Medieval II:Total War Kingdoms Installer problems

[Fanrabbit]

Ok so i have tried to install Med Kingdoms and i did install all of them exept crusades and after usesless attempts the installer just starts up then gets to like a data folder and freezes. I uninstaller med 2 and uninstalled kingdoms and reinstalled med 2 and kingdoms but now i can only install americas, the rest are just freezing and its really stressful, please hurry on reply thanks

[irishron]

Assuming Vista or win 7,

Uninstall the game starting with the Kingdoms campaigns in Control Panel > Add/Remove Programs.
Delete BOTH Medieval II Total War folders.
Run a good free registry cleaner to clean up what CA's uninstaller does not.
Reboot.
disable the UAC.
Install all in C:\Games.

[Fanrabbit]

whats UAC and are you sure this will work? ye im using win 7 but whats Run a good free registry cleaner to clean up what CA's uninstaller does not?? Sorry im not very techy

[irishron]

http://www.mydigitallife.info/how-to...-in-windows-7/ Just follow the instructions.
http://www.eusing.com/free_registry_...updatev281.htm is what I have used for years.

You will need to be logged in as Administrator to do all this.

[Fanrabbit]

I have done it all and installed med 2 but now the kingdoms installer wont even open. In other word i put disc in and it wont even start up ;(

[irishron]

Can you read the disc in Computer?
Can you run the setup.exe in each starting with the Update2 folder?

[Fanrabbit]

I go on computer and it says kingdoms and then i try to get into disc folder and it just wont open it

[irishron]

Possibly a new disc is in order.
Do you have another computer you could try to open it on?

[Fanrabbit]

Not really, Can i use like my med 2 cd key to get another copy without paying?

[Fanrabbit]

Will i need to put my UAC back to how it was?

[irishron]

Not really, Can i use like my med 2 cd key to get another copy without paying?

No.

Will i need to put my UAC back to how it was?

It won't make any difference either way.
The reason for trying it on another computer is the differences between dvd readers. Maybe theirs and not yours.

[Fanrabbit]

thats a poop ;(

[irishron]

I don't make the rules.

[Fanrabbit]

Good news, i got the cd working but instead of installing it i thought i would just play it on disc in folder but comes up with his error message "The procedure entry point _AIL_set_3D_orientation@28 could not be located in the dynamic link libary mss32.dll." I think thats our problem, now we just need to fix it

[PoleCat]

A missing [mss32.dll] file seems to be pretty common these days. It should have automatically installed when you installed Kingdoms. A re-install should fix the problem.

If this solution hasn't worked do an Advanced Search on your OS drive (or your drive where you store most of your games), find a copy from any other location and then copy-and-paste it into your M2 folder and Kingdoms folder for good measure. Be sure you don't delete the original from whatever location you found it in. Good luck!

[irishron]

mss32.dll is part Miles Sound System CA loves using and if the game it is not installed correctly with this where the gam knos where to find it, 90% of the time you're reinstalling. 10 yar old technology with RTW and carried over to Medieval2.

[Fanrabbit]

So what are you saying re install kingdoms or med2 ?

[Fanrabbit]

By the way Pole Whres my kingdoms folder? i don thave one

[irishron]

Reinstall both. There is no Kingdoms folder unless you do it yourself.

[Fanrabbit]

What if it still dont work?