Official "I got BI!" thread

[rebelscum]

Hehe, yeah and when you click on, I agree, do you really know what you are agreeing to.
You might be selling your whole family into lifelong slavery in a DVD factory in Sweden.

[Doug-Thompson]

The lack of any "readme" file was the most interesting thing to me. They seem pretty confident that there's no last-minute changes we need to know about.

There's also no province map, which makes life interesting. I'm going to remain a horde as the Huns until I've explored things thoroughly. There appears to be no hurry.

CORRECTION: GAH! There is a readme file. You open it from the main menu.

[King Ragnar]

Yay my copy has arrived this morning, installing now, looks like i wont be seeing daylight for a about a week :D

[SpencerH]

So (just for interests sake) where are american buyers picking this up at?

[Jochi Khan]

Got my copy this morning.

Like the idea of installing straight over RTW install and being able to play either, depending on which disc you have in your drive.

My problem: I have installed and each time I try to start the BI game I get a window with this message.....

The Application has failed to start because MSS32.DLL was not found. Try reinstalling etc

Have reinstalled twice and still the same message.

RTW starts up ok.

Can anyone help me with this please?

Edit: I have now copied the file from the original install so don't get this window now, but now get........ Failed to initialize 3D audio

Jochi

[Garvanko]

Got it today. Works fine. WRE looks a killer, but am gonna start with the Sassanids..

With RTW however.. I can't seem to play Dacia, Armenia any more (they were already unlocked).. just get a CTD. Any ideas?

[Terry]

"The Application has failed to start because MSS32.DLL was not found. Try reinstalling etc"

I saw this message a number of times too. After the third time of: uninstall rtw, reinstall rtw, install BI, doesn't work, uninstall rtw and BI, and do over, I got in.

Most annoying. By the third install, the time seemed to take forevvvver...

Terry


BTW, when I picked up the box at the store, it was so light I had to make sure I wasn't getting one of those empty boxes you see that advertise the soon to arrive game. No map?????

[Patricius]

I have it now and I will shortly install it. The manual is small enough, but the MTW features (in a modified form) like religion and civil war, which make a welcome return, are well described.

[gardibolt]

I was going to wait but I saw it on the shelf at Best Buy and couldn't resist. But I've got a Gallic campaign I want to finish first so I won't be installing it for a couple days.

But maybe I'll just break down and say phooey on the Gauls.

[Malcolm Big Head]

Got it. It is sitting next to me in a box begging me to take the afternoon off.

[Bwian]

It's Friday....
The Wife's going out with work-mates for someones birthday....
The kids are going to bed early ( they don't know it yet... )
And BI is on the HD

Yup... I have my very own copy in exchange for 1999 shiny new pennies

Right....off to play!

[Doug-Thompson]

So (just for interests sake) where are american buyers picking this up at?

Gamestop, but it was a pre-order.

[Taurus]

Got BI at 12:20 today Had to wait until 5pm to play it though

But having played a few custom battles and multiplayer battles, it is great

[Malcolm Big Head]

EB Games in KC

[Orda Khan]

Well sadly, I have been badly let down and so I do not have BI yet. It's great to read the posts, It looks like BI is receiving some good response. Tomorrow I will go out and buy it and my supplier can shove his order where the sun don't shine

......Orda

[Craterus]

I still don't got BI...

Hopefully, I'll get it tomorrow on my way back from Exeter.

[frybread]

I bought the game today and tried out some of the cheats. I seems the add_money 40000, create_unit, and process_cq cheats are unlimited in both BI and RTW.

[Craterus]

I got BI! Shame I can't play it for a while, 'cos of those annoying things called sisters and their selfish need for use of the computer.

[tibilicus]

I got BI on friday. Shame my big computer decides to break at the wors possible time!

[abortretryfail]

Got it Sun evening. So far I like it.
I wish I could just go to the store and buy EB that easily.