Cannot open EB!

[ardorious]

Hi everyone!
I've downloaded EB to my new Windows 7.0 on Vanilla RTW 1.5 gold edition. My problem is: I've installed EB in c: Program files/The Creative Assembly/Rome - Total War. as always i do.
but every time i click on EB, RTW starts!
previously i had same problem but when i re-install the game the problem resolves. but this time it is different. I need professional and permenant solution...

[Arthur, king of the Britons]

Copy your RTW folder to anywhere outside program files, and try installing EB to that folder instead. I think that's what I did, and it worked for me.

Hopefully this link will provide further help:

https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showthread.php?80270-A-guide-to-install-EB-screenshots-provided

Best of luck to you.

[Ludens]

Moving to the EB tech help forum.

[bobbin]

Hi everyone!
I've downloaded EB to my new Windows 7.0 on Vanilla RTW 1.5 gold edition. My problem is: I've installed EB in c: Program files/The Creative Assembly/Rome - Total War. as always i do.
but every time i click on EB, RTW starts!
previously i had same problem but when i re-install the game the problem resolves. but this time it is different. I need professional and permenant solution...

What it the target in your EB shortcut?

[moriluk]

My last pc finally bit the dust and I got a new one..of course it has windows7.

I am having the exact same problem, but I installed everything outside of program files. I did it the exact same way I did on Vista.

I tried windowed mode. All that did was make rtw smaller (unlike on Vista where it allowed me to alt/tab eb to quickly minimize and have less ctd overall).

I tried some of the solutions here:
https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showthread.php?123030-Windows-7
but with no luck.

I know the team does not support windows 7, but...some people have had no issues at all. Wish I was one.

It is worth noting that I did not download the trivial script as I found myself never using it in the past. Will this make a difference?

[XSamatan]

Create a new shortcut to Rome-TW.exe and edit the target line by adding: -mod:eb -show_err -ne -nm

The thing with the windowed mode: The game now uses the resolution set in \EB\preferences\preferences.txt; thus if this is smaller than your desktop one the window itself will be smaller than your desktop.

XSamatan

[moriluk]

I got everything to work.

Perhaps the trivial script helped?

Before, the menu options were "play" and "run (troubleshoot)". Now I have "Play single player" and "Play multiplayer".

IF it matters I am using RTW/BI Gold Edition. And now I have the BI installer which creates it's own shortcut which allowed windowed mode works like it used to.

Also, I did NOT run anything as window xp compatible and I am not running anything as an admin, though I did run the 1.1 file as an admin when installing.

Not sure if any of this makes a difference, i just know it did not work 4 times and the 5th time it did work with doing very little different.

[XSamatan]

You installed Trivial Script (which gives you the "Play single player" and "Play multiplayer" shortcuts) the last time, this is the difference to your previous installations.

Have fun with EB!