Quote Originally Posted by Syxx_Killer
I am getting to know RTW better and am thinking about getting the BI expansion. What I'm wondering is, does the expansion have any form of copy protection? I know RTW has the SafeDisc. Since Sega took over CA, will it have the Steam protection, another SafeDisc, or something else?

Also, I already have the patch 1.3 installed on my copy of RTW. Will the expansion overwrite the patch; need a clean, unpatched install of RTW; or will it detect the patch and not need to install it?
Copy protection shouldn't be an issue, so don't worry about it.

BI will overwrite the original RTW v1.3 files with identical versions of themselves during installation, as well as installing all the BI-specific files that you need. Unless you've modded your game in some way you won't notice any difference. You don't need to change your current RTW installation at all before patching, except to make back-ups of any modded files.