Can't play

[Greek60]

I cannot join any online games, all the text is red and it says host's game verision differs from yours. What am I missing?

[Keiichi]

Are you running any mods?

[Greek60]

No, I just reinstalled the game like an hour ago to make sure

[Turumba]

Are you running any mods?

This or try to update the game. Maybe you disabled auto update...

[Greek60]

It is set on auto update, is there something I have to manually download?

[Turumba]

Did steam update your Empire after the reinstalling? If not, go to My Games in the steambrowser, rightclick on Empire and click updates, if its not there- click properties. You will see local data, i guess (i got a german version). There is a option, something like verify game cache. Try this. If somethings missing, steam will download the missing files.

Otherwise, i have no idea, but would suggest a visit in the tech help and do searching- i dont think its a big thing: http://www.twcenter.net/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=1074

[TheAussieDigger]

if its the correct version, it should say "Empire: Total War V1.5" in the bottom left-hand corner

[{GODS}Scipio_Africanus]

you have something in the data file probably, look for anything abnormal, one of my friends had a portion of a mod on and it crashed his game before he could ever start it, a week later i told him to check and he found a loc file for a mod just sitting in one of the folders for empire total war, reinstalling doesn't take it out, he tried that too.

[Turumba]

you have something in the data file probably, look for anything abnormal, one of my friends had a portion of a mod on and it crashed his game before he could ever start it, a week later i told him to check and he found a loc file for a mod just sitting in one of the folders for empire total war, reinstalling doesn't take it out, he tried that too.

To do what GODS CLAN SECOND suggest, have a look here:
http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?t=331197 (if you still in need of it, Greek60)