Error on startup

[Foot]

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.

Foot

[MarcusAureliusAntoninus]

You installed .81 from scratch? You didn't have .80? And you didn't just install the patch did you?

[user999]

No, i downloaded the .81 full install, but before that, the same thing as this happened with the .80

[MarcusAureliusAntoninus]

Someone with the same error got this response:
https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showp...41&postcount=5
You said you had the "Activision" folder so in the EB installer you should have written this:

C:\Program Files\Activision\Rome - Total War\

Try unistalling .81 and reinstalling making sure that is the destination.