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**Belgolas** · 02-25-2009, 05:25

Originally Posted by irishron2004

For what problems I see players are having getting Medieval2 and Kingdoms mods to work on Steam, I don't believe Empires will be getting my money anytime too soon. Steam, being a third party, and can't figure out how to put a mod in its proper folder without frustrating its customers, will not be getting my money too soon. It gives them too much control over my game that I would pay my hard earned money for. BE a conspiracy theory, I don't trust them.

Question: any way to play this game legally without Steam loaded on my computer?

What are you talking about. Mods work fine for me for M2TW and RTW on steam.

Anyways since every single legal copy of ETW will be using steam mods should have no problem of working. I hope ETW does the same way to mod like HL2 does where it creates a separate .exe to launch each mod. If they are done like HL2 it will be far easier and mods will be able to auto patch the mod through steam. HL2 is pretty amazing for mods and there are far more mods for HL2 then Total War and they don't have any problems.

**irishron2004** · 02-25-2009, 06:06

The real question in my mind is why would Sega /CA deal with a third party anyway? The power they are giveng to Steam is still too much for me.

Maybe it's just time to shut up and stick to Rome and M2. Simpler that way for me.

**A Very Super Market** · 02-25-2009, 06:36

What exactly is this power that steam has over your games?

**pevergreen** · 02-25-2009, 07:33

None really...is the multiplayer server and it acts as a verification to make sure its you. The game you buy is tied to your account.

**Polemists** · 02-25-2009, 15:45

So for those of you who only follow this game Dawn of War 2 (A steam game) is having a litany of patch problems and just problems in general. I don't know if this has to do with steam or the game, but more then likely it's a mixture of the both.

For those who have slow loading times some soultions are posted in tw forum center and I dare not go over every single one for lack of time.

Yet one fundemental problem with steam seems to be that steam packs all the files and takes a long time to unpack them (leading to longer load times then normal games, even in offline mode).

Some people found this to be a soultion, some did not,

has anyone on this forum tried yet to unpack the files themselves as explained here?

http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?t=228075

I'm all for trying things but I'm not that tech savy. Rumor is this will half your load times.

**pevergreen** · 02-26-2009, 14:31

It does generally decrease loading times, but it may not. DoW 2 and its problems are specific to it. It uses games for windows live (same thing xbox uses) for multiplayer so its very slow. And the dev team are not patching well. I did the beta...

**gellis23** · 03-01-2009, 02:26

Hi peeps long time lurker (Shogun) first time poster.

Does anyone know how to get around this rubbish? I have two machines, my lappy (which I am on) and my off-line, no AV, no firewall, games machine.

Are CA seriously telling me that if I pay £35 they expect me to go on line to register? Even the MS nazis don't insist on that.

I can do it but it will be so inconvenient it is unreal.

Regards