Does not even start the game!

**QuintusSertorius** · 06-16-2008, 14:08

Originally Posted by mcantu

really? i've never heard that. why?

Ideally only applications should be in that directory. Games, media, all those kinds of things should be well away, if possible on another drive altogether. That way when you regularly format the O/S drive (formatting will of course require the reinstallation of all your apps anyway), you don't have to find somewhere to store/backup your stuff.

**bovi** · 06-16-2008, 18:24

Flickering? Add -nm to the shortcut. It's all in the two links Foot provided.

**Neil** · 06-17-2008, 01:29

Originally Posted by QuintusSertorius

Ideally only applications should be in that directory. Games, media, all those kinds of things should be well away, if possible on another drive altogether. That way when you regularly format the O/S drive (formatting will of course require the reinstallation of all your apps anyway), you don't have to find somewhere to store/backup your stuff.

I don't agree with that. When you format your O/S drive you have to reinstall your games anyway so what point is there in putting them on another drive? You can just copy over the save game folders and save a load of space on your backup drive.

Also my game doesn't even start either. Fresh install of everything, nothing happens when I run, not even in the task manager. A waste of my time and life I will never recover.

**QuintusSertorius** · 06-17-2008, 01:38

The point is I don't need to muck about much with my O/S and apps drive, whereas I'll be chopping and changing media and games all the time. Leaves me a nice, simple, unfragmented O/S drive that's rarely touched, and one for games and such that I can play around with all I like.

**mcantu** · 06-17-2008, 14:37

when EB doesnt start like this its usually because its installed in wrong directory. If you have RTW Gold it installs to a diffenrent directory than what EB defaults to, IIRC

**Swordmaster** · 06-17-2008, 15:28

I have RTW gold, but I simply install it to C:\Rome, and EB straight on top of that. Never had any problems and I've installed it dozens of times on various systems, both Vista and XP.

**RomeForTheWorld** · 06-18-2008, 15:08

Okay, I did say sorry for my language and I wasn't blaming it on the mods here or the game but my computer.

Also, when you usually say sorry about something I don't expect snobbish edits or replys from it. It's language. Get over it.

Anyway, Back to the annoying thing ever.

I know how to use a computer thank you very much. However, If this is a mod. It should go on top of the file I have already made with RTW, and work. So why doesn't it?

I am going intsall the patch you have suggested in post 11. (forgotten your name sorry)

then i am going to test it again.

Oh, and do I have to uninstall EB again, then re-install it so the patches take effect?

Becuase they are all in, the RTW files...and also in the directory, does the EB and RTW have to be in different slots? If so, that's gone wrong...

Regards
L

EDIT: Patch does not work. It goes 'file not found error:404'

**Swordmaster** · 06-18-2008, 15:17

If you have RTW gold, you don't need the patch. It's already patched to 1.5. When you install vanilla RTW, go to the options screen. The version running is in the corner of the screen.

Then install EB to the directory that has the RomeTW.exe file. That means that the EB folder needs to be inside of the folder where RomeTW.exe is, as is shown by the screenshot provided by overweightninja.