Help with 1.1 installation

[Ravenic]

Hullo. A few quick questions before I need to go.

I'm trying to install 1.1 EB here, but I'm having some issues. Firstly, I've made sure to have a clean install of R:TW 1.5. I've gone as far as to manually uninstall each patch, each mod, and then delete all of the files from the 'Activision' folder afterwords.

The problem is that when I try to patch to 1.2 it says that I already have it...don't think so, but whatever. I go ahead with 1.3 and 1.5, and the installation did not work correctly.

I tried again, this time instead of patching I'm simply installing BI, which I believe patches to 1.5 for you.

Anyways, in both scenarios when I try to install the mod I get to the point "Setup will install Europa Barbarorum into the following folder:" and it says in the box "C:\Rome - Total War"

However, when I click 'Next' it says "Destination Directory is not valid. Please choose folder from where Rome: Total War was installed". Keep in mind that vanilla Rome:Total war works fine. And then, if I click 'Ok' it'll install it anyways, but I never find an option to create a shortcut on my desktop. And, EB 1.1 won't launch from the start menu or the folder in Program Files either.

Help please? I tried to type that as fast as I could since I need to be leaving soon, so I hope that was enough information for maybe someone to figure out whats wrong.

[bovi]

Hello. I made a thread earlier requesting technical help with EB installation, but its gone pretty much ignored. Of course later I would realize I probably posted it in the wrong place ...but oh well. Here it is.

https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showthread.php?t=107654

I've tried several other things since I posted my thread, including uninstalls, reinstalls, messing with target paths for shortcuts. Nothing seems to work! Most recently I managed to install EB 1.1 into program files/activision/rome - total war, and going off of the start menu's 'programs list' (I use Windows XP) I found the Europa Barbarorum heading, and clicked 'Play'. Much to my dismay it only opened up Vanilla Rome: Total War. Finally I've buckled and have put a copy of Rome - Total War in a place *besides* program files, like suggested in the help threads, and I'll throw EB in there and see if it works.

At any rate, I know my information probably isn't very good, and is spotty at best, but hopefully you can offer some sort of insight, or maybe simply create a short guide to installing 1.1 as opposed to 1.0...though I don't see why they'd be very different. Any help you can offer would be greatly appreciated!

Yes, posting in the wrong place would be a mistake, but you haven't waited very long either.

You've installed EB into an RTW installation under program files, which works well enough on XP. However, there is a bug in the installer that doesn't make a proper shortcut, so you need to either manually change the shortcut (to include -mod:eb) or install the trivial script and use that to run the game.

[Ravenic]

So I would need to go to the R:TW shortcut and actually use -mod:eb ?

And failing that, how would I be able to utilize the 'Trivial Script'? I know there's an option for it in the installer, but when I included it and tried to run EB I just got an error message involving said Trivial Script.

Also, if you'd like to move this to the proper forum then feel free.

[bovi]

I did move it already .

No, you need to change the EB shortcut to include -mod:eb, but changing the RTW one would work too IF it points to the RTW installation where you have EB installed. You can use the trivial script by installing it and then using the shortcuts that are made when you do so.