Wrong Disc Inserted.

**Spartan198** · January 27, 2011, 04:25 AM

Originally Posted by PoleCat

How exactly did you make a copy of the game before? Did you use third-party software to burn the image to a DVD by chance and then apply the retail patch after the fact on that ISO?

No, no third party software. I just made a backup copy of the Medieval 2 Total War folder by right clicking and copy/pasting it, that way I have a clean, unmodified backup of the game files in case something goes wrong and I installed this patch incorrectly.

Exactly what patch are you trying to install that's causing the problem? Is it a patch for the Vanilla M2 or the 1.5 patch for Kingdoms?

What patch version is your backup - 1.5 I'm guessing for Kingdoms. Are you sure you're applying the correct patch - Gold, non-Gold, Region specific, etc.?

Good luck!

My Kingdoms is 1.4 before the patch, I'm trying to install the Kingdoms 1.5 patch for the US gold edition.

**PoleCat** · January 27, 2011, 05:24 AM

Originally Posted by Spartan198

I can play Medieval 2 just fine, but not any of the Kingdoms campaigns. I keep being told to insert the correct disc and the disc I'm using is the only disc I have. Yet when I delete the main folder containing the patched game files and replace it with the backup copy I made prior to installation of the patch, everything works fine.

I use Vista and I've made doubly sure I installed the right patch.

Originally Posted by Spartan198

No, no third party software. I just made a backup copy of the Medieval 2 Total War folder by right clicking and copy/pasting it, that way I have a clean, unmodified backup of the game files in case something goes wrong and I installed this patch incorrectly.

My Kingdoms is 1.4 before the patch, I'm trying to install the Kingdoms 1.5 patch for the US gold edition.

Just to be sure - you're using Disc One of the Gold set to try to run Kingdoms? I'm sure you've checked but had to ask....

If the Kingdoms campaigns work perfectly well from the base 1.4 install but won't work after installing the patch then I'd say the patch is where you have the problem. Try downloading the patch from another mirror - maybe the patch you have is corrupted somehow.

Good luck!

**irishron** · January 25, 2011, 09:52 PM

Have you disabled the UAC?

Have you tried this? http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?t=397636

I did both before installing it in C:\Games.

**Spartan198** · January 25, 2011, 11:19 PM

My install isn't in Program Files (my installation path is C:\SEGA\Medieval II Total War) and I run all .exes with administrator permissions.

**irishron** · January 27, 2011, 07:55 AM

I'd say you still need to disable the UAC. http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/w...trol-on-or-off

Medieval2/Kingdoms and UAC are bitter enemies. Believe me.

**Spartan198** · March 31, 2011, 06:40 AM

A little bit late here...

I tried installing the patch and running the game with UAC off, still no go.

**irishron** · March 31, 2011, 07:36 AM

Are you trying to use the launcher for the Kingdoms campaigns or their icons? Are all the TW icons set to XP Compatible?

After this, I am out of ideas. Maybe time to ask Sega support.

**Spartan198** · March 31, 2011, 08:33 AM

Originally Posted by irishron

Are you trying to use the launcher for the Kingdoms campaigns or their icons?

I've tried both the launcher and the individual icons with the same result.

Are all the TW icons set to XP Compatible?

I'm running Vista, not XP.

**irishron** · March 31, 2011, 09:23 AM

Right click the icons, click properties, click Compatibility tab. Are all five icons checked like the picture?

**Spartan198** · April 01, 2011, 01:49 AM

^Yes, but the only thing is I don't have an option for XP Service Pack 3, only SP2.

But, anyhow, I seem to have figured out the problem. Since the US patch was causing it to not work and giving me this "wrong disc" error, I winged it and decided to try the UK and EU patches. I DLed the UK Gold patch first, installed it, and now everything starts up without even a hiccup.

So despite buying it in North America from a North America-based retailer, I apparently somehow ended up with the UK version of the game.

**irishron** · April 01, 2011, 07:31 AM

Originally Posted by Spartan198

^Yes, but the only thing is I don't have an option for XP Service Pack 3, only SP2.

But, anyhow, I seem to have figured out the problem. Since the US patch was causing it to not work and giving me this "wrong disc" error, I winged it and decided to try the UK and EU patches. I DLed the UK Gold patch first, installed it, and now everything starts up without even a hiccup.

So despite buying it in North America from a North America-based retailer, I apparently somehow ended up with the UK version of the game.

Canadian?

**Spartan198** · April 01, 2011, 09:40 AM

Well, I kinda forgot about Canada...

But the retailer I got it from was based in southern California, though.

But, oh well. That's all semantics now. It's working and I've got a whole new bunch of mods open to me now. Appreciate the assistance. Thanks.

**irishron** · April 01, 2011, 12:01 PM

Good one to remember. You may have got it because of your Canadian address. Thank you for sharing.

**Spartan198** · April 01, 2011, 12:19 PM

Canadian address? Uh, I live in central California.

**PoleCat** · April 01, 2011, 12:48 PM

Originally Posted by Spartan198

Canadian address? Uh, I live in central California.

Just an anecdotal story here. I bought an old game for my son that was long out of distribution through Amazon. When it got here it turned out to be a UK copy. So I had to use the UK patches for it. And I live in California too. When you get physical game discs for old games check to see what localization version they are. It can take some time hunting for that info though. Good luck!

**drquiz** · April 04, 2011, 09:06 PM

I clicked the link www.securom.com, when the box comes up for kingdoms, it took me to the site, closed the site and now vanilla works, now I will reinstall SS 6.3, hopefully. Thanks for the the advice . I had the exact problem on my XP, have not played in a month came back to play and the kingdoms.exe error hit.