No, he said he made a copy of his installation, but possibly he installed into the wrong folder. The validation doesn't actually fix anything, but it is very useful to see whether it is installed correctly, so please run it.
Please post your full path to the RTW folder (such as c:\games\RTW_EB), and whether you are using the Trivial Script. You appear to be using a custom shortcut with errors, take note of spaces:
"RomeTW.exe-mod:eb-show error" should be
"RomeTW.exe -mod:eb -show_err"
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