The Third Age Crashes to Desktop. Help!

[J_Tupp]

I installed the third age from the moddb site. I downloaded the parts 1 and 2 as well as the patches 3.1 and 3.2. When I click on the icon, it opens for a second to the third age intro loading screen. I can see the 3.2 at the bottom right corner. Then the program ends back to the desktop. I've uninstalled mtw 2 as well as kingoms multiple times. I have downloaded the 1.5 patch for kingdoms. I have uninstalled the third age and all the patches and reinstalled multiple times. I have disabled daylight savings mode. I'm lost. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

I am running Windows 8.

I have a radeon 7950 3GB video card

I have an intel core duo processor.

I have like 8 or 10 GB of ram.

[lolIsuck]

Are you running M2TW on Steam?

I've asked this thread to be moved to the TATW forum btw, as that's where it belongs.

[Martyn12]

I have the same problem and I am usng Steam.

I am running Windows 7.
I have a lot of space like 40 GB

[StealthFox]

I installed the third age from the moddb site. I downloaded the parts 1 and 2 as well as the patches 3.1 and 3.2. When I click on the icon, it opens for a second to the third age intro loading screen. I can see the 3.2 at the bottom right corner. Then the program ends back to the desktop. I've uninstalled mtw 2 as well as kingoms multiple times. I have downloaded the 1.5 patch for kingdoms. I have uninstalled the third age and all the patches and reinstalled multiple times. I have disabled daylight savings mode. I'm lost. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

As lolIsuck said, can you confirm if you are using Steam or not? Also have you disabled UAC?

See this thread for help on installation and on UAC:

http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showt...Before-Posting!)

[J_Tupp]

I am not running steam. I have a steam account but the version of M2TW and Kingdoms are both disc. I will look into the UAC stuff. I was not familiar with that. Thank you for taking time to answer my question!

[J_Tupp]

I dsabled uac and reinstalled. It now says cannot find kingdoms exe. I renamed teutonic folder teutonic.2 and the third age teutonic. I clicked on the teutonic icon and it brought up the third age loading screen then crashed to desktop. Please help. This is driving me mad

[StealthFox]

If you are not running Steam you do not need to rename anything. Simply run the installers, and then click on the icon that should appear on your desktop. It should then work without any problem.

[ElvenKind]

I dsabled uac and reinstalled. It now says cannot find kingdoms exe. I renamed teutonic folder teutonic.2 and the third age teutonic. I clicked on the teutonic icon and it brought up the third age loading screen then crashed to desktop. Please help. This is driving me mad

As StealthFox said, you used the wrong installation steps.. In my signature bellow, click on EK's Install Thread, and apply these steps explained there:

1. Edit security, unhide hidden folders, check the VirtualStore!

2. Uninstall TATW by using Start- Control Panel- Uninstall programs ( Do Windows 8 have Control Panel? ) and, manually delete TATW folder from your ../ M2TW/ mods folder.


3. Follow the installation instructions for NON STEAM installation of TATW.

4. For battle crashes, delete two descr_geography_new files ( .db and. txt) located in ../ M2TW/ mods/ Third_Age_3/ data folder.

Good luck!

[ElvenKind]

I have the same problem and I am usng Steam.

I am running Windows 7.
I have a lot of space like 40 GB

Hi there and welcome to TWC Forums!

In my signature bellow, click on EK's Install Thread, and apply these steps explained there:

1. edit the security for your main
M2TW folder as described there
BEFORE installing TATW.

2. Verifiy game cache as described
there BEFORE installing TATW.

3. Use one of the methods
mentioned there for steam
installation, or, follow the one
shown in the pictures.

Good luck!