RTW won't start

**unKnownWarrior** · April 04, 2007, 07:46 PM

well after how many years i haven't played rtw i decided to install it and play it...unfortunately when i installed it and tried to start it , it didn't start...it just showed the rome total war logo and then disappeared...i tried clicking it again and yet it still didn't work...

after numerous uninstalls and installations it still doesn't work

...i really really want to play again so i can install RTW: BI as well which i haven't touched for a year...btw it worked before...

**unKnownWarrior** · April 06, 2007, 10:54 PM

bump

**Axe-Battler** · April 07, 2007, 12:49 AM

I think this is the wrong forum, but too bad for the moderator jajajaja...

Do you have the system requirements for rtw still? Directx 9 and everything that you used to to be able to use it like before?

Possible check the directory you are installing it into make sure it's a directory that makes sense.

That's all I can say unless you can give more description of what's happening.

**unKnownWarrior** · April 07, 2007, 02:53 AM

well yeah i didn't know exactly where to put my topic except this...i know i should be playing medieval total war but my comp sucks a**...and i just wanna get a feel again on rome...

well i believe i met all the requirements...also yeah i installed directx9 b then i updated it to directx9 c...i cannot upgrade my video card drivers because they discontinued it and its a "Jaton Geforce 5700le pci 128mb"...but no matter what driver i had it worked before...its just that now it stopped on me.. im not sure what exactly the problem is...

i installed it on the default folders like it should...oh yeah im not sure if it might be causing the problem but i installed the game first never bothered to check if it works then i went on installing the 1.3 and 1.5 patch...

after noticing it didn't work i uninstalled it and cleaned my registry and tried it again...and yet it still didn't work...i can't even open up the game...when i click the icon to play it shows that little box that says rome total war and the cd drive powers up...then dies off and it doesn't play at all...yet it still runs on task manager though...

hopefully you can help me out or anybody else because i really want to play...

**Axe-Battler** · April 07, 2007, 03:40 AM

MMMM... the cd is corrupted m8. I think.

Same thing happened to me with mtw1, I tried to play it and when I put in the cd, nothing, it took me 30 minutes to get to the installation process, then installation halted half way through, and the second cd was just unreadable...(corrupted).

Don't **** with it anymore, my pc ended up crashing for a while because I kept trying to get mtw1 to work, led me to do stupid things with it...you might be desperate enough to make a stupid mistake as well, just either buy a new cd or don't play it.

I've used rtw after playing mtw2 for so long, and I'll tell, I know exactly how you feel about getting "the rome feel" back, but I'll also tell you you're not missing anything good.

Honestly, once you load it up and start a campaign you'll just be like "eh..."

the feeling goes away instantly and you'll prolly just uninstall it right away, even if using a mod like EB...

I could always be wrong though but that's just me.

**unKnownWarrior** · April 07, 2007, 04:07 AM

^^ yeah i got bored of it for a while and left it to rot for some years now...and ever since i watched "300" it made me wanna play again haha...

anyways my disk 1 looks very scratched not sure if thats the problem...it installs all 3 cds jsut fine but just won't play...i can't wait to get a new comp so i can play MTW2

**Axe-Battler** · April 07, 2007, 04:10 AM

wait to get a new comp so i can play MTW2

OH! My mistake in that first post I thought you already could play mtw2.

Yeah I was actually in the mod forums for mtw2 and was reading "ortus romani" forum, it will be a mod set in the roman era, I got "feeling" back.. haha right after posting in here too about "ah don't play rome"