Support Please

[ColinF]

I have a clean RTW 1.5 install, mods 1.1 and 1.2 installed. Vista Home OS. PC fairly new, 4 gig RAM. EB compatible with XP ....etc etc.

Everything opens up nicely until I select faction and click to start campaign...then instant CTD...every single time.

Ran validation and got:

"You seem to have a clean install.
No change from the expected files is detected."
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What could possibly be wrong?

[XSamatan]

Ran validation and got:

"You seem to have a clean install.
No change from the expected files is detected."

Hi ColinF,

if this appears you did not apply the fixes for 1.2. Do that in any case.
Otherwise you should disable movies (adding -nm to your target line of your EB singleplayer shortcut or by deactivating them with the trivial script). Be sure that RTW is NOT installed within the program files directory as Vista screws that up.

XSamatan

[applebreath]

XS, you deserve a lot of 's for all the good answers and help you give.

Kudos to you.

-Apple

[ColinF]

Thank you Xsamatan.

I tried that and now instead of crashing it simply throws me back to the previous screen.

I think I've stuffed up the 1.2 fixes, so now later on I'll uninstall everything and start from scratch.

[XSamatan]

Try to start EB with administrator-rights.

If you install the hole thing new, see this thread: https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showthread.php?t=80270

XSamatan

[ColinF]

I still CTD on selecting faction and starting SP campaign, but now the validation txt is:

"You don't have an original installation; There are changes to files, or some are missing.
However, these may be conscious changes you have made, to remod EB. See below for details.
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Changed file: .\eb\data\descr_model_battle.txt (expected checksum 62d3d0f9b2618ec123ffb7245dca012c, got c9610c6b5b59b2bcf6433a1fb657de80)
Changed file: .\eb\data\export_descr_buildings.txt (expected checksum 9cb8429b70bc7d1ffea8dff2204de65d, got 1aaf2108e9d0da4c63a6c165babe5dab)
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[ColinF]

I reinstalled everything again, (3rd today) but this time did not install trivial script, whatever that is. Now I'm operational.

Many thanks for help.