All New Purchases Of Rome total war or Medieval 2 CD's WILL Install via steam

[lionhard]

I can confirm 100% after getting back onto EB1 and losing my RTW BI CD, as i had 2 huge campaigns, which im hoping to throw up on youtube soon, my Seleucid campaign was on BI so i bought a whole new RTW Anthology CD set and when i started it up, i get no options to install without steam, i HAVE to install via steam! so where does that leave EB1? when everyone has lost their RTW CD's? luckily i managed to get BI alone and it was an old copy which wont install via steam so i got lucky....

If you purchase Medieval 2 in any form single or Kingdoms, it WILL install via steam. How shit is that? I cant believe it, im devastated because it makes things 10 times harder for me, iv only just got used to patching, installing and moving around mods and its took near 10 years!, im trying to install EB 2 via steam and iv got no idea what i need, people are saying i need all kinds of patches and downloads. Why cant things stay simple? FFS!


Edit Oh and if that didnt make it bad enough, a windows update came out last month "Windows Update KB3086255" which stops you from physically running any game cd which used safeplay, so basically every game pre 2012, so now you CANT EVEN RUN YOUR GOD DAMN CD's, youve got to go through hours of trouble like i just have trying to find out why my GOD DAMN cd's wont work. Cant actually believe iv finally fixed it, you have to uninstall the windows update! So if your running windows 7,8 or 10 you will have to uninstall Windows Update KB3086255. I mean seriously what a pain in the ass.