Plz help me!

**18Cohort** · January 23, 2011, 03:08 AM

Plz help My Rome Total War Gold Edition wouldnt start so I deleted it barely because there were some problems with it,and when i tried to re-instal it a box comes up and says that "An earlier version of Rome Total War has been detected. Please uninstal it before instaling Rome Total War Gold Edition! What should I do , I've used searche on my pc to find Rome Total War but nothing!

**empr guy** · January 23, 2011, 12:20 PM

http://www.twcenter.net/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=76 thats the techniqual help forum for next time,

but anyways, if you deleted the desktop icon, then the game is still installed (because that was just a shortcut to the file, not the real file), you will need to click unistall on the launcher. If the launcher dosent even come up then its a bit beyond my skills to fix

**roam** · January 23, 2011, 01:50 PM

Originally Posted by empr guy

http://www.twcenter.net/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=76 thats the techniqual help forum for next time,

but anyways, if you deleted the desktop icon, then the game is still installed (because that was just a shortcut to the file, not the real file), you will need to click unistall on the launcher. If the launcher dosent even come up then its a bit beyond my skills to fix

Uninstall and reinstall under a different folder name(ie if this one was installed under The Creative Assembly, install it under a new folder called CA), as if you just reinstall it problems can occur.

Alternatively you can delete all the files, not just the icon(noob :p). Its useful to have a tool that can search out these files manually. However im not entirely sure just deleting all of the rtw

in the program files folder is sufficient.

You could try completely clearing your computer of everything :p

**_Suetonius_** · January 23, 2011, 02:55 PM

There is a function of hp( if you got that) that you can restore you're computer to an earlier point. I had the same problem as you do now so just fix your computer to a point before you deleted it.

**roam** · January 23, 2011, 03:35 PM

Originally Posted by _Suetonius_

There is a function of hp( if you got that) that you can restore you're computer to an earlier point. I had the same problem as you do now so just fix your computer to a point before you deleted it.

Yh you could use system restore :p

**Hader** · January 23, 2011, 07:22 PM

I will move this to the Tech Help forum.

Before you reinstall make sure to delete the entire RTW folder from your HDD. By default it should be in
C:\Program Files\Activision\Rome Total War . If you are running in steam it will be in C:\Program Files \Steam\steamapps\common