Rome: Total Realism and Europa Barbarorum?

**Rocky** · 04-24-2006, 23:51

Is it possible to have both of these mods installed on my computer at the same time? Do I have to delete RTR before I can install EB? Thanks!

**Justiciar** · 04-25-2006, 00:24

No, you can't have them both unless you install R:TW twice into seperate directories.

**Dayve** · 04-25-2006, 01:00

It's simple.

- Install RTW.

- Patch RTW to 1.2

-Go to (default) My computer > Local Disc(c) > Program Files > Activision.

- Inside the Activision folder, right click on the Rome: Total War folder and click 'Copy'.

- Right click on an empty space on your desktop and click paste.

- Wait 5 or so minutes for it to copy.

Now you have 2 versions of RTW on your computer. One on your desktop and one in the Activision folder in program files. Install EB to one of them, make ANOTHER copy, so that you have 2 on your desktop, and install RTR to one of those. Keep one free so that you can make copies of it and install future builds of RTR and EB without having to re-install the game again.

**Rocky** · 04-25-2006, 01:19

Thanks much!

**Kull** · 04-25-2006, 03:16

Originally Posted by Dayve

Keep one free so that you can make copies of it and install future builds of RTR and EB without having to re-install the game again.

Very good advice. Be sure that you add EB and RTR to the copies, NOT the original. The reason being that you'll want to upgrade it to 1.5 in order to support future versions of EB and RTR. (The patches are very picky, and won't let you choose which "version" of RTW to upgrade.)

**hoom** · 04-25-2006, 07:07

I have a lot of HDD space so I have vanilla RTW 1.2 & BI directories plus EB & RTR directories.
Generally best to keep the additional copies more or less in the same place for simplicity.
Make shortcuts to the .exe in each directory, name appropriately & drag onto the start menu for easy access.

**Avicenna** · 04-25-2006, 07:48

Originally Posted by Kull

Very good advice. Be sure that you add EB and RTR to the copies, NOT the original. The reason being that you'll want to upgrade it to 1.5 in order to support future versions of EB and RTR. (The patches are very picky, and won't let you choose which "version" of RTW to upgrade.)

You could always save the patch files instead of clicking install. By the way, for getting 1.5 can I just install BI?

**abou** · 04-25-2006, 08:49

BI is v1.6.

**Ludens** · 04-25-2006, 14:23

Originally Posted by Tiberius

You could always save the patch files instead of clicking install.

I am not quite sure what you are saying. The R:TW patch will only install in the "official folder" (I assume this is either the folder called "Rome - Total War" or the first one you install the game in). There is no way that I know of to extract the files from the patch without using the installer. Therefore, and for other reasons, it is important that you keep the "official folder" clean, i.e. no mods. I actually have five copies of R:TW on my computer: 1.2, 1.3, 1.5 (official folder), Community Mod (dating from my aborted attempt at MP) and EB.

Originally Posted by Tiberius

By the way, for getting 1.5 can I just install BI?

No. To upgrade vanilla R:TW to 1.5 you either need to install the 1.5 patch or install BI and the 1.6 patch (which will upgrade vanilla R:TW to 1.5 as well). Or you can get the Gold version, which AFAIK comes patched already.