'ERROR: Cannot find the M2TW executable.'

It claims that I haven't installed EBII in a "folder containing a M2TW" installation. I put it in C:/Program Files (x86)/Medieval II Total War/mods. Is this the wrong area? I've tried every way to play it, but it gives me some variation of this message.

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Originally Posted by Mouthwash1

It claims that I haven't installed EBII in a "folder containing a M2TW" installation. I put it in C:/Program Files (x86)/Medieval II Total War/mods. Is this the wrong area? I've tried every way to play it, but it gives me some variation of this message.

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Greetings,

The correct folder is C:/Program Files (x86)/Medieval II Total War (not mods).

After that run it using the Kingdoms disc.

~Fluvius

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Originally Posted by Fluvius Camillus

Greetings,

The correct folder is C:/Program Files (x86)/Medieval II Total War (not mods).

After that run it using the Kingdoms disc.

~Fluvius

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OK, I reinstalled it properly. It gave me a popup saying 'shared.txt:{gerr_generic}' and refused to open.

Here.

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Originally Posted by bovi

Here.

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Tried everything. Reinstalled and then used the fix, too. Same result no matter what.

Then I'm afraid we're out of solutions, until we can release a new version where this string thing is fixed.

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Originally Posted by bovi

Then I'm afraid we're out of solutions, until we can release a new version where this string thing is fixed.

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String thing?

String thing = "shared.txt:{gerr_generic}". What is happening is that we've supplied binary files to the game, which it should be using directly, but for some reason the game decides to try to convert the regular text files into binary files - on some computers. As we don't have those text files (but rather XML files), it fails to do that conversion and then won't start.