Valerius Aenaes: problems running EB

[Valerius.Aenaes]

I've read the other threads on here beforehand, I'm not that guy who just waltzes in blindly and screams about his issue. I've tried everything I've read, I've reinstalled six or seven times now (All of them...EB, RTW and RTW: BI) but nothing I do gets the mod to open. Every single time its Vanilla RTW.

I didn't install Barbarian Invasion this time, because from what I've seen it isn't required for this mod to run. I've had this mod running before, and let me say its awesome. Kudos to you guys on an epic job. If I had never had it running before, it wouldn't be such a big deal...but I have and I know what I'm missing, which makes it worse.

I recently had to reinstall Windows XP on my computer. A virus attack made me have to install a clean copy and start fresh. I lost about 2gb worth of music and around 1.5gb worth of pictures. The music wasn't a big deal...I had backups on my MP3 player. But that was ten months worth of pictures at around 150kb a picture. 150kb / 1.5gb? Think about it...thats a lot of pictures. Feel my woe.

Back to the point here.

I can't get Europa Barbarorum to open. Like I said, I've reinstalled a bunch, I've installed the fixes, RTW is fully updated and everything. Nothing I'm doing is working for me and its quite frustrating.

I did, however, install the mod into the Programs directory, into the same folder as RTW Vanilla. The game gave me a warning as I did that but I'd seen things on here telling me to ignore the warning and do it anyways. Is that the problem? Because I play another mod for a game on The Lord of the Rings - Battle for Middle-Earth 2: The Rise of the Witch-King (RJ-ROTWK is the mod name, check it out if you play) where it would do this EXACT same thing if I installed the file in the programs folder with the vanilla game installation itself. Perhaps I need to install it in a different area? Either way. This has worked for me before, please help me get it working again?

Thanks guys :D I owe you all one. Once more, KUDOS on a great freaking mod. You turned Rome: Total War from a great strategy game into one of the absolute best, most historically accurate computer strategy games I've seen in a loooong time. Plus...I mean, c'mon.

Rome kicks ass.