Installing EB with steam

[RCOG]

Seeing as many people tend to ask this question, Ive taken the liberty of writing a guide as to how to install EB into rome total war gold/rome total war Alexander.
The file also contains some explanations about some of the mod's new features.
Im sorry if this has been posted before, I just want to clarify the whole steam installation issue.

~Regards RCOG.

[Marku]

thanks mate, i needed this :-)

+rep for u

[shadowdrummer46]

+rep Thank you so much i was trying to figure this out for two days. Who woulda thought just installing EB directly into the Alexander folder would do it? lol THANKS AGAIN!!!

[Marku]

should be stickied IMO.

[mamik_yev_konak]

+rep Thank you so much i was trying to figure this out for two days. Who woulda thought just installing EB directly into the Alexander folder would do it? lol THANKS AGAIN!!!

Who wouldn't have thought that installing EB into the Alexander folder would work?

Only problem is that for those who install Trivial Script (99% of people), TS will only work with the very last installation of EB that you did. For that reason, if you're using Alex for single player purposes, make sure it's the first installation and that you install into the Rome Total War Gold folder last, so that you may still play multiplayer games via EB Online correctly.

[shadowdrummer46]

Who wouldn't have thought that installing EB into the Alexander folder would work?

Most mods are very specific in where you need to install. if you change the wrong text file and the game wont run. Not to mention no other posts other than this one tell you to install EB in the Alexander folder, most say move the alex.exe to the rtw...

[mamik_yev_konak]

Most mods are very specific in where you need to install. if you change the wrong text file and the game wont run. Not to mention no other posts other than this one tell you to install EB in the Alexander folder, most say move the alex.exe to the rtw...

Well, you usually don't need to move the ALX engine to the folder where RTW engine is located, because 99% of the time they are in the same folder. So in any case, nobody will tell you to move the engine. If you use Steam, moving engine will not work as applaunch mechanism file pointer will refer to only ALX engine within ALX engine installation directory, and any copies anywhere else will be utterly useless. Thankfully the ALX engine is simply a version of the RTW engine and thus with a sleight of hand (or in this case, sleight of text, modifying so that your generals don't live to be 999 years old), you can play this mod, or almost any mod, using the ALX engine. It's good stuff.

[shadowdrummer46]

agreed.

[johnhughthom]

I'm not sure Trivial Script works with a Steam install Vartan (it is you, right?). Anyway, I've never managed to get it to work with my Steam version, I'd be interested to hear of anyone who did.

[mamik_yev_konak]

I'm not sure Trivial Script works with a Steam install Vartan (it is you, right?). Anyway, I've never managed to get it to work with my Steam version, I'd be interested to hear of anyone who did.

It does work. It won't run your game but it doesn't have to. I use it to switch EDUs, and proceed to run the game by using my custom shortcut (steam exe with proper applaunch parameters along with mod:eb, etc.). I only need to use it because I'm the "King of the Tournament", as people have called me in the networks. But if you just play single player, you need not the TS, since EB default installation comes pre-formatted for the SP EDU.

EDIT: And yeah John, it's me. I just had this nick for the longest time and had not used it at all until during the past few month.

[shadowdrummer46]

http://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showth...1-ALEXANDER-EB, anway I was being sarcastic but I still think this should be stickied to help those of us with steam, since that seems to be where most new users are coming from, me included.

[WarLikeMashimaro]

I need some help over here with installing this EB mod.
I already installed it in steam version RTW folder and I can start the game.
However when I tried to start the campaign, there will be a new window "ActiveMovie" comes up and everything stopped working there...
Can anyone advise me how to solve this problem...?
this may be repeat of another tread, but that tread at http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?t=216829 doesn't provide any useful information.

Thanks in advance.

[XSamatan]

Welcome to the forum!

Try to add -nm to the end of your shortcuts target line if you followed the guide, this will disable movies.

XSamatan

[ccgr1121]

*bump*

This really should be stickied

[YD23]

Done.
I hope local mods do not mind. : \

[TurtleMerc]

Thank you so much! You are my savior! I just recently got back into these games after a two year absence. I lost all my old game cds so I bought RTW gold through steam. I installed EB but couldn't for the life of me figure out why it wouldn't work. I all but gave up till I came across this thread and read your instructions. When you mentioned where your game folder was located it clicked! I didnt realize steam installed all purchased games in ITS own folder. Apparently I never uninstalled my old game so I was installing EB in my old (dead) game folder and not in the new version I'm using through steam. You can imagine my frustration when it kept telling me I needed to insert the cd for a digitally downloaded game lol. Thanks again!!!!

[Cuauchiquetl]

Dude you are awesome, I cannot believe this worked, its the first time I play a mod on Steam.

[raistlinmajere8]

the link for the file that we have to DL is dead................ for installing with Alexander...

[Skivvies]

So, I followed the instructions, but step 5 never happened. Can someone possibly assist me?

[STUFF]

I got a "Failed to Find Steam" ...reason why?