Trobles installing everything

[eastemnet]

I first tried to install the v0.7.2 Open Beta last night, but that did not work and I only got what seemed to be a title screen that would crash to the descktop whenever I hit a key. So I began think, perhaps I should install the RTW 1.2 patch, so today I decided to unistall everything. I reenstall RTW and download the .exe file for the patch, but when I tried to open that file it said:

"This application has failed to start because MSSS32.DLL was not found. Re-installing the application may fix this problem"


What should I do? Uninstall Rome Total War again ( )? There has to be something I am doing wrong. Am I just doomed to play the origanal version of Rome for all eternity?









Edit: I unistalled everything, reenstalled Rome and downloaded the patch, but when I tried to open the .exe file, I got the same message. I decided to go ahead without the patch and installed both 7.2 and 7.4, but when I tried to start EB, it booted out quickly and mentioned something about an unknown data string or something like that. I am begining to give up on this.