Gerhard
12-08-2007, 13:15
The topic of this post is not how to make EB work with ALEX. For information about that please go to
https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showthread.php?t=94861
and
https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showthread.php?t=96135
This is about a bug of the alex installer.
The installer always checks drive C for diskspace regardless of installationdrive.
If you try to install ALEX and the installer quits with "error -1" (or something like that) you are propably a victim of this bug.
To play EB with ALEX anyway you have to copy 2 files from the ALEX-CD to your harddrive.
The easy one first. RomeTW-ALX.exe can be found on the CD. Just copy this file to your RTW installation, into the same directory as RomeTW.exe
The second file is chat_filter.san.
This one is, of course, also on the CD, but it is packed in CAB files.
I will describe how to use i6comp to extract the CAB files, other tools can be found on the net.
To get i6comp go to.
http://programmerstools.org/node/123
or google for it.
Unzip the download in some directory, say D:\extract. This should give you, among others, the file i6comp.exe.
From the ALEX CD copy the files data1.cab, data1.hdr and data2.cab into the same directory.
Open a Texteditor and create a file i6comp.bat with the following line:
i6comp e -r data1.cab
Save the file in D:\extract.
Doubleclick i6comp.bat.
This will extract A LOT of files and may take some time to complete.
When its done you should find chat_filter.san in D:\extract.
Copy chat_filter.san to <your RomeEB directory>\EB\data.
Thats it.
For information on how to set up EB to be compatible with ALEX visit the links above.
And finally:
A big thank you to the EB team or making this fantastic mod.
Also to Maksimus and everybody involved in making it work with ALEX.
cheers
Gerhard
https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showthread.php?t=94861
and
https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showthread.php?t=96135
This is about a bug of the alex installer.
The installer always checks drive C for diskspace regardless of installationdrive.
If you try to install ALEX and the installer quits with "error -1" (or something like that) you are propably a victim of this bug.
To play EB with ALEX anyway you have to copy 2 files from the ALEX-CD to your harddrive.
The easy one first. RomeTW-ALX.exe can be found on the CD. Just copy this file to your RTW installation, into the same directory as RomeTW.exe
The second file is chat_filter.san.
This one is, of course, also on the CD, but it is packed in CAB files.
I will describe how to use i6comp to extract the CAB files, other tools can be found on the net.
To get i6comp go to.
http://programmerstools.org/node/123
or google for it.
Unzip the download in some directory, say D:\extract. This should give you, among others, the file i6comp.exe.
From the ALEX CD copy the files data1.cab, data1.hdr and data2.cab into the same directory.
Open a Texteditor and create a file i6comp.bat with the following line:
i6comp e -r data1.cab
Save the file in D:\extract.
Doubleclick i6comp.bat.
This will extract A LOT of files and may take some time to complete.
When its done you should find chat_filter.san in D:\extract.
Copy chat_filter.san to <your RomeEB directory>\EB\data.
Thats it.
For information on how to set up EB to be compatible with ALEX visit the links above.
And finally:
A big thank you to the EB team or making this fantastic mod.
Also to Maksimus and everybody involved in making it work with ALEX.
cheers
Gerhard