europa barbarum won't start

Here is the ebvalidation results.

You seem to have a corrupt install. There are changes to files, or some are missing.
However, these may be conscious changes you have made, to remod EB. See below for details.
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Changed file: .\eb\data\world\maps\battle\custom\279 bc - battle of ausculum\description.txt (expected checksum e54e6f6ba0c7cbb4eb7a2016e2f17842, got 0337a879748a757b21957959beb00873)
Changed file: .\eb\mp game edu backup\map.rwm (expected checksum 1c90eb5933e8e610f00bdd692ca60048, got ca3d6899906a707189b700241a6e2797)
Added file: .\eb play.lnk
Added file: .\extras\ebtrivialscript_setup.exe
Added file: .\extras\eb_documentation.exe
Added file: .\extras\eb_rv_setup.exe
Added file: .\unins000.dat
Added file: .\unins000.exe


Its version 1.1.

Thank you for posting the validation results, not many do until they are told to... Anyway, there are no significant changes here, so it should be working.

Have you tried to wait it out? The first time EB starts it usually takes longer than later. Does it crash, or just don't seem to load for a long time?

There are also a number of suggestions that have helped others in the validation post.

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Originally Posted by bovi

Thank you for posting the validation results, not many do until they are told to... Anyway, there are no significant changes here, so it should be working.

Have you tried to wait it out? The first time EB starts it usually takes longer than later. Does it crash, or just don't seem to load for a long time?

There are also a number of suggestions that have helped others in the validation post.

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No, It loads Vanilla RTW, with no hint of EB whatsoever. I followed the directions, re-installed about 5 times before posting.

I installed RTW, then the 1.3 patch, then 1.5 patch, then EB 1.1 in the RTW folder.

I really want to play this mod.

Ah, I see. Your shortcut isn't correct, the installer has a bug. You need to change the shortcut or install the Trivial Script to run EB. The target line of the shortcut is supposed to look like this:
C:\Games\RomeEB1.1\RomeTW.exe -mod:eb -nm -show_err -ne
All the other switches aren't necessary, but you have to have the mod switch. Replace C:\Games\RomeEB1.1 with wherever you installed EB, of course.

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Originally Posted by bovi

Ah, I see. Your shortcut isn't correct, the installer has a bug. You need to change the shortcut or install the Trivial Script to run EB. The target line of the shortcut is supposed to look like this:
C:\Games\RomeEB1.1\RomeTW.exe -mod:eb -nm -show_err -ne
All the other switches aren't necessary, but you have to have the mod switch. Replace C:\Games\RomeEB1.1 with wherever you installed EB, of course.

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Ha, I would have thought it would have been in the install walk through.

Probably a good mistake, I like this forum. :beam:

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Originally Posted by bovi

Ah, I see. Your shortcut isn't correct, the installer has a bug. You need to change the shortcut or install the Trivial Script to run EB. The target line of the shortcut is supposed to look like this:
C:\Games\RomeEB1.1\RomeTW.exe -mod:eb -nm -show_err -ne
All the other switches aren't necessary, but you have to have the mod switch. Replace C:\Games\RomeEB1.1 with wherever you installed EB, of course.

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how do I do the "-mod:eb -nm" thing?

For that matter, how do I do a mod switch?

Sorry, I assumed you knew how to change shortcuts. I just typed more detailed instructions here. Take a look, and ask here if it's unclear.

Alright, I got it to work, but game play freezes and is choppy, even on low settings. My computer isn't the problem, because my computer plays Medieval 2 on high settings just fine.

That's just EB. Lot of stuff is packed into it, and its not hardcoded stuff, unlike the vanilla CA games (hardcoding makes game run faster, having a lot of non-hardcoded data, as EB does, slows it down). I have a a roughly 1 ghz processor and 1 gig RAM desktop, and EB runs pretty quickly on the highest settings. I haven't even tried playing EB on my new laptop, which has a dual core 2.4 ghz processor and 4 gigs of RAM, since my crappy desktop is running EB perfectly. I remember in the first month of playing EB, it ran slowly, but then it unexplainably sped up. And I don't even have v 1.2 yet. M2TW runs faster overall, but it is frustratingly laggy even on medium battle settings. Good thing I hate M2TW.

I had choppiness until I upgraded my CPU driver. Perhaps you should too. Beyond that, yes EB takes a toll on your computer's resources, more than M2TW.

Also, now that you have 1.1 working you should upgrade to EB 1.2. It will be a lot faster in the campaign map.

Thanks for the responses guys, gonna upgrade the game to 1.2.