Won't load

[GearsFreak86]

Today I decided to load MTW2 and Brittania expansion because i was bored with napoleon. MTW2 loads with no problem. I load up kingdoms, it patches and begins installing british isles campaign. Right off the back it says I don't have access to Kingdoms.exe and gives me a number or something in parentheses (sorry for the mispelling) and asked to either aborth, retry, or continue. I click continue and it finishes loading. Then I go to play Kingdoms. Then this popped up.

"Windows cannot access the specified device, path, or file. You may not have the appropriate permission to access this item."

Huh?

I'm the only user and therefore ADMINISTRATOR! Never had this problem before. Tried it again.

Blamo!Same message. I have no clue what the heck this is.

So if anyone has any idea what this is about or what is wrong would be great.

[irishron]

Install the Kingdoms campaigns then patch it or you will have this problem. The Kingdoms patch affects all four campaigns.

Try this and still ahve problems, let us know. good luck.

[GearsFreak86]

So load all four and they should work after patching or just one and patch that one to 1.5?

[GearsFreak86]

Okay, I re-installed Brittania, and in seconds I got the old message. Here it is.

File Error.
The following error occured on file C:\Program Files (x86)\Sega\Medieval 2 Total War\kingdoms.exe"

Access Denied.
(0x5).

So I continued and finished the install, patched to 1.5 and went to play. Here we go.

"An unhandled exception has occured in your application." - Here is what the details showed.

ee the end of this message for details on invoking
just-in-time (JIT) debugging instead of this dialog box.
************** Exception Text **************
System.ComponentModel.Win32Exception: The system cannot find the file specified
at System.Diagnostics.Process.StartWithShellExecuteEx(ProcessStartInfo startInfo)
at System.Diagnostics.Process.Start()
at CoreLib.Action_LaunchExecutable.Execute()
at CoreLib.ActionManager.Trigger(String name)
at Launcher.LauncherMainForm.ContextMenuTrigger(Object sender, EventArgs e)
at System.Windows.Forms.MenuItem.OnClick(EventArgs e)
at System.Windows.Forms.MenuItemData.Execute()
at System.Windows.Forms.Command.Invoke()
at System.Windows.Forms.Control.WmCommand(Message& m)
at System.Windows.Forms.Control.WndProc(Message& m)
at System.Windows.Forms.ButtonBase.WndProc(Message& m)
at System.Windows.Forms.Button.WndProc(Message& m)
at System.Windows.Forms.ControlNativeWindow.OnMessage(Message& m)
at System.Windows.Forms.ControlNativeWindow.WndProc(Message& m)
at System.Windows.Forms.NativeWindow.Callback(IntPtr hWnd, Int32 msg, IntPtr wparam, IntPtr lparam)

************** Loaded Assemblies **************
mscorlib
Assembly Version: 1.0.5000.0
Win32 Version: 1.1.4322.2443
CodeBase: file:///c:/windows/microsoft.net/fra...2/mscorlib.dll
----------------------------------------
Launcher
Assembly Version: 1.0.2669.20298
Win32 Version: 1.0.2669.20298
CodeBase: file:///C:/Program%20Files%20(x86)/S...r/Launcher.exe
----------------------------------------
System.Windows.Forms
Assembly Version: 1.0.5000.0
Win32 Version: 1.1.4322.2032
CodeBase: file:///c:/windows/assembly/gac/syst...dows.forms.dll
----------------------------------------
System
Assembly Version: 1.0.5000.0
Win32 Version: 1.1.4322.2443
CodeBase: file:///c:/windows/assembly/gac/syst...089/system.dll
----------------------------------------
CoreLib
Assembly Version: 1.0.2669.20298
Win32 Version: 1.0.2669.20298
CodeBase: file:///C:/Program%20Files%20(x86)/S...ar/CoreLib.DLL
----------------------------------------
System.Drawing
Assembly Version: 1.0.5000.0
Win32 Version: 1.1.4322.2032
CodeBase: file:///c:/windows/assembly/gac/syst...em.drawing.dll
----------------------------------------
SkinLib
Assembly Version: 1.0.2669.20298
Win32 Version: 1.0.2669.20298
CodeBase: file:///C:/Program%20Files%20(x86)/S...ar/SkinLib.DLL
----------------------------------------
AxInterop.SHDocVw
Assembly Version: 1.1.0.0
Win32 Version: 1.1.0.0
CodeBase: file:///C:/Program%20Files%20(x86)/S...op.SHDocVw.DLL
----------------------------------------
Interop.SHDocVw
Assembly Version: 1.1.0.0
Win32 Version: 1.1.0.0
CodeBase: file:///C:/Program%20Files%20(x86)/S...op.SHDocVw.DLL
----------------------------------------
Accessibility
Assembly Version: 1.0.5000.0
Win32 Version: 1.1.4322.573
CodeBase: file:///c:/windows/assembly/gac/acce...essibility.dll
----------------------------------------
UpdateLib
Assembly Version: 1.0.2669.20298
Win32 Version: 1.0.2669.20298
CodeBase: file:///C:/Program%20Files%20(x86)/S.../UpdateLib.DLL
----------------------------------------
System.Xml
Assembly Version: 1.0.5000.0
Win32 Version: 1.1.4322.2032
CodeBase: file:///c:/windows/assembly/gac/syst...system.xml.dll
----------------------------------------
Microsoft.DirectX.AudioVideoPlayback
Assembly Version: 1.0.2902.0
Win32 Version: 5.04.00.2904
CodeBase: file:///c:/windows/assembly/gac/micr...eoplayback.dll
----------------------------------------
Microsoft.DirectX
Assembly Version: 1.0.2902.0
Win32 Version: 5.04.00.2904
CodeBase: file:///c:/windows/assembly/gac/micr...ft.directx.dll
----------------------------------------
************** JIT Debugging **************
To enable just in time (JIT) debugging, the config file for this
application or machine (machine.config) must have the
jitDebugging value set in the system.windows.forms section.
The application must also be compiled with debugging
enabled.
For example:
<configuration>
<system.windows.forms jitDebugging="true" />
</configuration>
When JIT debugging is enabled, any unhandled exception
will be sent to the JIT debugger registered on the machine
rather than being handled by this dialog.

So....any ideas? I have no idea what is going on here.

[irishron]

Maybe this wil help. http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?t=397636

As old and finicky as this game is, a fresh install and patch are in oreder, also.

A good tip is don't use the launcher.