One possible solution for "no campaign option" on Steam

[kernelPanicked]

Hello fellow RS2 players...

Saw a few threads regarding problems even being able to select the campaign. I finally got it working tonight, and it was well worth the trouble. Here is the problem I had:

-- Despite what was set in the launcher, I could only access historical and custom battles --

I discovered the cause was a faulty "LaunchSteamBI.bat". If I understand it correctly, the launcher pretty much just writes a batch file and runs it for you; this is the cmd window you see when the mod starts. Smart way to work, Unix-like. It's cool, too, because you can shortcut right to this batch file to launch again same as last time and continue your campaign.

In any case, I noticed the following typo in the last line of the batch file:

RomeTW-BI.exe -mod:-mod:play_rome  -show_err -nm -movie_cam

Looks like a little string manipulation mixup from the launcher, which borked the mod setting. I modified it to:

RomeTW-BI.exe -mod:play_rome  -show_err -nm -movie_cam

And just like that, all was well. I hope this helps some of you out there trying this great mod. And to the mod developers...may this bug report be easily replicated and picked up for the next patch build.

Now I need to see why historical battles crash for me...Is PC gaming great or what???

[Paedric]

First, hello and welcome to the forum.

Indeed, that's the cause of the problem, which is fixed in a launcher hotfix posted in the common issue thread.
But nice catch.

PS : Nice name BTW.

[kernelPanicked]

Ah phooey. A rediscovered bug. I found its mention this time in the known issues thread, posted by you...somehow I had missed it the first time through.

Might I suggest then an amendment to the post by apple (http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?t=386559) in the Steam subsection of downloads? A link to that hotfix might have saved me some trouble. I don't know if 2.2 is due soon or not, though, may not be worth the bother.

Thanks for the compliment. It has a very narrow band of appreciators -- one must be both a *nix geek AND a bit of a military history/RTS fanatic to really get joke.

[Ybbon]

It is in this thread http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?t=386590 which is the known issues. Maybe it needs re-organising a bit so we don't have the same info in multiple places.

Now I got the kernel panic being a unix geek (great error, though it really should be user panic because that's what I did the first time I ever saw it!), but now I'm concerned I missed the extra part to being a military history bit. Sigh. Oh well.

[ilidiankid]

Apparently the fix in the Known Issue topic only works with BI. I can't for the life of me figure out how to get it running with the Alex .exe. Anyone willing to help?

P/S: figured out what was wrong...I dont know how there was a "play_bosphoran_kingdom" folder in my RTW, and I don't know how I was able to choose it in the Launcher before (it is not there now?!), but apparently that's not a "real" faction? I tried Parthan and I'm seeing the option to Campaign now, but I'd really like to know where I got the bosphoran kingdom?