife download it from work (we have dialup at home) and transfer it to our gaming computer. So I double-click the patch on the desktop and see the WinRAR message (WinRAR isn't free; buy it after 40 days, etc), close out of that, and extract the patch to the C:/Program Files/Activision/Rome - Total War directory. The progress bar does its thing and I start the game, but it still says it's version 1.6.
So I came here and read around. In another thread, MoN had suggested extracting the patch to a temporary file and then copying it into the directory, so I do that: delete the patch from the Total War directory first, then create a new folder, extract the patch there, and copy it over.
Still no luck: still on version 1.6.
Any ideas? Looking in the directory it seems to have installed - I can see the patch 1.7 sitting there among the other files and folders. It just hasn't changed the game.