CTD at startup (think I am missing 2 directories)

UAC is and has been disabled, and I didn't use Steam or any other program to install
Using 64-bit Vista, and have gotten the Stainless Steel and Third Age mods to work
I think I am missing two directories, not sure why. Second Theory is a messed up Sprite.bat, but that is just because that file blows up when it triggers.

I got a download that was ready to play (from RedDwarf) and I did an install from scratch. Both times I got the same error. It would reach the loading screen, stay there for a bit, then CTD, leaving a command prompt with the following log


cd ..\..
kingdoms.exe @mods\Call_of_Warhammer\sprite_vkl.cfg
cd export
The system cannot find the patch specified
cd unit_sprites
The system cannot find the patch specified
texture_converter.py -d -all -sub
'texture_converter.py' is not recognized as an internal or external command. operable program or batch file.
The system cannot find the path specified.
The system cannot find the path specified
Finish
Press any key to continue


The log ignored the line
"@for %%f in (*.tga) do nvcompress -nomips -bc3 %%f"
in the batch file, and I believe the last 2 cannot find paths are these two lines

@del /q "C:\Program Files\Medieval II Total War - Kingdoms\export\unit_sprites\*.tga"
@del /q "C:\Program Files\Medieval II Total War - Kingdoms\export\unit_sprites\*.dds"

The only thing I can think of is I am missing the directory export and unit_sprites. I don't have them, but I have no idea why I would be missing folders.

the issue with the .py is odd because I have .py programs on my computer and they work fine.
I also learned deleting the " -d -all -sub" will cause the log to not form/remain, but won't fix the problem

lastly, those last two lines point to the wrong directory, but I cannot redirect them until I solve this ghost directory problem, and that is a simple fix.

Python scripts used with mods\tools here in TWCenter only work up to version 2.7 - this version here works just as dandy: Python 2.6

But it escapes reason why every start of the mod this texture converter would run. And then the deletion of the files in the vanilla game's unit_sprite directory is even weirder. My take: the modders were generating sprite files and then converting them and deleting the originals - and then forgot about the batch file.

I am attaching the BAT and CFG file from my CoW 1.4.4 - Easy and painfree Installation all you need to do is check that the path to CoW is correct in both as I have used a different folder name.

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