Quote Originally Posted by user999
I installed the big eb .81 from scratch, oh, thanks for the welcome, Rome total war is in the Activision folder on my computer, however, even though i put this in the target, it didnt work, Eb is in another folder, cant quite remember which one, and when i set that as the target, the game begins to load when i click the eb icon, but then says; "generic error in data_descr_battle_map_lighting_and_fog_control.txt" and i have to quit.
Do you have a username with non-roman characters in it for XP? The EB installer cannot recognise them so it can't install properly. Best bet is to make a temporary adminstrative account with a username with only roman characters in it and then install EB using that login.

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