kingdoms launch crash

[Wicia]

Hi

I've got the same problem as mentioned here
http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?t=258111
but this thread has been closed so I am forced to make a new one. The solution from this one is not satisfying to me, because although it lets me play the kingdoms campaigns, without a properly working kingdoms.exe the mods won't work. Is there any way around this bug? Thanks for help, Witek

[irishron]

kingdoms.exe is not a standalone executable. It has to be tied to something like one of the campaigns or a mod.
Where it is tied to the mod is in is .bat file of which Retrofit mod's looks like this:
cd ..\..
kingdoms.exe @mods\retrofit\medieval2.retrofit.cfg

and it does work. I have played Retrofit to prove it.

There is no other way. There is something wrong in the install or location of the mod because otherwise it's pretty foolproof.
If it's a bad install, reinstall it. If you installed it someplace besides its default, you can edit the path in the .bat file to make them match.

You will only get ctd or worse clicking on kingdoms.exe because it goes no place. You have to tell it where in a .bat file.
DOS still rules.

[Wicia]

thanks a lot!

it's funny though, before reinstalling the game I was getting the same error running Deus Lo Vult as running kingdoms.exe alone. I noticed thas DLV uses kingdoms.exe so I thought the problem was with the file. However, after reinstalling DLV starts itself, although there are still some problems with it but for solving these I'll check the DLV forum



Just one more small question- is there a patch allowing to turn a polish version of medieval (and kingdoms) to an english one?

[irishron]

No.

[Wicia]

now that's a sad thing considering the quality of the polish translation;]

Thanks a lot anyway! I'm off to enjoy the DLV

[irishron]

Enjoy DLV.

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