Please help game will not start

[lordbuxton]

EB will not start up. When i doble click the shortcut i opens rtw. I then get the message rtw has encounterd an unspecified error and will close.

Heres the shortcuts target
"D:\my games\The Creative Assembly\Rome - Total War\RomeTW.exe.exe" -mod:eb -nm -show_error

Heres the shortcuts start in
"D:\my games\The Creative Assembly\Rome - Total War"

I have the correct version of rtw version 1.5 or version 15 one of them

My computers spec are very good.

A fast reply would be appreciated

And before you ask i have the EB folder in rtw file.

[lordbuxton]

That was my mistake didnt copy and paste it all.


Can i play this mod without useing the shortcut ?

[bovi]

Actually it should be show_err, not show_error. See the validation post for a number of suggestions for getting around the problem. Post the validation results here if none of them work.

[lordbuxton]

Actually it should be show_err, not show_error. See the validation post for a number of suggestions for getting around the problem. Post the validation results here if none of them work.

Changed it to err still dose not work.

[lordbuxton]

EB will not start up. When i doble click the shortcut i opens rtw. I then get the message rtw has encounterd an unspecified error and will close.

Heres the shortcuts target
"D:\my games\The Creative Assembly\Rome - Total War\RomeTW.exe.exe" -mod:eb -nm -show_err

Heres the shortcuts start in
"D:\my games\The Creative Assembly\Rome - Total War"

I have the correct version of rtw version 1.5 or version 15 one of them

My computers spec are very good.

update

I tried it with trival script and it still dose not work same results as last time. The new path is now

"D:\my games\EBTrivialScript\EBTrivialScript.exe" -s ebconfig.xml -runeb -type "Single player"

Any ideas ?

also do not refer me to a help thread as they are slow and they cant fix this problem

[lordbuxton]

Validation result do not show.

[bovi]

Heres the shortcuts target
"D:\my games\The Creative Assembly\Rome - Total War\RomeTW.exe.exe" -mod:eb -nm -show_err

also do not refer me to a help thread as they are slow and they cant fix this problem

Marked an error, there should only be one ".exe" in there.

How can you say that the help threads can't fix the problem? They are there because they fix most problems. Your problem in particular has many possible solutions listed. And how is it slower to read finished solutions than to wait for a day or two for someone to tell you the same thing?

https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showthread.php?t=93236

You need to try the solutions. And you need to tell us what you've done. How else can we know what to suggest next?

[lordbuxton]

Marked an error, there should only be one ".exe" in there.

How can you say that the help threads can't fix the problem? They are there because they fix most problems. Your problem in particular has many possible solutions listed. And how is it slower to read finished solutions than to wait for a day or two for someone to tell you the same thing?

https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showthread.php?t=93236

You need to try the solutions. And you need to tell us what you've done. How else can we know what to suggest next?

I tried all the solution none work. And the file is called rtw.exe so there should be two .exe in the path way.


can you give a link or something to one of these help threads then ?

[Tellos Athenaios]

Well there always is that overview of what is important for forum users. There is Bovi's signature. And now there is mine added to the mix as well.

[bovi]

the file is called rtw.exe so there should be two .exe in the path way.

Umm... No. That is, if you didn't copy another version in of course. Which would explain your problem.

can you give a link or something to one of these help threads then ?

I did. Are you familiar with the concept of clicking a link on the internet?

I tried all the solution none work.

Whenever someone here has said "I've tried all the solutions", they so far invariably have not. Provide details. Here, I've copied the listed solutions from the validation thread for you.

_ Using a nocd crack? Your game won't work, use the original executable instead. There is no point in trying the rest of the list until you install a fresh, clean 1.5 RTW.
_ Missing a file called MSS32.DLL, or the game complains about 3D audio or the sound database? Get this file and put it in your RTW folder.
_ Install RTW and EB once again, from scratch
_ Install using 7-zip rather than installer
_ Download a map.rwm file and place it in eb/data/world/maps/base (requires both the disaster and Oppida permanent fixes)
_ Add -nm to the shortcut. This disables movies. Using an NVidia 8xxx graphics card? No movies for you, you will probably HAVE to add this switch. If you have installed the Trivial Script, you will not have to change the shortcut, but rather just tick the box that disables movies.
_ Add -ne to the shortcut (and in combination with -nm too). This makes the game windowed. No idea why this would work, but in one case it did.
_ Delete some interfering files that Vista hides in its bowels. These are reported to be in C:\Users\<your username>\AppData\Local\VirtualStore\Program Files\Activision\Rome - Totalwar, at least in one instance where it helped.
_ For Vista users, install RTW and EB in a folder outside of "program files". This means changing the default location! You can also try to simply move the RTW installation, but you may be missing some files, so installation is the safest bet.
_ Run the validation tool to diagnose the problem
_ Install the fixes linked in my sig.
_ Extract this archive into your <RTW>/EB/Data folder. It will disable the Greek voicemod, but has proven to make the mod work for at least one user (a very patient one at that).
_ Add more swap space in Windows, and other technical measures you can take
_ Using RTW Gold, or an installation otherwise including Barbarian Invasion or Alexander? Try to uninstall everything and install RTW without BI and Alex (remember to patch it to 1.5 if installing from the non-gold RTW disc set).
_ Got an ATI Radeon X700 graphics card? Apparently some setting called "Support DXT textures format" is creating problems. Try to change this setting for the driver called "Support DXT textures format". Try it if you've got any ATI card, really.
_ Try to upgrade your graphics drivers. If it still doesn't work, try to downgrade them.
_ For ATI graphics cards: I'm currently using 6-10_xp-2k_dd_36790.exe as my driver, and have no problems. Downgrading to this has helped at least one other person to get EB to work. Another reports that ATI Catalyst 9.3 fixes his issues.
_ Using Nero Burning ROM? This interferes with RTW. You need to either uninstall (which is easiest) or find and rename Nero's NeVideo.ax and NeAudio.ax files.
_ Check that vanilla RTW works (before or after installing EB). If it doesn't, your problem is not with EB.
_ Validation tool says that you are missing patch_1.pak (or something similar)? Get this file and extract it in <RTW>/data/packs.
_ Try to copy the settings found here into both <RTW>/EB/preferences/player.txt and <RTW>/EB/preferences/preferences.txt.

[Tellos Athenaios]

To clarify: the .exe file should be called RomeTW.exe.

An example of how a shortcut MIGHT look is:

Target: "C:\Users\MyUserName\Games\RomeTW\RomeTW.exe" -show_err -mod:eb -ne -nm
StartIn: "C:\Users\MyUserName\Games\RomeTW"

Question: do you have Java installed? If not try installing Java and doing the validation again (it is software which depends on Java).

Question: do you actually have DirectX 9.0b or 9.0c installed? RTW requires it. (EDIT: If you can run RTW just itself fine, battles and all without unspecified errors etc. then you can ignore that.)

[lordbuxton]

I know what the problem is. But i cant fix it.

Turns outs you get the unspecified error message from rtw vanilla if your sound card dose not work.
My drivers are all damaged to the point where they are beyond repair. Didnt think my broken sound sytem would stop rome from playing. But the realy sad thing is that all new sound drivers i install/download are all broke and refuse to work.

[lordbuxton]

On a other note can some one tell me how to burn this game on to a cd/ dvd.

I try it on my other computer that is infested with spyware.

[bovi]

Sir, you do not need to burn it out to a CD. You need to HAVE a CD. An original one. See the first point in the list?

Using a nocd crack? Your game won't work, use the original executable instead. There is no point in trying the rest of the list until you install a fresh, clean 1.5 RTW.

Buy the game. It's worth the few bucks it will cost you these days.