unpacker.exe win32 error

[choos]

greetings all,

i have the gold edition of m2tw fyi and so ive run the unpack_all and unpack_americas a few days ago and all was dandy working fine.

however ive tried to make the unpack_british_isles unpack thingy, failed, so deleted and found somewhere that had all four and just used them instead.

the problem now is that when i double click on the unpack_britannia.bat i get an error saying:
d:\Medieval2\tools\unpacker\unpacker.exe is not a valid Win32 application

this now happens to all my unpack files.. but as far as i know the games still work.

any help will be appreciated.

[irishron]

Disable the UAC.

[choos]

thanks for the quick reply.

but sorry no luck same msg, turned UAC off.

questions, how big is the unpacker.exe meant to be? is it possible that ive done something to it unknowingly? because currently it is saying it is 0 KB when i check the properties it says its 0 bytes? is it really so small or did i done a boo boo?

[irishron]

unpacker.exe is 344kb. I just checked.

If you have the disc version of Gold Edition, try installing it in C:\Games with the UAC disabled.

http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?t=355307 could also be relevant.

[choos]

yea i found those files after i failed to make the unpack files myself. thanks though.

unfortunately i dont have the disk, only have a steam version.. is there anyplace that has the unpacker.exe file that i could download from?

[irishron]

Verify the game cache. It should be there.

[choos]

not sure what that means, but its not really a steam thingy, i bought and downloaded it from a gamestop app not sure you know what that is or how it works, but im assuming something similar to steam (not sure what that is neither just assuming its for digitally transfered games ) yea i know nothing of computers.

[irishron]

I was assuming it's Steam copy. The trouble is you got unpack_all.bat and upcak_americas.bat to work, right? Then, it should work for brittania unless its .bat is bad.
Tried running it as Administrator?

[choos]

yea i got them to run at first, but ever since my problem none of the unpacks works, i even tried running the unpack_all again and get the error, so im thinking maybe its the unpack.exe thingy just need to find where it is.

[irishron]

Post a pic of the unpacker folder.
See if there is an unpacker folder hiding in users\username\appdata\roaming\the creative assembly\you finish the rest.

[choos]

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i checked for the users\username\appdata\roaming\the creative assembly\........

but its a deadend after appdata i dont seem to have a roaming folder, tried to see if its invisible but still not there.

thanks for your patience and help so far though.

[irishron]

Bad install. Tell Gamestop you need a new download.
After you do reinstall and confirm the file size is right, backup the whole Medieval2 folder someplace safe.

For seeing the rest of the way down, check Unhide all files and folders in Folder Options like mine is in the pic.

[choos]

really? i got to download 12gb again? crap.. do you know any place that has just the unpacker.exe file? i want to try that first.

but if that doesnt work than im not going to bother downloading 12gb again

yea i done that show folders thing

[irishron]

Post your dxdiag.

[choos]

will it help?

[irishron]

Where did you get Windows?

[choos]

no idea came with the laptop

[choos]

oh but if you are asking country specific, than i bought it in hong kong.

[irishron]

Did it come with a setup/install disc(s)?

[choos]

not that i remember, if it did, i dont think i have it anymore.