RTW crash need help

**bossrobert** · October 31, 2011, 11:40 AM

Hello. Recently I have downlaoded rome total war gold edition using steam. However, I am unable to play it. I start the game by clicking play and it goes to load up but instantly it quits with a windows error message saying, "Rome Total war has stopped working" Then another one following it saying "a problem has caused the program to stop working"

And thats all it says while I know nothing of what is going on....

Can someone help me? I have uninstalled and reinstalled the game multiple times. I have deleated the files from my pc then reinstalled them multiple times. I dont know what to do...

**irishron** · October 31, 2011, 11:43 AM

What version of Windows?

**bossrobert** · October 31, 2011, 11:45 AM

I use Windows vista

**irishron** · October 31, 2011, 12:41 PM

Right-click the Rome Total War icon and set it "Run as Administrator" and "XP Compatible" and see if this helps.

**bossrobert** · October 31, 2011, 01:09 PM

The icon where exactly? I click it on my desktop but it was through steam so there is no option to run it as administrator. Also where do I find "XP Compatible"

**irishron** · October 31, 2011, 01:38 PM

Rifht-click the RTW icon, click preferences, click the Compatibility tab.

**bossrobert** · October 31, 2011, 01:44 PM

Im sorry maybe I am missing something... Where exactly do I find this icon? On my desktop? You mean the shortcut? I right click it and I only see properties no prefrences... Sorry if I am dumb or something.. Do I find the icon in steam, in my folders and files? Where?

**irishron** · October 31, 2011, 02:28 PM

Ye, the icon on the desktop. If you don't have an RTW icon on your desktop, it's not hard to put one there.

Yes, properties.

For an RTW ico, right-click the desktop, click New, click shortcut, and follow the Wizard. Find rome.exe in the steam\steam\steamapps\rome total war folder or close enough you can find it.

**MortenJessen** · October 31, 2011, 05:15 PM

Hi there.
When you have set RTW to run in XP compabilaty as admin, do this: (#3 )
1) Control panel --> System --> Advanced System Settings --> Advanced --> Performance--> Settings --> Data Execution Prevention.
2) Click the Data Execution Prevention tab, and then click Turn on DEP for all programs and services except those I select.
3) Select the check box next to the program.exe that you want to turn off DEP for, and then click OK.
If the program is not in the list, click Add. Browse your computer, find the exe file for ETW, and then click Open. Select the check box next to the program that you want to turn off DEP for, and then click OK.
That takes care of one of the most frequent reasons for crashes in battles.

**That one Irish guy.** · July 05, 2013, 11:21 AM

All these methods are complicated, all I did lad is go to my Steam/SteamApps (etc) and went to the RTW Directory, now, make a new folder (Doesn't matter what you name it) Drag all of the folders in your RTW directory into the new folder, re-install it. For some reason steam likes to just re-download the **** you had recently, but with the new folder it wont. Steam won't look inside the folder, even if you don't have it for steam i still recommend this, i think my method is the fastest. This **** has to be copyright because I'm the only one on every thread I've ever seen that knows this method.