Can't load campaign after installing 1.1

[Flying Pig]

Aha! I think you may have put it in the wrong directory.

OK. I had this at first. Try the following:

BACK UP EVERY OUNCE OF SAVEGAME ON YOUR MACHINE TO SOMEWHERE REMOTE!

Unistall every ounce of RTW on your computer

Re-install vanilla. DO NOT INSTALL IN YOUR PROGRAM FILES DIRECTORY

Play it to check if it works.

Install Patch 1.3

Play the game again

Install Patch 1.5

Run the EB installer, ensuring that your target directory is correct.

Play EB

Only now do you even contemplate installing BI/Alexander

[bovi]

As Flying Pig says, you should definitely try to get the installation working with RTW 1.5 first, with no expansions. I believe that is one of the suggestions in the validation sticky, if not I'll add it right now.

Edit: Tweaked the sticky text so it's more clear, hopefully.

[fatsweets]

I will try your suggestions Friday night and I am pretty sure that we have resolved this. I did build 1.0 this way with no problems so I didn't think it would cause a problem this time. I will let you know what the result is.

Thanks for the help.

[fatsweets]

I uninstalled all of EB, RTW and BI. Then installed RTW w/ the 3 discs, installed the 1.3 patch then the 1.5 patch, I tried playing RTW and it worked perfectly. I then installed EB 1.1 and it froze in the same spot as before after picking a faction when starting a campaign, so I did a validation and here it is:

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\descr_battle_map_lighting_and_fog_control.txt (expected checksum cb93a428e536cfa294ff85bf1d9ceca1, got 23942befd1eebbd7b829f750745c3081)
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 configuration.lnk
Added file: .\eb multi player.lnk
Added file: .\eb preferences.lnk
Added file: .\extras\ebtrivialscript_setup.exe
Added file: .\extras\eb_documentation.exe
Added file: .\extras\eb_rv_setup.exe
Added file: .\persistent_logs\ai_subterfuge.txt
Added file: .\persistent_logs\issued_advice.txt
Added file: .\persistent_logs\issued_ancillaries.txt
Added file: .\persistent_logs\issued_traits.txt
Added file: .\unins000.dat
Added file: .\unins000.exe

Please help.

[bovi]

Those files being changed shouldn't make any difference to starting the campaign. So it has to be something else. Is this a correct indication of the things you've tried so far? You should try the rest of them, starting with the -ne and -nm switches probably, as these are quick and easy to test.

X Using a nocd crack? Your game won't work, use the original executable instead. There is no point in trying the rest of the list until you install a fresh, clean 1.5 RTW.
X Install RTW and EB once again, from scratch
_ Add -nm to the shortcut. This disables movies. Using an NVidia 8xxx graphics card? No movies for you, you will probably HAVE to add this switch.
_ Add -ne to the shortcut (and in combination with -nm too). This makes the game windowed. No idea why this would work, but in one case it did.
_ Delete some interfering files that Vista hides in its bowels. These are reported to be in C:\Users\<your username>\AppData\Local\VirtualStore\Program Files\Activision\Rome - Totalwar, at least in one instance where it helped.
X For Vista users, install RTW and EB in a folder outside of "program files". This means changing the default location! You can also try to simply move the RTW installation, but you may be missing some files, so installation is the safest bet.
X Run the validation tool to diagnose the problem
_ Install the fixes linked in my sig.
_ Add more swap space in Windows, and other technical measures you can take
X Using RTW Gold, or an installation otherwise including Barbarian Invasion or Alexander? Try to uninstall everything and install RTW without BI and Alex (remember to patch it to 1.5 if installing from the non-gold RTW disc set).
_ Got an ATI Radeon X700 graphics card? Apparently some setting called "Support DXT textures format" is creating problems. Try to change this setting for the driver called "Support DXT textures format". Try it if you've got any ATI card, really.
_ Try to upgrade your graphics drivers. If it still doesn't work, try to downgrade them.
_ For ATI graphics cards: I'm currently using 6-10_xp-2k_dd_36790.exe as my driver, and have no problems. Downgrading to this has helped at least one other person to get EB to work.
_ Using Nero Burning ROM? Apparently it does something weird to TGA files that causes CTDs when starting EB. At least three forum members got EB to work after uninstalling Nero.
X Check that vanilla RTW works (before or after installing EB). If it doesn't, your problem is not with EB.
X Validation tool says that you are missing patch_1.pak (or something similar)? Get this file and extract it in <RTW>/data/packs.
_ Try to copy the settings found here into both <RTW>/EB/preferences/player.txt and <RTW>/EB/preferences/preferences.txt.

[fatsweets]

Thanks Bovi for your continued help and this is the additional items I have tried on the list:

1. Added -nm and -ne to shortcut and still crashed in the same spot.

2. I use XP so I didn't try anything to do with Vista.

3. I deleted and unistalled nero programs on my computer.

4. Ran a chckdsk \f and rebooted computer.

After all this game still crashes in same spot everytime. As flying pig mentioned above could something be wrong with my Target directory? What should my Target Directory look like? I copied mine and this is what it is:

"C:\Program Files\EBTrivialScript\EBTrivialScript.exe" -s ebconfig.xml -runeb -type "Single Player" -nm -ne