Couldnt get further than the loading screen

[Tellos Athenaios]

@ 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]

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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]

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).

[Roma]

Alright guys, i have a couple of questions/statements, that may sound a tad stupid, i just dont know;

1) We have two computers in the house, one upstairs (my laptop), and the one downstairs which i have downloaded EB onto. On the PC upstairs, i have RTW and BI. Does this mean that the RTW i have installed downstairs with the same disk has been also modified with BI?

2)OK. Assuming that it has been modified and i have a clean 1.0, how do i create backups? I am not very good at all this programming stuff, and in your list of things to do, creating backups seems well nigh essential.

3)How do i get all of the necessary stuff uncompressed and unzipped?

Oh and thanks for all the help. Its very much appreciated!

[Tellos Athenaios]

If you haven't installed BI downstairs, regardless of whatever is installed upstairs: you don't have BI downstairs.

A back up really isn't anything different from a copy. So the only thing you'd need to do is right click your RTW folder, select copy, paste it somewhere else... and wait till your computer is finished.

To unzip: go to the apropiate Winzip Archive, select the installer and press extract: this will bring up a screen in which you can select a target folder (the folder where the data will be extracted to).

To get your files decompressed: right click the folder which contains all the content that needs to be decompressed, go to properties, go to the 'advanced button', and there you'll see the 'Compress contents to save disk space' box. If this has been selected, then deselect it. It's standard though to have all data uncompressed (so if you haven't been messing around to save disk space, you won't need to worry about this).

[Pode]

What I did that worked for me, was to install RTW off the disc, then install BI from disc, then apply patch 1.6, then install EB. I changed the EB shortcut to use RTW-BI.exe instead of RTW.exe and was off to the races. By using the BI exe, I'm getting AI naval invasions that other folks don't seem to see much of, so I would recommend that highly since you own BI.
Word of warning, though. After doing this, my regular RTW.exe launches Civ 4 Warlords. Not the shortcut pointing to the wrong program, the actual RTW program itself fires up Civ 4 I'm not overly concerned, because Civ 4 still starts itself normally, and after EB I can't imagine EVER wanting to play vanilla again, but your mileage may vary.

[Roma]

ok, i've re-installed RTW. Does it matter that every time i go on the Imperial Campaign RTW turns off? Should i just continue and install BI, and then 1.6?
I have a feeling that its mucked up because of modifications made by RTR. I read that it does, when un-installed, leave something in the directory that needs to be deleted. But since that was so long ago, does it matter? If it does, what do i need to delete? Or am i wrong, and nothing needs to be deleted?