Medieval 2 won't launch

[Anasterian]

Hello all,
I've been playing the Divide and Conquer submod for the Third Age mod. I hadn't installed anything or changed any settings, at least that I can remember, and now when I try to launch Med 2 from Steam, nothing happens. I tried uninstalling and reinstalling from the Steam interface and vanilla Med 2 won't launch. I click play Med 2 (from the selection of Kingdoms expansions), another small steam window opens up (so briefly I cannot see what is on it) and then nothing happens. When I open task manager it doesn't say that any Med 2 programs are running under programs or processes.

Thanks in advance for the help.
-Anasterian

[Gigantus]

Download and install my Bare Geomod modding set up (small download) and then start it with the desktop shortcut. If that doesn't work then you have a steam based problem.

Also go through this tutorial from step 3 onward and delete the medieval 2 total war directory in the virtual store if it is present.

[Anasterian]

Do I need to install both Kingdoms 2.4 and Med 1.11?

[Gigantus]

The 1.1 patch is the version Med2 comes with in earlier versions. Never heard of kingdoms 2.4 unless it's a modification.