Cannot determine language

**Josh Knight** · June 17, 2010, 11:31 PM

I have heard this is a very common issue(thanks creative assembly, first i can't install your patches and now this) I have M2TW, and it is the original, unpatched version. This is because i could never manage to install any patches. I recently bought M2TW kingdoms, and when i try to install it, it says it can not determine the language for the game. Now im fairly sure they are both english

Can anyone help me?

**blekaut** · June 18, 2010, 08:04 AM

If I remember correctly when I had this problem i installed the patches for M2TW and then I could install Kingdoms.

Why, did you say, can't you update?

**irishron** · June 18, 2010, 08:15 AM

What language is Medieval2 and where did you get it?

**Josh Knight** · June 18, 2010, 11:39 AM

I got the original at target lol, and ordered kingdoms off e-bay. But im pretty sure its in english as well.

But in response to first reply, i could never figure out how to patch the game. So if thats it, ill need to find out what im doing wrong in that aspect.

**irishron** · June 18, 2010, 11:55 AM

IF Medieval2 is US, and the Kingdoms is US, for example, all you need to do is have a clean install of Medieval2 with no modding, and install Kingdoms. The Medieval2 patches are on the Kingdoms disc.

**Josh Knight** · June 18, 2010, 12:34 PM

I just installed the 1.02 and 1.03 patches from the medival 2 total war kingdoms files, so now original is patched up to 1.03.

But still the same error. And i don't think i have any mods whatsoever. How do you check what language the games are set on? Maybe the e-bay one is a different setting than the target one. Maybe the problem is that.

**irishron** · June 18, 2010, 01:03 PM

Search the Kingdoms disc for the Kingdoms campaigns and run the setup.exe in each.

**Josh Knight** · June 18, 2010, 01:37 PM

I tried that, and i get this error message:

String ID_Missing_Language was not found in string table.

**Josh Knight** · June 18, 2010, 01:41 PM

Alright guys, it is not a game problem, i think it is a Vista problem. After i get all these errors, when i run the setup and it fails, it gives me the option to reinstall using reccomended settings(even though i never installed it in the first place). I just did that, and it installed everything perfectly.

Thanks for the help!

**irishron** · June 18, 2010, 02:18 PM

Glad it all worked out.

**A Nerdy Mop** · December 15, 2012, 05:52 AM

Does anyone have any answers on how to solve this? I have the same problem. Both of my copies have the Union flag on the back of the case so I would assume they are both UK copies (not sure if that's relevant or not). My M2TW is not updated and it works fine but I can't install kingdoms.

**irishron** · December 15, 2012, 06:24 AM

Do a clean install of Medieval2 and it should workIF both are the same language.

If all files don't match exactly when it tries updating it will get anal.