I can't access the main campaign

[Grade_A_Beef]

I recently had to re-download everything on account of a new computer, and I decided to try the Alex submod.

Unfortunately, the game now tells me that I need to "choose an item from the list" every time I click the EB main campaign. Seeing as I can't play on the campaign map, I know I've just done something horribly wrong. I'd like some advice on what I'll need to do........thanks in advance

Ahh, I found it. My bad for not searching it up first.....now is there anyways to delete threads?

[Atraphoenix]

Alexander EB has some diffuculties on installing, I had the same problem with you when I have first installed Alexander Eb.
Solution is simple.
1-In your Alexander CD copy "RomeTW-ALX.exe" to C:Program Files\Activision\Rome - Total War folder that you can see other RTW BI exes.
2-again from your Alexander Expansion CD you need to copy chat_filter.san file to EB data folder.
but you have to unpack alex data packs to find it.

This is the full description how you do it by Maximus:

in that link: https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showthread.php?t=94861
open Known bugs spoiler.

:Originally Posted by Gerhard :
There is a common bug when you try to install Alexander..
Most of us use default install location after which is always ''C:\Program Files\Activision\Rome - Total War\..'' but if you use any other HDisk drive to install Alexander - you have a problem!

The installer always checks drive C for diskspace regardless of installationdrive. If you try to install ALEX and the installer quits with "error -1" (or something like that) you are propably a victim of this bug.

To play EB with ALEX.exe you have to copy 2 files from the ALEX-CD to your harddrive!

The easy one first:
Copy ''RomeTW-ALX.exe'' that can be found on the CD into your RTW installation folder, into the same directory where ''RomeTW.exe'' is and/or ''BI.exe'' (if you have one)
The second file is ''chat_filter.san''! This one is also on the CD, but it is packed in CAB files.

Here you need ''i6comp'' program
To get i6comp go to:
http://programmerstools.org/node/123

I will describe how to use i6comp to extract the CAB files, other tools can be found on the net - or google for it.

Unzip the download in some directory, say ''D:\extract''. This should give you, among others, the file ''i6comp.exe''.
From the ALEX CD copy the files ''data1.cab'', ''data1.hdr'' and ''data2.cab'' into the same directory.
Open a Text-editor and create a file ''i6comp.bat'' with the following line:
''i6comp e -r data1.cab''

Save the file in ''D:\extract''.

Doubleclick ''i6comp.bat''.

This will extract A LOT of files and may take some time to complete.
When its done you should find ''chat_filter.san'' in ''D:\extract''.
Copy ''chat_filter.san'' to ''<your RomeEB directory>\EB\data''.

I hope it helps.

Atra


P.S. Mods can delete threads AFAIK.

[Cassus Belli]

Hi Grade_A_Beef,

I may be having a similar problem as yourself, I can't get the Campaign menu screen to open, only diff is I'm trying to play this MOD (EB v1.2) using a RTW-BI v.1.6 CD in my PC.

I was wondering if you could elaborate on what you did to resolve your issue. I sent a PM to Atraphoenix regarding assistance, but he has yet to reply.

I also have an Alexander-RTW CD somewhere, but it isn't handy, probably hiding out with my RTW CD, so all I have available with me is the RTW-BI CD and I would sure like to find a way to get this EB MOD to play if I can.

Any advise is appreciated.

[bovi]

You may want to use Ferromancer's installer for using BI with EB. Maksimus' installer is only compatible with Alexander, and Ferromancer's is only compatible with BI.