Invisible Units

[aussibroker]

Hey Guys,
I just started playing this amazing mod. Love it a lot. Thanks! But I have one mayor problem. Many of the Units are Invisible, usually only seeing their weapon + cloak, but no bodies or faces. I play a campaign as the Silvan Elves, and its true for all my troops I has the pleasure to play with so far. An exception are the Generals, they are always perfectly visible. Many of my enemies troops I encountered so far are invisible too, including many but not all rebel troops and many orc troops. Here is a screenshot.

In the original game there is no such problem. Any idea what it can be due to? I have no clue about modding but I checked in the mods >Third_Age_3>data>unit_models folder and there is the general and captains folder, which seems to be fine since the generals and captains are all shown. Then there is the _units folder. That folder seems a bit weird to me. Half the names in there don't make sense to me.
anglo-saxon
en_lmail_hmail
ES_Greek_Greek_Heavy
heroes
high_elves
my_units
rhun
rohan
slaves
wardogs

Some units do on the other-hand have faces.

Seeing that I have no idea about 3d models I have no clue how to fix this.
I would really really appreciate some help from the community.
thx a lot
aussi

[ElvenKind]

Hi there and welcome to TWC Forums! This is a bad installation, answer these few questions so we can help you:

1. What Windows do you have?

2. Is your M2 TW steam, or non steam version?

3. Have you installed all four TATW Installers?

4. Are you using any submod, or have you edited any files?

5. You have Kingdoms expansion installed ( just checking .. ) ?

[aussibroker]

Hi there thanks for the quick answer.

1. Windows Xp
2. Non Steam
3. Yes I installed up to the newest patch
4. No submods or own modifications
5. Yes

[ElvenKind]

Windows XP is not great operating system for M2TW, since it can use around 3.4 GB of RAM installed, that means, you can have even 16 GB of RAM, but only 3 and some usable..

Anyway, you can reinstall it by using start-control panel- uninstall programs.

After that, delete manually Third_Age_3 folder from your ..m2tw/ mods/ folder.

Install all four TATW Installers ( check the installation path carefully, it has to be the same for all four installers, and the ending of it must be .../Medieval II Total War !!! ). And, google for instructions on how to run program as an Administrator in Windows XP.. I think it is by pressing Shift + Right mouse click on the TATW Shortcut. Then you get command : Run As.. and click on that, and if there is an option to run it as an Administrator, try it.