How to make a backup copy for mods?

[fhaggis]

Hi,
Can anyone tell me how to make a backup copy of RTW so i can play mods?
cheers

[♔Lord Stason♔]

It's really simple, follow as shown below

Go to your program files and locate the installed folders for Rome total war.

It should be named either 'Activision' or 'The Creative Assembley' (depending how old your RTW game is)

Once you opened it up it should read 'Rome - Total War' literatly right click and copy it and paste it in the window opened. If asked to replace existing files and folders click no.

It should after being pasted look like Rome - Total War(2) or Rome - Total War copy and there you go done and dusted.

depending how many mods you can copy it more then once but make sure they don't have the same name!

When you want to play the game from your copied folder incert the cd and go into the folder and click the shortcut to launch game it should load the game to the files existing in the folder. So thats how you get your vanilla and mods without having to un-install all the time to play a different mod.

Hope that helped

Further more if you want to install a mod to the copied folder you should select the copied folder in the installation process when the installing the mod. (please note not all mods may have this option so keep an eye out when installing if you don't get prompted to choose it's installation destination, because it will automatically install to your vanilla original folder.)

[fhaggis]

It's really simple, follow as shown below

Go to your program files and locate the installed folders for Rome total war.

It should be named either 'Activision' or 'The Creative Assembley' (depending how old your RTW game is)

Once you opened it up it should read 'Rome - Total War' literatly right click and copy it and paste it in the window opened. If asked to replace existing files and folders click no.

It should after being pasted look like Rome - Total War(2) or Rome - Total War copy and there you go done and dusted.

depending how many mods you can copy it more then once but make sure they don't have the same name!

When you want to play the game from your copied folder incert the cd and go into the folder and click the shortcut to launch game it should load the game to the files existing in the folder. So thats how you get your vanilla and mods without having to un-install all the time to play a different mod.

Hope that helped

Further more if you want to install a mod to the copied folder you should select the copied folder in the installation process when the installing the mod. (please note not all mods may have this option so keep an eye out when installing if you don't get prompted to choose it's installation destination, because it will automatically install to your vanilla original folder.)

Brilliant, thanks very much!

[juvenus]

Hi,
Can anyone tell me how to make a backup copy of RTW so i can play mods?
cheers

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Just copy/paste game folder as much as you want and install mods in one of those RTW/BI folders..........

[Phillieas_Caesar]

Does this work for steam as well?

[♔Lord Stason♔]

Does this work for steam as well?

Have no idea, do you have same similar folders or is it in appdata same as Empire?

[Phillieas_Caesar]

Have no idea, do you have same similar folders or is it in appdata same as Empire?

I almost sure its appdata.

[♔Lord Stason♔]

Go program files, find the Steam folder first. open it up and then locate the folder named 'SteamApps'

Open the folder up, look for the folder 'common' open that up.

Now for me i can see folders of games that i have installed that are steam compatable in your instance, you should see RTW folder could be named The creative Assembley either or.

Same principle as before, copy it, rename it to any name you want and then if you want to mod it download, load the install to that folders location. I don't know what sort of files are in there, if it's packfiles like empire i don't think mods will be compatable.

Hope that helped.

[Phillieas_Caesar]

The mod works I just wanted to know because i would like to play multiple mods but hate having to re download rtw from steam.