I just installed a clean copy of Rome Total War off my 3 CD set.

I followed all the instructions off of the Rome Total Realism.org site.

THen I installed Barbarian Invasion off my CD and the 1.6 Barbarian update.

Next I downloaded and installed Rome Total Realism 1.9 Platinum,

I click the Realism TW Icon on desktop and the videos start, I see everything, it says version 1.5, I read all the credits, I choose my campaign or historic battle, then I click start game and it goes straight to desktop, I have reinstalled 3 times.

I have an Nvidia 8400Gs vid card and just updated the drivers, I updated Win media runtime and direct x.

It's a clean install of Rome Total war off my Cds, all original.

But after choosing what to play it stops and goes straight back to desktop.

I have Windows Xp, on a Dual core 6600 processor.

Thanks, I would appreciate any help, I am now going to do a complete uninstall and start over and try each version as it installs to see what happens, just going to try the original first.