Couldnt get further than the loading screen

**Roma** · 01-02-2007, 18:20

Right. Since my last post, i have removed EBv.08 and re-downloaded it. All is good, and i put it in the Creative Assembly Folder, the bit in which my v1.5 RTW resides. Anyway, i click on the icon with my RTW disk in the drive, nd i get the typical loading screen. This is all well and good, but then that disappears, leaving me with just the normal desktop screen. I do the CTRL-ALT-DELETE thing, which usually tells me if anything is running. I know this is in itself working ,as when i run something like Microsoft Works then it shows up. Also, when i tried to get a screenshot for this post, an error message came up saying something about an error in the scripts over building. Is this because i was on the internet at the time? Might be a stupid question, but im not really that great at RTW scripts. Have i a corrupted download?

**Roma** · 01-02-2007, 18:41

Alright, i found the supposed error:

Script Error in eb/data/export_descr_buildings.txt. at line 27230, column 146

Unexpected

And thats not me saying unexpected, that was actually on the error message. When i looked on this address, i did notice something odd. Among a load of building descriptions with the original RTW factions, like the Julii or the Parthians, there was the Saba, which i know to be on EB. I have my suspicions that the download was corrupt. Am i right?

**MSB** · 01-02-2007, 18:44

Check you have RTW patched to 1.5.

**Tellos Athenaios** · 01-04-2007, 00:17

@ Avlvs: apparently he did.
@ Roma, yeah looks like some corrupted download. But, having had similair trouble with installing EB 0.7.4, I recommend you try something else first:
1) Get a clean RTW 1.0 install (that's from the Disc)
2) Create a back up (for safety, and future convenience)
3) Patch it to 1.2 (here's what went wrong during my install of 0.7.4: the patch was somehow mucked up)
4) Patch it to 1.3
5) Patch it to 1.5
6) Make a back up (for safety and future convenience again)
7) Install EB 0.8

Just for 'safety', make sure all the files you use are uncompressed, and unzipped.

Should you, for whatever reason, be unable to play EB after step 7, you can now try and fiddle with different downloads & combinations. And that's where the back ups come in really handy...

Also: make sure you point the EB installer to you RTW folder, and not your ...\Data folder.

**Bonny** · 01-04-2007, 00:24

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Patch it to 1.2 (here's what went wrong during my install of 0.7.4: the patch was somehow mucked up)

Patch 1.2 is not needed any more. You can skip that step and install 1.3 on 1.0

**Dol Guldur** · 01-04-2007, 12:16

Why the successive patches? The CA patches are cumulative. I have installed RTW/BI many times and never used anything but the CDs and the 1.6 patch. (and the RTW latest patch before buying BI).