How to install RTW twice?

[Monarch]

Hey,

I want to try out Rome Total Realism however I want to keep my version of barbarian invasion for multiplayer. So I thought I'd install twice, how do I do this?

[econ21]

Simply copy the whole RTW subdirectory (e.g. with Windows Explorer) and paste it. It worked for me.

But given that you have BI, you'll first need to uninstall RTW/BI completely and reinstall RTW only. RTR only works with 1.2, so start with a fresh install of RTW and patch to 1.2. Copy that and use the copy to install RTR on. With the original you can then install BI and patch to 1.6.

[Monarch]

Thanks it worked well. Now I'm just downloading the 1.2 patch for RTW, then RTR then the 1.6 patch for BI. Oh what fun :P

[Craterus]

On this topic, I've copied RTW twice and I've got Mundus Magnus installed on one of the copies. The other is regular 1.2; I want to install the latest patch (1.6?) so I can play multiplayer. If the patch installs on MM, then it won't work.

Can I choose where the patch installs? I want it on the vanilla 1.2 file.

[econ21]

Good question - I must have done this, as I have RTR, EB and BI simultaneously. I guess when the patch starts up it asks which directory RTW is in. Just choose the directory that has the vanilla 1.2 version in and not the MM version. I kept the default directory names for RTW and renamed the copies to be RTW-EB or whatever.

[Ciaran]

I´m not entirely sure whether or not the patch asks the install path, at least 1.3 does not, it installs to where the first installation of RTW is (e.g. C:/programs/games/RTW in my case). Therefore I keep that path for the vanilla version and used cpoies to install mods on them. Works fine.