Corrupted folder- can't uninstall or anything.

Hi first post here. Apparently I have to post this in here to have it moved acccording to the rules in the Apothecary forum.

I encountered a problem earlier today when I somehow did something wrong with renaming one file and deleting another to enable a feature on The Fourth Age Total War.

Problems started coming in game, during the load time for a battle I was given an error saying something about barbarian buildings could not be found, I OKed and it didn't crash or anything so I kept playing. A few turns later during another load screen another error came up saying something about big flags couldn't be found. I OKed that and then a second errro came up about small flags, the game then crashed to the desktop.

Later I tried playing again and was greeted by this error.

Error: filename doesn't exist: data/models_building/spot_fx/roman_city_gateway_spot_fx.CAS

After OKing that, I received this error

Script Error in data/descr_building_battle/dbb_walls_roman.txt, at line 699, column 28.
Unable to open spot fx file models_building/spot_fx/roman_city_gateway_spot_fx.CAS

I tried opening up vanilla RTW and RTW-BI and was given the first error about Roman gates, making them both crash back to the desktop.

I tried going into the Rome Total War\data\models_building folder to see waht all the fuss was about, but I had no luck as it said it was "unreadable or corrupted"

I decided it might be time to uninstall but again had no luck. When it got to a certain % and had to remove those files it gave me this error.

Internal Error 2330. 1932, D:\Program Files\Activision\Rome - Total War\Data\models_building\models_spot

What can I do to be able to play again?

Thanks.

Well, oddly and embarassingly enough, a simple restart of my computer seems to have fixed the problem. for now? Upon restart windows was doing all kinds of disk checks and deleting a bunch of files and other stuff, I didn't catch it all.

I'm still going to do a clean install though, I don't have full faith in it and I wouldn't doubt if I continued playing I'd end up getting errors down the road.


I guess this thread can be closed now. Sorry for wasting anyone's time who actually read this.:oops: :wall:

Welcome to the Org Fierro! Sorry to hear about the troubles. And I agree, errors that magically disappear usually do magically reappear at very irritating times.

Since it's a mod issue, you may have better support from the Fourth Age general forums. I wish I could help, but sadly I'm clueless. Hopefully someone there or here has seen this issue and can help out.

Good luck!

Go to run and type in regedit. It brings up the registry editor enabling you to delete files. Find the folder/s with the corrupted game data in and delete the files then reinstall the game/s. Try the modding again and get it right.

Hope this helps.

Thanks for the replies guys.

After restarting my computer which made the error go away, I was able to uninstall RTW, BI and the mod with no troubles.

I reinstalled everything and it works just fine now.

I think I know what I did wrong the first time. I had to rename a file and delete another but out of instinct I immediately opened up the mod when it was installed. So I started playing a bit then remembered I had do to that and did it once I already had a campaign going.

If I had done those steps immediately after installing instead of after starting a game I should have had no problems. I did that this time and so far no problems.:sweatdrop:

Is there no way to edit your own post?

I meant to say that after installing the mod I started playing right away instead of doing the little fix right away. I don't think it came out clear in the post.

Welcome to the Org, Fierro! Glad you were able to get your issues sorted out. ~:cheers:

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Originally Posted by Fierro

Is there no way to edit your own post?

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You'll be able to edit your posts once you're a full member (which usually takes a couple weeks or so).

Glad it works now Fierro.