Help-Reinstalling Patch 1.2

[the tokai]

modding isn't the problem. it's just something CA did to the patch. don't ask me why. there's a thread about this in the apothecary, you might want to check it out. there is a solution, although it is a rather complicated one.

let this be a warning to everyone: once you patched rome, never, ever, uninstall it. it really is a pain in the ass to reinstall it and get it running again. i've been busy for at least three hours and i still haven't managed to get rome running again.

[Quillan]

At a guess, I'd say patch 1.2 probably creates a registry entry (or more), those don't get removed with the uninstall of the game, so when you go to reapply, the patch engine reads them and thinks it's already there.

[Puzz3D]

And why should that prevent a person from reinstalling? I can't install RTW v1.0 to checkout the siege/savegame bug because the install won't let me.

[the tokai]

if you can't reinstall the game, you could try a system restore. see the things to do before installing rtw thread for more specific info.

[katank]

Thanks for the info and I will check out the apothecary.

Just to let you know, I'm not just some programmer wannabe. I've been programming for a very long time and been modding a while too. Just didn't have a complete backup due to lack of disc space and incremental roll backs weren't sufficient.

I already checked the registry and found nothing. I even used a file monitoring program but it mostly accesses files in the Document and Settings/username/Local Settings folder and there wasn't much there.

It truly is a pain and I'll post back about my progress.