General install info RTW 1.5 and BI 1.6 (and mod folder)

[DaVinci]

I made this thread-content in our Chiv-subforum for anybody who is not informed enough, how to install the patches RTW 1.5 or BI 1.6. Hope it can be a help for some people, also to install mods, especially the ones with mod folders.

The base is if somebody has installed the original CD versions of RTW (or BI), but look through, below also hints, regarding the Gold or Era's Pack.


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- You can patch RTW max. to version 1.5.
- You can patch RTW-BI max. to version 1.6.
- BI is the expansion for RTW, that means, naturally you have to install RTW and then BI.
- Speaking of the original RTW and BI CD-versions (not the Gold or Era's pack*), RTW is then version 1.0, and BI installs itself as BI 1.4, and RTW is patched then to 1.3.
- If you have RTW 1.0 (original CD version) installed plus the expansion BI (original CD version), then you only need to install the patch "BI 1.6".
- If BI 1.6 patch is installed, then your RTW is automatically patched to 1.5.

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So the install-way as summery: (if we speak about the original CD versions)

1. Install RTW CD, that is then version 1.0.
2. Install BI CD, what is then RTW 1.3 and BI 1.4.
3. Install the patch 1.6 (from TW.com or whatever source). What is then RTW 1.5 and BI 1.6.

-> Upgrade is done for both: RTW 1.5 and BI 1.6! Check it out in Options menu. Though the right CD must be inserted to check the version entries 1.5 (RTW CD) or 1.6 (BI CD).

-> Next, decide with which exe you wanna play Chiv: RTW (1.5) or BI (1.6). ---> See the Chiv readme's concerning the little start-shortcut path-change for playing with BI exe.
-> Then, for playing with RTW exe, just insert RTW CD 1, or for playing with BI exe, just insert the BI CD. That's all, and must work this way. There is no other way possible! A RTW 1.6 or BI 1.5 isn't possible

**(I have no clue about the relations with the Gold or Era's pack versions, but it should be the same, although they changed the default install directory).

In case, somebody has installed RTW, and patched it to version 1.5 via the separate patches 1.3 and 1.5, then you should be able to install BI with the BI CD. And then after this, just the patch 1.6, and you have just BI 1.6 as result, if the BI CD is inserted, or with the RTW CD inserted, it is just RTW 1.5.

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EDIT:

*Gold or Era's Pack is already patched to the maximum, as far as i know.
**The directory path for the Gold or Era's Pack is the the same as the original, except the part Activision is there The Creative Assembly.

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In regard to installing mods with the "my mod"-folder function (other call it mod-switch):

It is in general easy, if you have a proper working RTW 1.5 or BI 1.6, then mainly the target folder structure for mod folder installations is:

For RTW mods:
RTW directory and there contained must be the mod folder.

For BI mod:
Analog ... RTW/BI directory and there contained must be the mod folder.

Then the proper path of the start-shortcut is the most important thing:
They have the same path as the vanilla shortcut, plus this:
"vanilla path" -mod:modfoldername
(Just open the shortcut with right-click, and you'll see; "vanilla" means: unmodified/original game version)

Note: Some kind of mod folder installs have a quite other structure, depends on the mod project, and how they have achieved the way of the exe-installer.

Important: Any mod folder installations, that don't change the vanilla data (original RTW or BI data files), can work parallel all in one RTW directory, and you can just play further the original games on the usual way.

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Playing a mod without ever played RTW or BI vanilla versions:

It is possible. The most mods have their own preferences file on board, that means the line of preferences.txt where it is stated First Time Play:True is already changed to First Time Play:False. Otherwise, open your RTW directory, and then for mods, the mod folder, and find the preferences, and change it according to that.

[cristinaqwe]

thanks ,that helps me a lot !