Question about installing a few mods.

**Vegas_Bear** · August 01, 2011, 01:22 PM

As the title says, I am having difficulty installing a few mods. The two in question are Rule Britannia and Battle Axe. Whenever I try to install these two mods I get an error saying that M2TW:K isn't installed. I have M2TW and all four Kingdom Campaigns installed, from a legal release of the DVDs. See below pictures for the error and proof of install. I also tried to do a fresh install of the British Isles before trying again to install Rule Britannia.

The only changes that I made to the Kingdoms expansions was add --io.file_first in the target line of each campaign. So I could add in some minor mods, like better water and better AI.
Example- "C:\Program Files\SEGA\Medieval II Total War\kingdoms.exe" --io.file_first --features.mod=mods/americas

If anyone has any ideas, I'd be grateful.

Vegas_Bear

**irishron** · August 01, 2011, 04:30 PM

I know some mods require the game be unpacked, including whichever Kingdoms campaign it is based on. AJStoner has a post about Rule Brittania being this way.

**AJStoner** · August 01, 2011, 04:43 PM

To Vegas_Bear:

IVIarkI2I came up with a hotfix for Rule Britannia that seems to get around this issue. You can get it here.

**Vegas_Bear** · August 02, 2011, 03:54 PM

After putting the patch in the mods folder, I'm still getting the same error about not finding a valid installation of M2TW K. Any ideas?

Would it matter that none of the Kingdoms expansions are unpacked, giving the error that it can't find a valid installation?

Vegas_Bear

**AJStoner** · August 02, 2011, 04:24 PM

Originally Posted by Vegas_Bear

After putting the patch in the mods folder, I'm still getting the same error about not finding a valid installation of M2TW K. Any ideas?

Would it matter that none of the Kingdoms expansions are unpacked, giving the error that it can't find a valid installation?

Vegas_Bear

That's the best guess I can make right now...

**Squid** · August 02, 2011, 08:35 PM

Are you running a 64-bit version of vista or win7? Have you run the game, without a mod, since the last time you installed?

**Vegas_Bear** · August 02, 2011, 11:23 PM

Using WindowsXP SP3 and I rarely play one of the expansion campaigns. I have not played the original M2TW in years.

**Gigantus** · August 03, 2011, 01:12 AM

Looks like the installer is looking for the registry entry of the game (mine do) and can't find it. Corrupted registry?

**Vegas_Bear** · August 03, 2011, 01:20 AM

Might be, how can I repair or replace it? Complete reinstall of M2TW I suppose?

**Gigantus** · August 03, 2011, 04:10 AM

That's the safest way - messing manually with the registry is a sure fire way to disaster if you don't know 100% what you are doing. Uninstall all via control panel - starting with the campaigns. Check for 'left-overs' and remove them manually. Once done restart the computer to unload the registry from memory (?) and then re-install.

Have a look into this thread as well to avoid pitfalls from the start: How To Fix UAC and VirtualStore Problems