No EB playing time

I downloaded EB today and the icon that came up looked like a website window. When I click on it, it says I need to insert the correct cd rom and even if i do i still get vannila RTW. I read some of the thing you guys posted prior to installing but still nothing this is my third time and im tired of getting it wrong, error messages, bugs( one that prevented me from playing the first time), wierd twist of fate, or any other cr@p I get. im starting to think that its impossible to do this. I wouldnt have posted this if it was not important but this has been going on for months! if anybody helps it would be GREATLY appreciated. I know you guys are tired of help me questions but i cant get this thing to work. please! any help!

Probably annoying, but: could you be a little more specific?
Currently you leave me utterly ~:confused: .


Correct me if I'm wrong:
you got a clean RTW install, patched to 1.5, downloaded EB 0.8, installed EB 0.8 in your RTW directory, and it went more or less bonkers?

What download link did you use, btw?

RTW directory? i did every thing but that, also i tried installing it before this time(current install) but i pressed cancel when (i think) the files were extracting and i was unable to uninstall that so maybe that was corrupted. anyways does that have to do with this? corrupted files from another install? and the icon has not changed to a EB icon and when i clicked on proporties for that EB file it said there is no short cut key thats the info i have right now, i used the down load link EB FTP. but installing it to the EB directory i dont think so, all i followed everything up to downloading EB on what you said. and THANK YOU not much people care about install issues

Hello and welcome to the Org K COSSACK ~:wave:

ALBM's big short simple guide on how to install EB with no problems.

1. Uninstall your current installation of R:TW.
2. Re-install R:TW.
3. (If you have Gold do not do this step, skip to step five) Download the 1.3 patch for R:TW from here and follow the instructions in the readme. If you have problems with this just ask.
4. (If you have Gold do not do this step, go to step five) Download the 1.5 patch for R:TW from here. Again follow the instruction in the readme and if you need any help ask here.
5. Download EB from here.
6. Install EB and follow the instructions until it askes you where you want to install EB.
7. (If you don't have Gold skip this step) If you have Gold change it to C:\Program Files\The Creative Assembly\Rome: Total War
8. Let the installer do it's magic.
9. Play EB from the shortcut on the desktop. Whatever you do do not delete it. It is the only possible way of accessing EB.
10. Keep the EB installer somewhere safe on your hard drive. You will need it if you delete your shortcut.

ALBM's short simple guide on how to access EB if you have deleted the shortcut on your desktop.

1. Right click on your desktop, left click on new and then click on shortcut.
2. (If you have Gold skip to step four) When it says "type the location of the item" type in "C:\Program Files\Activision\Rome - Total War\RomeTW.exe" -mod:eb -nm -show_err" (without the punctuation marks).
3. (If you do not have Gold got skip to step four) When it says "type the location of the item" type in "C:\Program Files\The Creative Assembly\Rome - Total War\RomeTW.exe" -mod:eb -nm -show_err" (without the punctuation marks).
4. Play EB using the shortcut on the desktop.

This does not work if you have pointed your R:TW to a different directory on installation.

Good luck playing EB,
Avlvs

Avlvs, your short simple shortcut guide doesn't work when one has not installed RTW in the C\Program Files\The Creative Assembly\Rome: Total War folder...

Thanks glad to be here and be a fellow EB member! some more info, I do not have gold, I have patch 1.3 and 1.5 but not 1.2, and... C:\Program Files\The Creative Assembly\Rome: Total War.. I simply do not know how to do this, actually Ive never succesfully downloaded a mod in my life. Maybe I will have better luck this time.

Maybe you could tell me where the C:\program files\ is or what it is:inquisitive: . I have only accessed RTW but not played it yet, and have the patches installed(1.3 and 1.5 but no 1.2 becuase I don't have it) but I will uninstall anyways and I guess i'll have to download EB AGAIN...

*Never mind the exact paths.*

As long as:
you have a clean (that is unmodded) version of RTW, patched to 1.5 somewhere on your harddrive;
and you can still find it;
and you have EB 0.8 downloaded;
and you have installed it properly (that is, following the installer instructions & don't cancel it... never).
You should then be able to play EB... :balloon3:

So if anything went wrong, check the list to see if you might have forgotten something. Also, if you get any weird/ unexpected errors, be sure to read the FAQ...

alright I just hope I get it this time, also I still have the same vanilla RTW there and only accessed it once. I hope that doesnt affect the EB install. I havent even played it though I did click on the prologue and imperial campaign.

Though that C:\program files\ thing has me worried, I never used or did something like that before... Oh! I found out that my game points to \ACTIVISION\ instead of CREATIVE ASSEMBLY the rest is the same

C:\program files\ is the directory where your OS normally puts everything. You /are/ running windows, arent you?

If you want to find it, simply double click on the 'my computer' icon on your desktop, in which you should find icons for your hard drives, cd drives, etc,etc. 'C' is usually the main hard drive. It is the one windows was installed onto. It usually has a name like Local Disc or something. The (C:) will be in brackets after the name.

'Program Files' should be a folder in there when you open it. Normally you have to click 'show files' to make them visible, as windows tries to prevent people who dont know what they are doing from tinkering...

C:\Program Files\The Creative Assembly\Rome: Total War is like an address. If you follow the string along, you will find what you are looking for.

You might have 'Activision' instead of 'The Creative Assembly'. I do. I think it depends when you bought your Rome discs. So the shortcut may look like C:\Program Files\Activision\Rome: Total War

.......I tried again... I even switched \activision\ to \creative assembly\(this time I got an EB icon but when I clicked on it it said missing shortcut). But still it seems someone really doesnt want me to play this game. you know maybe I should just give up(i am a quitter) and just stick around and watch screen shots of EB. I could still play as the julli in vanilla (for the 15 time) and I should just forget about ever trying again since i'll only get my hopes up and dashed. Everytime I do this I end up with dissapointment. So i'll just stick around the forums and read what everybody has to say knowing I cant give help because I have any EB experiance. so thank you
TELLOS ATHENAIOS,

AVLVS LIBVRNIVS BRITANICVS MAXIMVS,

KUGUTSU

Ok im back from my tantrum and i'll try,try, and try again. Any other helpful hints?:help: also could anyone describes what happens when you click on EB?

*embarrased about what I wrote above but has a reason to*

Pity...

Perhaps if you posted all steps you took, one by one, someone, peraps even me, could help you out...?

If you don't know where to start:

Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 

I understand that you do have Vanilla RTW patched to 1.5, and are now sick and tired of having to point an installer to it over and over again?
I also understand that you downloaded EB 0.8, without any trouble (perhaps your download was interupted, perhaps you used a link which is not officially supported... describe it all. My download is 363.065 kb in size, thus, should a quick check on your part lead to a different size...> probably corrupted/wrong download link.)
I got it that you hadn't any trouble at all during the EB installation process (you double clicked the installer, ran it, and didn't do anything but specify what your Vanilla RTW 1.5 folder actually was, it did it's work and gave the sweet 'installation succes' message)?
I got it also that the installer made a shortcut on your desktop, which has the correct path (adress) and the -mod switch in the target line?

Perhaps, if you posted some screenshot's of the screen that pops up when you run the shortcut? (If you don't know how to make such a screenshot: press the 'Prnt Scrn' key and open some picture editing programme, (photo editor, paint, whatever), and 'paste'...) Always do this when you get an error report, it allows you 'acces' to the error later on.

Right, right... I pressed print screen but i dont know if anything happened... and um.. I deleted paint but ican describe alot of what happened (from hours of trying) i'll work on that and does adobe work? now to what happened.

the EB icon (decietly named 0.8 and not dissapointment and sorrow) was there, I put the cd in and clicked on the icon( also the RTW vanilla icon was their too but didnt click on it) that square RTW vanilla screen poped up I did not click on that only the EB icon. so the screen showed those logos and that RTW trailer. Then a greek phalanx picture was in the background while it loaded. the phalanx picture was still there (I entered several times and it would switch to the battle thing) I clicked on prologue, imperial campaign, just about everything. when I clicked on the options it said it was ver. 1.5 and thats when the tantrum I had was at its peak.

In short, everything was vanilla. The load, background, screen, EVERYTHING . Its as if I never installed it.
EDIT: yes it gave the install success.
What is the EB screen supposed to look like? I almost had it one time before 0.8 came out and almost made it if it wasnt for a load bug.

Perhaps, dunno, but it's always worth testing: if you tried to run EB after you have closed the Vanilla thing you mentioned? So, put the cd disc in the drive, wait till it pops up, close it, and then double click the EB shortcut on your desktop.

Ok, i'll do that. And also I think this is more than mere download problems. It is impossible to think that my computer (dell) refuses to run EB. I must be getting closer to it since I finnaly got the EB icon instead of some window icon. Did I mention I the last time I installed EB I did not reinstall the RTW game? still fresh though. I only clicked into menu's and imperial campaign.

EDIT: I tried what you said Tellos and it did not work... what if I reinstalled it? I saw one time when I pressed save instead of run when I downloaded this I saw an EB install thing. maybe that would work or reinstall both EB and RTW....and I tried to access EB through start and it said

"problem with shortcut" furthermore"the item 'RomeTW.exe' that this shortcut refers to has changed or moved, so this shortcut will no longer work properly.

"nearest match based on size, date, and type: C:\program files\ the creative assembly\Rome...\ RomeTW.exe"
then it just told me if I want to fix it so it point to this target or just delet it and I already tried the fix it option.

I wonder if EB team can fix so the patch 0.81 works like when I installed 0.74?? Becouse I also had some problems before I could play 0.80. Becouse the patch for 0.74 was much more newbie friendly, that one was only to open and play lol. Thanks

Also, that repair thing that shows along with remove and install, it says it fixes shortcuts and I think I narrowed the problem down to that (shortcut). I ran that and it still hasn't fixed my problem.

do any of you guys out there know how to fix shortcuts?

the computer says there is a missing shortcut when clearly I downloaded it and the icon is there.

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Originally Posted by K COSSACK

EDIT: I tried what you said Tellos and it did not work... what if I reinstalled it? I saw one time when I pressed save instead of run when I downloaded this I saw an EB install thing. maybe that would work or reinstall both EB and RTW....and I tried to access EB through start and it said

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Ah, this may very well explain everything: you need to save the download first; and then run it. If you try otherwise, you're merely trying to run something that doesn't exist (yet).

So: save your download, when it's done, run your download by double clicking it (a box will pop up) and confirm that you're going to run it, follow the instructions you're given by the installer... And perhaps, who knows (most likely), you will be able to play EB... :balloon3:

Um, run it? I saved it but to get that running thing i would need to install it all over again (just to get the RUN button). Unless there was another way to get there i.e somewhere in the start menu? I need help on that.

I clicked on the icon again STILL it says missing shortcut...and by EB install I'm correcting myself, it says EB setup

EDIT: nevermind l I think I know where your getting at. And why do I get a modify, repair, or remove option? doesn't that mean I already have it installed? Btw I think I have a solution uninstall,reinstall, press RUN instead of save and wait till it installs!

If you double click the installer this screen should pop up:
https://img234.imageshack.us/img234/9361/runax5.jpg

That's what I meant, when I told you to run it...

Yeah I understand now. I think I know where my mistake was. I'll wait till the weekend to install again, I already uninstaled EB and rome TW, so I'll be sure to correct myself and play.

and I think that people should be stongly recommended to press RUN instead of SAVE. Or else you won't know what to do.

THANKS TELLOS!:2thumbsup:
(though if I still cant get this to run I'll really be -explicit-!)

:2thumbsup: uh, i think you mean save instead of run.. and most people... know that already..:inquisitive:

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Originally Posted by Tellos Athenaios

If you double click the installer this screen should pop up:
https://img234.imageshack.us/img234/9361/runax5.jpg

That's what I meant, when I told you to run it...

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Johan made EB too? That man is amazing.

No, of course not...

(The user which installed it...)

Save instead of run... really? seriously really? what happens if I press run instead of save? I pressed save and I cant play so I was hoping pressing run would help, unless I'm supposed to do something else after I install it using save (this time I will not do) then tell me what it is!:dizzy2:

Uh dude.. seriously.. have you never saved a program from the internet before? Heres what you do bud. Save the file to your desktop. once it gets to your desktop hit double click it to unpack the program and install EB into your RTW directory.

Sorry ZAKNAFIAN but...nope. Every time I try I always fail. Really this is sort of my first time(not counting the other failed times, lets say generaly). I almost had EB once if it were not for a load bug before 0.80, and that was theonly time I even saw the load screen, so I have never played this.

I did the steps over and over, unpacking the program several different ways
(like going to start) but still nothing. I cant understand why my computer refuses to let me play.:no:

Why don't you make a bunch of screenshots (download box, several pictures of the installation process...) and upload them using this link? Use the first tumbnail code for forums,

Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 

when you upload you'll find out what I mean, because that's just a line in the 'form', after you hosted you picture

, and perhaps those pictures can explain what you may have been impossible to explain.

Oh, and on a side note: did you happen to leave your PC during download, because you thought "he's doing fine without me, he'll be busy for quite a while, so let's do something else somewhere else", or anything like it? Because if you did, your PC may have shut down your Internet connections: WINDOWS considers it to be nice to you & safe for your PC to switch to stand by mode in case of a prolonged inactivity of the user, and to do that, it shuts down internet connections and such... Such a thing may have resulted in a series of incompleted downloads, which may in turn explain why time after time EB didn't work: it would not have been fully installed (as part of the files would have been missing).

Ok I'll do that. And I tried to download again except it was gone and I did't know why...
I read what you said but it was too late...
Now how do I take pictures? I'm very new to this. Also how do you upload on to that link?
The screen saver poped up once or twice when ever I dowload this so your saying thats the problem? and I still did not do a good job of explaing... well then I guess its on to pictures.:help:

What browser are you using? maybe if you use a browser with a good download manager it will be easier.