Implications of path length CTD discovery

[Kull]

I am a bit confused. My EB1 is installed under: C:\Games\Rome - Total War\EB which is clearly less than 127 characters.

However, let's say I try to access settlement underlays: C:\Games\Rome - Total War\EB\Data\settlement_plans\underlays. This is 56 characters, do extra characters (\Data\settlement_plans\underlays) beyond EB count? Seems like they do, just want to clarify.

Yes, it would be the full path.......

Also does the file the game is trying to access count as well? For instance: C:\Games\Rome - Total War\EB\Data\models_unit\TEXTURES\hellenistic\ebhellenistic_cavalry_hetairoi_kataphraktoi_romans_brut ii_stefan25.TGA is 138 characters, would that cause instability?

.......including the entire file name (with suffix).

To repeat my earlier caveat, we don't KNOW that this affects games outside of M2TW, although it seems (to me anyway) to be a plausible possibility.