Please Help!

[Collingwoodgang]

I have had Empire Total War on this machine almost since release. It has always worked fine. I uninstalled it a few months ago due to lack of play. I have since re-installed and now it wont launch correctly. I have a decently equipped machine that has run the game perfectly before. When I launch the game from Steam it opens in a 3/4 window instead of full screen. All I see is the very first title screen with the game name and copyright info then the game stops responding, goes white screen and I get the windows is searching for a solution ( which bears no fruit ). I have installed all windows updates, updated my video card drivers, uninstalled and reinstalled the game several times and there is no change. PLEASE someone tell me how to fix this! I love the total war series and have all of them but this is really frustrating! Iam not super computer savvy and don't know what half of this stuff means, but here is my system info:

OS Name Microsoft® Windows Vista™ Home Premium
Version 6.0.6002 Service Pack 2 Build 6002
Other OS Description Not Available
OS Manufacturer Microsoft Corporation
System Name BRANDON-PC
System Manufacturer HP-Pavilion
System Model NC747AA-ABA a6763w
System Type x64-based PC
Processor AMD Phenom(tm) 9150e Quad-Core Processor, 1800 Mhz, 4 Core(s), 4 Logical Processor(s)
BIOS Version/Date Phoenix Technologies, LTD 5.28, 12/18/2008
SMBIOS Version 2.4
Windows Directory C:\Windows
System Directory C:\Windows\system32
Boot Device \Device\HarddiskVolume1
Locale United States
Hardware Abstraction Layer Version = "6.0.6002.18005"
User Name Brandon-PC\Brandon
Time Zone Central Daylight Time
Installed Physical Memory (RAM) 7.00 GB
Total Physical Memory 7.00 GB
Available Physical Memory 4.23 GB
Total Virtual Memory 14.2 GB
Available Virtual Memory 11.1 GB
Page File Space 7.29 GB
Page File C:\pagefile.sys


Name NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GT
PNP Device ID PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_0605&SUBSYS_0BD219F1&REV_A2\4&3B4D693&0&0048
Adapter Type GeForce 9800 GT, NVIDIA compatible
Adapter Description NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GT
Adapter RAM 1.00 GB (1,073,741,824 bytes)
Installed Drivers nvd3dumx.dll,nvwgf2umx.dll,nvwgf2umx.dll,nvd3dum,nvwgf2um,nvwgf2um
Driver Version 8.17.11.9745
INF File oem55.inf (Section004 section)
Color Planes Not Available
Color Table Entries 4294967296
Resolution 1920 x 1080 x 59 hertz
Bits/Pixel 32

[karamazovmm]

we can see that your no pc savvy by your pc, jk

now

press windows key + r

type %appdata%

proceed to CA>ETW>scripts delete the user script

[Collingwoodgang]

Yea I wish I was not so Computer impaired. Just a simple minded grunt. Anyway, to even be more cavemanish, I did the first part of the suggestion by typing the appdata and got to the new search window, but I'am a bit lost from there. I typed the CA>ETW>scripts into the search box up top but came up nil.

[Collingwoodgang]

Nevermind. I think this dummy just figured it out. Will post again with results.

[Collingwoodgang]

Ok. Scripts folder deleted. Game now launches from Steam in full screen. I jumped for joy .... for a moment ... but once again it would not proceed past title screen. Goes to not responding and I had to Ctrl Alt Del out of the program. The mouse icon changed to the game arrow but that is all the progress I have achieved. Any other ideas?

[karamazovmm]

verifiy the game cache with steam

open steam

go to etw then right click

properties

local content

verify the integrity of the game

[Collingwoodgang]

Right on. Working well now. Thanks for all the help. You sir, are a saint!

[BasilIII]

Today my cat powered down the pc during Darthmod's ETW. From that point on, ETW and Darthmod wouldn't start. Deleted ETW and reinstalled, repatched.grr. Still didnt work. This thread saved me. Validating files, and script deletion = great tips. Then ETW worked, but darthmod didn't but i knew i was close. Reinstalled darthmod and i'm up and running. Thank you, Thread! PS btw, what is up with my return key not making paragraphs here? I'm never this sloppy in real life.