Thanks for the reply i will give that a try. Does anyone know how to run EB through the orignal rome total war launcher instead of trivial scripts. I think thats the problem with windows 7 64bit users. EB has to be run through original rome launcher/shortcut instead of trivial scripts. it seems to become corrupted through running in trivial scripts. Also i think the target path needs to be edited for windows 7 64bit users. any help please on this will be much appreciated.