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[TruePraetorian]

By patches he means are both up-to-date, such as v1.6 (for Gold), but if you installed the same disc on two different computers then it should be fine.

How are you sending the files to the other computer? If its by internet, try zipping the saves/rar-ing the saves to prevent corruption.

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EDIT: And by the way, it seems you have Vista on your laptop. Make sure that you have enabled full security privelages on both the laptop and the desktop. For Vista, you have to right-click, go to proporties, go to security, click "go advanced", then check the little box the selects all. After that, be sure to save settings. Vista does a great job of making simple things harder (), so it might have gone un-noticed if you are new to Vista.

Also, since you say you are very interested in the Roman era, try the total conversion mod EB. It is a completley historically accurate full-conversion mod. It doesn't overwrite any files, so if you dont like it you can just delete it, but it does take an hour or so to download. Trust me, it worth it.

Hope I helped