New Patch

[Gregoshi]

Thanks easy. I'll check into my settings. I'm rather surprised CA would be patching a game 7-8 years old.

[easytarget]

Yeah, this has to be pretty unusual, I guess it was prompted by the gamespy shutdown which ended MP for the game. I never played MP in it so it was no great loss to me. But for whatever reason they decided to do something about it and thus ensued all the patchy business.

[Gregoshi]

I figured out my issue with the patches. I bought M2TW from Gamersgate. Instead of just sending the game key, they had a link to download the game, which I did, thinking this was how I had to get the game. Because of that, I had to attach the game to Steam as a non-Steam game, hence, no automatic patching. I uninstalled M2TW, did the "add game" with the game key and re-downloaded the game. Now I think I'm setup properly in Steam.

[easytarget]

Ah, cool that you figured it out! So, are you going to play a vanilla game next or install SS and play a round of that?

[Gregoshi]

I was thinking of playing SS. Just have to reinstall it. But the hardest part will be deciding on which faction to play.

[easytarget]

Tue enough, I've picked England again because I didn't finish the last one before all the patching business began. I'll have to get through my first run through on Divinity: Original Sin first though.

[easytarget]

Hmmm, tried to install EB2 and for my trouble MTW2 is now broken and won't run. Sheesh

I'm now getting the dreaded "Medieval II suffered a fatal error and will now exit." error when I attempt to start MTW2.

So far I have repeatedly verified cache and even deleted local content and went to the trouble of re downloading the entire game with no change.

Suggestions?