No EB playing time

**Tellos Athenaios** · 01-08-2007, 01:48

Pity...

Perhaps if you posted all steps you took, one by one, someone, peraps even me, could help you out...?

If you don't know where to start:

Spoiler Alert, click show to read:

Perhaps, if you posted some screenshot's of the screen that pops up when you run the shortcut? (If you don't know how to make such a screenshot: press the 'Prnt Scrn' key and open some picture editing programme, (photo editor, paint, whatever), and 'paste'...) Always do this when you get an error report, it allows you 'acces' to the error later on.

**Boyar Son** · 01-08-2007, 02:59

Right, right... I pressed print screen but i dont know if anything happened... and um.. I deleted paint but ican describe alot of what happened (from hours of trying) i'll work on that and does adobe work? now to what happened.

the EB icon (decietly named 0.8 and not dissapointment and sorrow) was there, I put the cd in and clicked on the icon( also the RTW vanilla icon was their too but didnt click on it) that square RTW vanilla screen poped up I did not click on that only the EB icon. so the screen showed those logos and that RTW trailer. Then a greek phalanx picture was in the background while it loaded. the phalanx picture was still there (I entered several times and it would switch to the battle thing) I clicked on prologue, imperial campaign, just about everything. when I clicked on the options it said it was ver. 1.5 and thats when the tantrum I had was at its peak.

In short, everything was vanilla. The load, background, screen, EVERYTHING . Its as if I never installed it.
EDIT: yes it gave the install success.
What is the EB screen supposed to look like? I almost had it one time before 0.8 came out and almost made it if it wasnt for a load bug.

**Tellos Athenaios** · 01-08-2007, 22:34

Perhaps, dunno, but it's always worth testing: if you tried to run EB after you have closed the Vanilla thing you mentioned? So, put the cd disc in the drive, wait till it pops up, close it, and then double click the EB shortcut on your desktop.

**Boyar Son** · 01-08-2007, 22:45

Ok, i'll do that. And also I think this is more than mere download problems. It is impossible to think that my computer (dell) refuses to run EB. I must be getting closer to it since I finnaly got the EB icon instead of some window icon. Did I mention I the last time I installed EB I did not reinstall the RTW game? still fresh though. I only clicked into menu's and imperial campaign.

EDIT: I tried what you said Tellos and it did not work... what if I reinstalled it? I saw one time when I pressed save instead of run when I downloaded this I saw an EB install thing. maybe that would work or reinstall both EB and RTW....and I tried to access EB through start and it said

"problem with shortcut" furthermore"the item 'RomeTW.exe' that this shortcut refers to has changed or moved, so this shortcut will no longer work properly.

"nearest match based on size, date, and type: C:\program files\ the creative assembly\Rome...\ RomeTW.exe"
then it just told me if I want to fix it so it point to this target or just delet it and I already tried the fix it option.

**Birka Viking** · 01-08-2007, 23:20

I wonder if EB team can fix so the patch 0.81 works like when I installed 0.74?? Becouse I also had some problems before I could play 0.80. Becouse the patch for 0.74 was much more newbie friendly, that one was only to open and play lol. Thanks

**Boyar Son** · 01-09-2007, 00:29

Also, that repair thing that shows along with remove and install, it says it fixes shortcuts and I think I narrowed the problem down to that (shortcut). I ran that and it still hasn't fixed my problem.

do any of you guys out there know how to fix shortcuts?

the computer says there is a missing shortcut when clearly I downloaded it and the icon is there.

**Tellos Athenaios** · 01-09-2007, 00:37

Originally Posted by K COSSACK

EDIT: I tried what you said Tellos and it did not work... what if I reinstalled it? I saw one time when I pressed save instead of run when I downloaded this I saw an EB install thing. maybe that would work or reinstall both EB and RTW....and I tried to access EB through start and it said

Ah, this may very well explain everything: you need to save the download first; and then run it. If you try otherwise, you're merely trying to run something that doesn't exist (yet).

So: save your download, when it's done, run your download by double clicking it (a box will pop up) and confirm that you're going to run it, follow the instructions you're given by the installer... And perhaps, who knows (most likely), you will be able to play EB...

**Boyar Son** · 01-09-2007, 00:42

Um, run it? I saved it but to get that running thing i would need to install it all over again (just to get the RUN button). Unless there was another way to get there i.e somewhere in the start menu? I need help on that.

I clicked on the icon again STILL it says missing shortcut...and by EB install I'm correcting myself, it says EB setup

EDIT: nevermind l I think I know where your getting at. And why do I get a modify, repair, or remove option? doesn't that mean I already have it installed? Btw I think I have a solution uninstall,reinstall, press RUN instead of save and wait till it installs!