Question about installation

[Lord of Lost Socks]

Do I have to uninstall the previous version of Broken Crescent to get 2.0 to work? As you can see from the show your empires thread I have a pretty awesome campaign going on in BC 1.05, but I'd also like to try out the latest version. Is it possible?

[wudang_clown]

This is from BROKEN CRESCENT: 2.0 + PATCH 2.02 Preview, Download, Installation instructions & Troubleshooting thread:

II. Preparation for installment

BC 2.0 will install in a separate mod folder, and it will not interfere with your other mods or the original game. Follow the instructions below to ensure most optimum installation and bug free play.

• Start with uninstalling previous version of BC (1.0 or 1.05), and MTW2.
• Install Medieval Total War 2 (vanilla game)
• Patch to version 1.3
• Defragment your drive
• For people who extract their MTW2 files, you cannot have the BC 2.0 and extracted files in the same root folder (SEGA/MTW2) Instead extract your files in separate domain. Failure to do so may crash the BC in some cases.
• Continue to installation steps

III. Installation

• Start the installer by running bc20.exe
• The installer will automatically detect your M2TW installation folder, if this does not work manually select your main M2TW directory, (e.g. C:\Program Files\SEGA\Medieval II Total War)
• Select your original game version (ENGLISH vs. NON-ENGLISH) and start the installation process (NOTE: wrong selection here will cause CTD issues!)
• Start the game with the Broken Crescent shortcut on your desktop

IV. Installation with the M2TW Gold Edition

Users of the M2TW Gold Edition please follow these steps to install BC correctly.

• Install the M2TW Gold Edition with at least one Kindoms expansion and update Kingdoms to version 1.5
• Install BC 2.0
• Install the bc.cfg file from here.
• Apply BC patch 2.02
• Locate the map.rwm file in Medieval II Total War/broken_crescent/data/world/maps/base and click "compatibility files", then delete the map.rwm

Note: map.rwm is not locatable using any search features, you may have to do it manually.

[Lord of Lost Socks]

Yes. I've seen it. My question was is it necessary. I mean, I never uninstalled my Medieval2 the first time and it's worked fine. But I don't want to risk ruining my campaign without being sure that it'll work.

[wudang_clown]

But you've asked whether it is necessary to uninstal previous versions - yes, it is. If it comes to M2TW, you don't have to do this.