Greetings everyone, I am in need of assistance.

[Halcyon]

Hello everyone,

I purchased STW:WE earlier today and am having significant problems running it. I can install the game with no problems but when I try to run it, the CD rom spins the disc and the game tries to run but after a second the Total War splash screen goes away and nothing happens. I thought maybe it was a video problem but it isn't even running in the task manager. I also tried a usb CD-Rom drive I have thinking maybe my drive was acting up for some reason to no avail. The demo for Shogun runs fine on this same system so I can't seem to figure out why the full version wouldn't.

I am running XP Home on a gaming laptop with a 3.2 P4, Ati 9600m video (Dx 9.0b), 1gig RAM, onboard sound. Any help is appreciated. Thanks.

[KukriKhan]

Hi Halcyon, and welcome to the .Org.

You've certainly got the hardware to run Warlord Edition, so I have to suspect software. You do have Windows Media Player installed, right? If so, then the usual culprit is video drivers.

Note: I'm not a tech expert, but we have several members and staff here who are - they'll be along to help as well. Meanwhile, check out the topics in the forum labelled Apothecary.

[Jason the Absentminded]

Welcome, Halcyon

I had the same problem upon installing my copy. I ran a disk cleanup, followed by a disk defragmentation. Upon restarting my computer it ran fine, with no more problems to date.

[LestaT]

I'm also using XP. Never had problem with running the games (STW & MTW) but the problem is when I quit the game. It will just hang there. So usually I'll ctrl+alt+del to come back to desktop. Any suggestions why it happened ? http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/gc-furious3.gif

[ah_dut]

welcome, do you want me to post this in the apothecary, you'll get a better response there, but however the problem may well be drivers.

[Halcyon]

Thank you a ah_dut. I would appreciate it if you could move this there.

Thank you for the help so far. I tried running disk cleanup and defragmenting but it didn't work. Also, now whenever I try to install the game I get a message saying that there is an invalid CDcode on the CD-ROM and I need to fill out some form in order to obtain a valid CDcode. I have no clue what that means. http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/confused.gif On a positive note I was able to get the game running on my old PC running WIN 98 but even that systems CD-ROM had difficulty reading the disc initially. I really would like to get it runing on my good system though so I can run it all out.

[KukriKhan]

moved to Apothecary.