Cannot Install, Freezes, Crashes, Other Weirdness

Hello.

Well, I'm a huge, longtime EB fan, and I'm afraid that I now can't get EB to install. I had a very similar problem on two different computers, both of which are Vista. On the old computer, I downloaded EB but the install didn't work; it froze the computer more or less, with a circle running around showing that it was loading for....hours. I was only able to get it working by transferring my EB file from another computer.

Well, I'm in Turkey right now with a different computer, and so I can't transfer files. And so I downloaded it from File Front and..the same thing happened on the new computer. It would ask for permission, and then would not work, and then freeze windows. It got so bad that I had to go in to safe mode and delete it. Then, thinking maybe this had something to do with the Filefront upload, I downloaded it from Atomic Gamer and...the same thing happened.

I'm running a Vista notebook that should be more than capable of running EB. Also a Steam install of Alexander.

This sounds a bit like some kind of security problem, but not totally sure. Have heard that there are some security-related problems with Vista, but if it is crashing my desktop then I am beginning to think it is far worse than that.

Thanks for the help in advance.

https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showthread.php?t=103681

Just saw that. What is the UAC exactly?

UAC

Did it work for you by disabling it? The 1.1 installer takes very long to load, to see if it works, use better the smaller 1.2 installer.

XSamatan

Worked! But now when I want to start a game, it says "please select something on the list" when I am on the Single Player screen and try to select EB Main Campaign. Huh.

The installer wasn't run with administration-rights. Either you play along or you install new, this time with "run as ..."

XSamatan

EDIT: Here is a guide that may help you to install new: https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showthread.php?t=80270
Don't install RTW+EB in Program Files.