A guide to install EB, screenshots provided

[Blood_Of_Cu_Chulainn]

Ok i did everything step by step, install a fresh RTW GOLD File, download the EB program, installed it in a copied vanilla folder of RTW GOLD(v1.5) after all that i start to load the game up, i see the copy right and trade mark display screen come up and it does nothing, im sitting here for 20 minutes to an hour waiting for this game to start but its still on that screen, am i missing something here or what, i have no problem playing RTW and BI, even the new MTW, but the EB game wont start, i been wracking my mind about it the last 3 days,

[bovi]

A couple of suggestions off the bat: Perhaps you are not using the EB shortcut, but the regular RTW exe or shortcut? In the task manager, does RomeTW.exe spend a lot of CPU or is it just sitting there? If you install FileMon you can see more detailed the activities of the game starting up and see where it stops.

A moderator may perhaps make a new thread out of this.

[Blood_Of_Cu_Chulainn]

well the shortcut works it will load the intro screen of EB but it wont do anything,

[bovi]

In the task manager, does RomeTW.exe spend a lot of CPU or is it just sitting there? If you install FileMon you can see more detailed the activities of the game starting up and see where it stops.

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[Blood_Of_Cu_Chulainn]

i got it to work, i tried installing the temp fixes, restart the computer and everything ....load EB up and it took me to the game menu, so i played a game or two to make sure there its running correctly, so far so good, this mod is more interesting than RTR, but then again all total war games Own

thanks for the help though,

[A Very Super Market]

Is that a typo? It should be show_error

[bovi]

I updated the main post with a bunch of stuff that was not relevant any more, seeing as 1.0 is no longer used. Tellos, perhaps you'd be able to update the screenshots at some point?

[Tellos Athenaios]

When I get round to actually using the 1.2 installer. That's the problem with pulling from SVN. :shrugs:

[bovi]

Yeah, there is that.

[alcibiades1]

Hey, this is probably a dumb question but i'm not too computer-savvy and I need some help. So I've tried to install this mod a few times and after I do, whenever I click on the newly formed EB.10 icon, a box shows up with a flashlight and tells me that it cannot find RomeTW.exe. Then if I browse and and click on the Rome TW icon that is in this folder, Rome TW just overwrites EB or something, and it launches regular Rome TW. I'm guessing that this is because i'm not installing the game into the correct folder. I've tried a number of different times in different folders, and have read the insructions on this forum, but I'm terrible with computers and just don't understand. Can someone give me easy-to-follow instructions for creating an appropriate folder and intalling EB into it, so I can finally play this game? Thanks.

[bovi]

Look at the two previous guys who asked in this thread. What were they told to do?

[Tellos Athenaios]

Shall we make a bit of statistics of FA Install Q ? I mean, yeah here we go again:

it can't find your RTW => it is installed to the wrong location. There hasn't been a single exception to this rule in all of this thread - and all of this forum too. Perhaps we should call that the Law of Location.

[pavillon]

Hi..

this is my first post in the forum. I have been playing EB v.082 for three months now and very much enjoying it. Everything went fine until tonight I checked this forum and it says that a newer EB v 1.0 is already out (yeah I know... I am very late to aware that... couldnt believe how I let that happened

So I now Im ready to install EB v 1.0. Already downloaded it, took me 4 hours but I guess it'll worth

My question is: Since I installed EB v 0.82 in a copied folder of vanilla RTW (Gold Edition, patched to 1.5), can I just do the following steps in order to install EB v 1.0?

1. Uninstall current EB v.0.82

2. Delete whole copied folder of vanilla RTW which previously contained EB 0.82 (FYI I named that folder C:\Program Files\The Creative Assembly\Rome - EB)

3. Make a copy of the original folder of vanilla RTW again (I never do anything to the original RTW installation folder - it is absolutely a clean installation), this time it will be named C:\Program Files\The Creative Assembly\Rome - EBv10

4. Instal EB v 1.0 to that newly copied folder (i.e C:\Program Files\The Creative Assembly\Rome - EBv10)

Basically that is 4 steps that Im planning to do? So I will not unistall RTW and then reinstall it again, just unistall current EB v 082, make another copy of clean vanilla RTW from the original RTW that I still keep, and then install EB v 1.0 to that copied folder. Could somebody help me to know whether that plan would work or not, especially the part that I do not want to unistall and reinstall vanilla RTW again?

BTW, I am still in step 1 now. I am uninstalling EB v 082 from the Control Panel, and it has almost been 45 minutes until now and it is still "Gathering required information" (there is a progress bar but is is very slow, I am using Vista btw...) Is that normal, the unistallation process takes so long?

Thanks a lot, hope someone would respond to my questions; and very sorry for my bad English, I hope you could understand it though...

[bovi]

Your procedure should work fine. I don't know why the uninstallation takes so long though. Are you sure you're not running out of harddisk space on any of your disks?

[I Am Herenow]

Edit: as you wish

[Tellos Athenaios]

I'd feel almost inclined to leave that as is, see if anyone comes to ask for help about "but how then do I play 1.0?" . Ah well. See if anyone notices...

[bovi]

Step 6: After installing EB
Wow, you and your PC made it through! Now you can choose what you'll do next. You can read the readme file (recommended)

Perhaps this is a good place to remind people to start the background script, as those who need this guide are likely the same ones who won't know about it.

Step 6: After installing EB
Wow, you and your PC made it through! Now you can choose what you'll do next. You can read the readme file (Recommended. Pay particular notice to the starting of the background script.)

[Tellos Athenaios]

Yeah... Some idea.

[Some Call Me...Tim]

I installed RTW gold correctly and EB correctly and I click on the EB icon, it loads, i wait...everytime after about 3-5 minutes it shuts down and sends me back to windows. Im dying to play this mod. Please help.

[bovi]

Please create your own help thread.

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[MarcusAureliusAntoninus]

Tellos, I've copied this thread over at the TWC technical forum, to help people there. Just to let you know.

[Tellos Athenaios]

Ok.

[Aulus]

I tried to find whether the info I need was already passed, but apparently I am the first one to get into this kind of difficulty. Here is my problem.

I recently bought Rome Total War just because I wanted to play Europa Barbarorum and not the original game itself, but in Italy, where I live, I found only RTW Gold (english version), bundled with Barbarian Invasion. The problem is that I cannot install only RTW because automatically Barbarian Invasion too is installed. In the readme file it is written that BI modifies and overwrites some of the files of RTW, so it is not possible to uninstall it because RTW would malfunction.

At this point I have four questions:

1. Can I install EB 1.1 on top of RTW INCLUDING the expansion Barbarian Invasion, or RTW+BI is to be considered a modded version so it is advisable not to install also EB 1.1?

2. If 1 is not possible, can I install the bundle, then uninstall BI and after that install EB 1.1? Meaning, will EB 1.1 further overwrite and modify the files affected by BI, so in the end everything gets OK and I can play?

3. If neither 1 nor 2 work, is there any way to get out of my fix?

4. Did I throw away the money I spent to buy RTW Gold?

Thanks for your kindness and attention

Aulus

[Tellos Athenaios]

It *should* work; but RTW Gold is a bit of a troublemaker for some. Just check everything is patched up properly.

[Aulus]

It *should* work; but RTW Gold is a bit of a troublemaker for some. Just check everything is patched up properly.

Thanks, Tellos. Are you suggesting I use solution 1, (installing EB on top of RTW+BI) or 2 (uninstalling BI and then installing EB) or both?

Thanks again

Aulus

[Tellos Athenaios]

I am not to familiar with BI/RTW Gold but my first thought would be to install it to <Your RomeTW folder> and run it from the usual RTW.exe. If you want BI though; I suggest you take a look around in the unofficial submods fora or browse the technical support threads -- the question 'how to run EB from BI' has been answered numerous times. And I guess it would work exactly the same regardless of whether you have bought RTW + BI as a Gold edition or as separate packs.

[nevenoe]

Hello people,

It's the third time I install EB 1.1, and it still doesn't work. I did everything properly, as very well explained up here.

It launches, loads, makes fine sounds and musics, but crashes without a word when I want to lauch a campain.

I appologize if there is an answer to this issue somewhere, I could not find it and I spent the last 4 hours fighting with this...

EDIT : it works fine in "windows mode", but I can't really play on a half screen...

[piratemonkey530]

I went to install EB and it said it didn't recommend putting it in program files so I canceled and went to move thr Rome: Total War file. Then I went to install it again and it never appeared on the desktop. Then I searched for the set up and found it but when I clicked on it it that it could not find the file location. Help?

[piratemonkey530]

nevermind. I just redownloaded it and it worked fine. This is the best mod ever.

[Boyar Son]

I'm part of why Tellos made a picture guide, what with my constant questions,failures