Trouble installing RS 2.5 (steam)

[RZZZA]

man, I thought downloading RTW through steam would make things easier. Its just been a big headache

I pointed the RS 2.5.exe towards my RTW Gold folder in steam but I got 3 errors:

You don't have Roma Surrectum installed in the correct folder. C:\Program files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Rome Total War Gold

Engine: RomeTW-Alx.exe, faction campaign: -mod: play_greeks

in total: 'RomeTW-Alx.exe -mod: play_greeks -show_err'

What does all of this gobbledy gook mean and how do I fix it?

[Brusilov]

I don't think R:TW Gold includes the R:TX Alex exe - just the R:TW and R:TW BI ones....

[RZZZA]

Gonna delete everything and try everything again, just gonna install RTW:gold this time...

[Brusilov]

If you go through multiple steps in the install launch the game after each one to ensure that part of the install works.

For instance

1) Install R:TW Gold
2) Launch game to confirm that both RTW and R:TW BI can be used ot launch a campaign
3) Take a copy of the install so you can always copy it back
4) Install RSII
5) Launch game to confirm that both RTW and R:TW BI can be used ot launch a RSII campaign
6) Take a copy of the install so you can always copy it back