I remember hearing on these forums that if you just change the resolution in the preferences.txt it will work. If you don't know it can be found in your main RTW folder. I forget what default is so E:\Total War\Rome - Total War for you it might be something like C:\Program Files\Activision\Rome - Total War I really forget what default is. Anyways just go into preferences.txt and where it says the resolution just change it to 1280x1024