Sudden crash at loading screen before main menu

[Wolfrum]

SO I first posted this in a completely wrong part of the forum >.< so here's attempt #2

"Okay I am VERY, VERY mad at this whole ordeal. I've been going at it all night, uninstalling, installing, reinstalling, patching, searching, forums, installing, uninstalling etc etc you get the picture. Everytime I open it up, it gets to a loading screen before the main menu and just stops and crashes.

The thing is, before this, it did work, except when I went to play a third age campaign if would let me pick a faction and then it would revert to the campaign menu and would let me do anything but press back. That's when I start this whole thing, and now I did a completely clean install it crashes before the main menu.

I am playing with Win 8, I have already tried to turn UAC off and install it after I've done that and it still won't work. (In fact I have UAC off right now still) I have a CD retail version of the original game, Medieval II: Total War and Kingdoms and they are both all patched to 1.5, I've checked that numerous times. I am not using any submods at all, just TATW part 1 and 2 as well as patches 3.1 and 3.2 for it as well. Help .......... me, I want to play this mod so bad."

I tried running it in as admin but it says "windows cannot find kingdoms.exe, please make sure you typed the name correctly and try again" or something of that nature. Its installed correctly tho, in the main Medieval II directory, and I can see kingdoms.exe is exactly where it should be as well. Any ideas?

[ElvenKind]

The thing is, you have Third Age 3 related folder in Virtual store. As I saw in your other post, you disabled UAC after installing TATW for the first time, tha is why it doesn't work even after reinstalling. Check the virtual store and delete Third_Age_3 folder there.