problem with steam....help please

[Actaeon]

when i try to open TGW a window pops up and says that it cannot find steam. if anyone has any info on how i can fix this thatd be awesome.

thanks

[cpdwane]

Sorry, can't help you there. I know nothing about how steam works with Rome: Total War. Selucos may not be able to help you either, but I think what you described might be a common problem with mods and steam. Do you have any other mods that work with steam? It might be wise to check on the froums of other mods to see if anyone else has the same issue.

[Seleucos of Olympia]

Hi. I remember someone else in the past asking about a similar Steam problem, but I have not been able to find the relevant posts. This appears to be an issue for all mods when RTW runs through Steam, so I imagine there's some non-mod-specific technical support thread for this. Sadly, I don't operate my RTW through Steam, so I'm not sure what to change to make it work properly. I'll get back to you if I come across some easy solution.

[Actaeon]

thanks guys. yea ive tried some digging around and couldnt find anything.....friggan steam.

[Seleucos of Olympia]

I've found this in the RTR FAQ which might be of use:

10) How can I play RTR with Steam?

1. Run the FoE installer like normal, changing the install path to xxxx/steam/steamapps/common/rome total war gold
2. Ignore the launcher and short-cut prompts, they won't work
3. Open Steam, right-click on Rome: Total War Gold in the My Games menu
4. Select Properties
5. Under the General tab select Set launch options ...
6. Type in -mod:FOE -show_err -nm without quotations and click OK
7. Launch Rome: Total War Gold by double-clicking it in the My Games menu
8. Select Barbarian Invasion from the two-choice list and Launch.

(in this case it should be -mod:TGW -show_err -nm)

If you try it, please tell me if it works.

[Actaeon]

k ima bout to try it ill letcha know if it works. thanks btw

[vertol]

Hi!

Unfortunately i have the same problem, and it did not help me. The games starts, but when i click on imperial campaign, i get a message that says "Please select an item from the list", and i cant continue. There are neither list nor items.

Maybe any more idea? Thank you.

[dacder]

Hi!

Unfortunately i have the same problem, and it did not help me. The games starts, but when i click on imperial campaign, i get a message that says "Please select an item from the list", and i cant continue. There are neither list nor items.

Maybe any more idea? Thank you.

Go to provincil campaign,click the greek wars and there you go.
hope it works!!

[vertol]

There is province campaign, i can click on it, but there is only one campaign in it: "Imperial Campaign" with the three original roman houses. It works but its like the normal RTW. I really dont understand.

[dacder]

There is province campaign, i can click on it, but there is only one campaign in it: "Imperial Campaign" with the three original roman houses. It works but its like the normal RTW. I really dont understand.

make sure you installed right.

[Actaeon]

yea it works.....thanks a bunch man id hug ya but i cant put my arms through the internet.

[Seleucos of Olympia]

You're welcome.

[cpdwane]

That problem sounds to me to be more to do with not having the latest patch, but I'm afraid I don't know how patching Romte Total war on steam works.

[Achron]

I have a different problem, but didn't think it warrented a new thread (correct me if I'm wrong). The game runs just fine and its pure awesome, but when I was doing a custom battle with 2 full armies, a popup came up that said something to the tune of, "Amont of units surpasses the recomended settings." Or something like that... Anyway, the in-game got some real lag to it. I was wondering what thats about, considering I'd never had the issue in RTW before. Could anyone help out?

[cpdwane]

That must be something to do with you having your settings too high. It will be beacuse the preferences file (which sets your defualt graphics settings ect) will have come from the one uploaded with the game. Those settings are probably too high for your system. If you go into Options- Graphic and change the settings there to match what you have when you play your vanilla game, and it should work just fine.

[Hopit]

aww steam is great but they like to hide the file folders...

here let me tell you how to find them..

first go to program files or w.e and find the steam folder.
then click on SteamAps folder. then open the common folder.

You should have all your games folders in here open up RTW and install the mod.

Because I am not certain if this mod is mod-foldered or not, I will post two solutions.

Now the first option is that the mod is NOT mod foldered, in which case it makes things slightly less complicated.

I shall assume, that upon installation of the mod, a shortcut is created on your desktop, now obviously, as with all rtw and m2tw mods Ive experienced, these shortcuts are not designed to work with steam, so you have to tweak them slightly.

First and foremost, right click on the shortcut which has been created, then click properties.

Look in the "Start in:" line and make sure the following is written there, if not then copy this line over whatever is written:

"C:\Program Files\Steam\steamapps\common\rome total war gold"

Assuming that you have indeed installed the mod to rome total war gold,
that is the line which should be written at "Start in:".

Now, after this has been clarified, theres 2 diffrent ways, one for non-mod foldered mods and one for mod foldered mods
(p.s. sorry for repeating the same word like six times in a row, it is slightly annoying)

For NON-mod foldered mods, go to the shortcuts properties as instructed earlier, and copy the following line over whatever is written in "Target :"

"C:\Program Files\Steam\Steam.exe" -applaunch 4760

This line works for me using roma surrectum, which isnt mod-foldered, and should work for other such mods in the same way, the shortcut will now launch the mod through steam.

(Edit : from fully reading the opening post, I realise the mod isnt foldered, and thus will override vanilla rtw, in that case, All I can say is, make a copy of the rome total war gold folder, and then install the mod unto your rome total war gold folder, if you want to play vanilla again, just exchange the folders, otherwise, the mod needs to be contained within its own folder which is up to the developers of the mod).

Now for mods which are mod-foldered, its similiar, but slightly diffrent, you copy a diffrent version of the line shown above,

A few examples for mod-foldered mods lines such as:

Europa Barbaroum :

"C:\Program Files\Steam\Steam.exe" -applaunch 4760 -show_err -nm -mod:EB

Rome total Realism platinum edition :

"C:\Program Files\Steam\Steam.exe" -applaunch 4760 -mod:RTRPE -show_err -nm

Rise of Persia :

"C:\Program Files\Steam\Steam.exe" -applaunch 4760 -show_err -nm -mod:ROP

As you can see, these lines are quite similiar, except in two things, the intials of the mod you want to use (ROP,RTRPE,EB) and the actual structure of the launch line, as it seems there are two diffrent versions of launch lines for these mods.
Now because I dont which structure belongs to BOA, I suggest people to try the following launch lines (assuming the name of the folder containing the mod is BOA, if not then change BOA to the correct name of the folder containing the mod) :

"C:\Program Files\Steam\Steam.exe" -applaunch 4760 -show_err -nm -mod:BOA

"C:\Program Files\Steam\Steam.exe" -applaunch 4760 -mod:BOA -show_err -nm

Assuming the name of the folder containing the mod is BOA, one of these launch lines should do the trick, I just discovered this mod, and therefore have not downloaded it yet, so, itll take me a while before I can test my own suggestions.

~Regards RCOG.

oh and you could add that info to download page

[Kataphrack]

Hey, I've been trying to get this mod working with steam but I have a problem. I only downloaded ver 1.01 (non patch) and extracted it to my rome total war folder in steam. Perhaps I need to download every version to get it working? I used the suggestions in this thread like going into steam and changing the set launch options... to what was recommended and I combined that with the information given in the previous post about where to place the files and what to change the start in and target information too. However I'm not sure that I linked the TGW mod to steam properly; I had to change my location from the default to match up with where I placed my steam folders. In the end I start the game with the Barbarian Invasion option and can get as far as the provincial campaigns but I only have the option to play the Imperial campaign. I'm sure I must have missed something but I can't seem to figure it out. Oh I just remembered something I couldn't find the tgw.bat folder that I was supposed to run and I'm going to check for it again right now. I hope this was enough information, if not let me know and I'll provide what's needed.

[Seleucos of Olympia]

I don't have RTW through Steam, which is why I've always been embarrassingly inept at helping people with it (and why we've stickied this thread rather than giving any set instructions). I can tell you though that TGW is designed to run through the normal RTW exe, not the Barbarian Invasion one, so starting with the latter as an option sounds like a bad move.

[Kataphrack]

Good news I was able to get it working through steam although it does take some work to get around it. In case anyone else has trouble with steam the way I got around it was pretty simple once I figured it out.

1. You need to have your target and start-in description, in the properties of 'The Greek Wars' shortcut, match your steam, I copy and pasted the location from my Rome Total War Gold properties for my start in this should be pretty simple you can check what the last post on the 1st page of this thread for details.

2. The target info gets a bit more tricky and was causing problems for me. You need to combine the information again from the last post on the 1st page with the location of your steam files but also keeping the info that was already written in the description for target. For easier understanding of what I'm talking about here's what I have put in my target - "D:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\Steam.exe" -applaunch 4760-show_err -nm -mod:tgw -enable_editor -movie_cam - now this may not be the case for you it all depends on where you placed your steam files to begin with. I had to change the location of the files to match steam and add the 'applaunch 4760' but you MUST keep the info starting with -show_err- this should already be in the info so it's a matter of not erasing it.

3. I was able to run the mod by using "run as administrator" from 'The Greek Wars' shortcut; not through steam which was interesting because it started up steam in order to play the game. So shortcut not steam.

Note: The info provided on the previous page about changing the start up... description or whatever it was in the steam properties for Rome Total War changed my BI expansion into regular Rome Total War. Now like I said before I used the shortcut to start up the mod not steam so I'm not sure whether or not it is required, but I do have it changed to what was recommended in that post. If what I posted doesn't work use the steps 1 to 8 provided by Seleucos of Olympia in the previous page in addition to what I did and it should work for you.

I hope that can clear up any future confusion on the issue, remember you need to extract the zip file to Rome Total War file located within steamapps and common.

The mod looks great by the way, I'm enjoying playing around with it. Great work!