EB for Macintosh - questions & support thread

[njohns99]

Success! I guess I didn't realize there was an updated version of the mod on Feral's website but not on the EB site.

Thank you so much for the help. Looking forward to Napoleon!

[Edwin@Feral]

Success! I guess I didn't realize there was an updated version of the mod on Feral's website but not on the EB site.

Thank you so much for the help. Looking forward to Napoleon!

I guess I need to remind them of the new location when I updated it for 1.3 :)

Enjoy!

Edwin

[colemadi]

Hi edwin,

First off thanks for all your great work on this. You really have helped (unknowingly) a computer fool like me to get the most out of the game. Just a could of queries.

Firstly for multiplayer. I have the cd version of the game but in games ranger I can participate in games but cannot host. The gamesranger for app doesn't work for me, is there something else I need to download?

Secondly viz. The fourth age mod. It immediately ctd after the load up screen when I run it. i have downloaded loads of other mods and many of them have done this and only a couple of them (e.g the greek wars) worked. Is there something specific I need to do? I just unpack them and slot them into the rtw data file at present and away it goes?

Thanks for your time.

Diarmuid (colemadi)

[Edwin@Feral]

Hi edwin,

First off thanks for all your great work on this. You really have helped (unknowingly) a computer fool like me to get the most out of the game. Just a could of queries.

Firstly for multiplayer. I have the cd version of the game but in games ranger I can participate in games but cannot host. The gamesranger for app doesn't work for me, is there something else I need to download?

That is a port forwarding issue with your router and GameRanger. Let me try to explain.

A host (server) need to be contactable directly by the client players. Being a client only requires you to be able to send out messages to the server (and get reply messages). To be a host (server) you need to not only be able to get reply messages but also accept direct messages. If you are behind a home router these messages need to be forwarded to the right local machine.

For replies that easy as it has the sendersID on the packet but accepting direct messages no sender ID is listed so your modem does not know what Machine on your network to pass the messages onto. Port forwarding rules or more modern modems with automatic port forwarding have made this less likely to happen but depending on your setup and other machines on the network it can occur.

Forwarding port 16000 to your Mac using router settings will usually allow you to host. If you are interested here is some extra reading :)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port_triggering

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port_forwarding

Secondly viz. The fourth age mod. It immediately ctd after the load up screen when I run it. i have downloaded loads of other mods and many of them have done this and only a couple of them (e.g the greek wars) worked. Is there something specific I need to do? I just unpack them and slot them into the rtw data file at present and away it goes?

Thanks for your time.

Diarmuid (colemadi)

I ported Fourth Age mod and the hosted version on our mods area works perfectly in Rome 1.3. Remember Fourth Age is a Barbarian Invasion mod as I recall so make sure you Rome set to Barbarian Invasion mode before trying to play.

Edwin

[xiniria]

Hi Edwin,

First of all sorry for my bad english,

I own the MAS version of the game and I'd like to tell you that you and Feral did an amazing work on this game to make it playable on Mac.
I'd like to install EB so I followed your last instructions, installed EB in Rome Total War.app/Contents/Resources/Data/data/ and then I have to copy the application in the preferences folder, but I didn't understand if you mean the one that opens when I hit the "Open Preferences Folder" button (which is called "Rome Total War") or the one that is called "preferences" and which is inside the "Rome Total War" folder, or another folder. I tried to copy the app in the two folders but it didn't work in the two cases.
Thanks once again

[sabermammoth]

Greetings,
I'm running into a rather unusual problem when starting up the latest EB game. The game starts up normally and gets me to the main menu and allows me to click single player. But whenever I click on the EB campaign button (i.e. to send me to the faction selection screen) a notice pops up saying "Please select an option from the menu" Basically it seems like this button is not working as all the other buttons (custom battles, load saved game, etc...) work fine. Please help so I can get back to playing the wonder that is EB for Mac!!!
Best,
Nathaniel

[thirst]

Hi
I downloaded the installer but whenever I click on EB main campaign it says "please select an item from the list"
I have tried multiple things to get it fixed but it won't work
please help.

[sabermammoth]

Hi Edwin
First of all, I like to thank you so much for your support and CS that has allowed me to play EB on the mac in the past. Also, congrats on the successful release of Napoleon TW for mac. I was hoping that I might ask for a minute of your time to fix a EB mac issue that many people still seem to be having (based on my own experiences and several numerous posts in this thread). I am referring to my previous post where I mentioned that I was able to get the EB mod started but was unable to start a new campaign as the phrase "please select an item from the list" would pop up. I have looked through this entire thread and tried each and every solution to no avail (including reinstillation, replacing imperial_campaign files with barbarian_invasion) etc. . . I am running a digital download copy of the game downloaded from feral although I was having this problem with my CD copy as well. Please Help if you can!!!
Thanks!

[Edwin@Feral]

Are you using the new mod link from here?

I fixed that a while ago as I recall.

http://downloads.feralinteractive.com/mods/rome/

Edwin

[sabermammoth]

Oh alright! I'll reinstall and let you know what happens!
Thanks again!

[sabermammoth]

Hmm something still seems to be wrong...

[sabermammoth]

My RTW vanilla stopped working for a bit but I think I fixed it

[sabermammoth]

Hi Edwin,
Ok I figured out why the vanilla wasn't working, i still had -mod:EB in the advanced options but not EB mod installed. Woops! So I got the vanilla Rome Total War to work at version 1.3! The problem I am still encountering however is whenever I run the rome_mod_setup.command (downloaded from your link) or the rome total realism setup.command or even the EB setup command, I get this message
*******************************************
* Welcome to the Rome Mod Installer *
*********** 1.3.0 ***********
*******************************************

************************************************
** Checking Rome is installed in Applications **
************************************************

***********************************************
** Please upgrade to Rome v1.3 or later **
** This script only works with v1.3+ **
***********************************************

So basically although my RTW version is 1.3 (information obtained through right-clicking on RTW and clicking "get info" although when i go in the game, it does not show a version in the bottom corner, but in the options menu it shows "ver 1.6" in the upper right corner. Therefore, I have no clue what the problem is! I cannot initiate any of the mod installations since they claim that I haven't updated, but I cannot update because the game seems to think that my version is 1.3 already! Please help!
Let me know if you need any screenshots or my computer specifics and Any advice would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks!