A guide to install EB, screenshots provided

[Matteo]

Look, Ludens, and what if I want to install EB with Barbarian Invasion installed into RTW folder? I found this -> https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showt...arian-Invasion, always on this forum. I have to use that?

[Ludens]

Look, Ludens, and what if I want to install EB with Barbarian Invasion installed into RTW folder? I found this -> https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showt...arian-Invasion, always on this forum. I have to use that?

No, that's a submod for EB: you don't need it. EB should work whether you have Barbarian Invasion (BI) installed or not.

(The submod you linked to is an adaptation of EB that uses the BI expansion rather than base R:TW. Some people prefer it because it has a few extra features and the computer is supposedly a bit smarter. But it doesn't make a big difference.)

Anyway, you wrote:

I tried to install EB into the main RTW folder, not the copy, and now it works.

So I thought you got EB working. Are you still having problems?

[Matteo]

No, read better, Ludens...

Edit: I tried to install EB into the main RTW folder, not the copy, and now it works.

... EB works now. But, you know, I read it's possible to create as many copies of RTW folder as the MODs which someone wants to use, leaving the original folder "untouched". Why can't I do the same?

[Ludens]

No, read better, Ludens...

... EB works now. But, you know, I read it's possible to create as many copies of RTW folder as the MODs which someone wants to use, leaving the original folder "untouched". Why can't I do the same?

I don't know. Maybe you installed EB in the wrong folder; maybe its due to Windows security settings; maybe it's something else. I can't tell that from here. But if EB works, you don't need to bother with the install validator.

[Matteo]

Yes, I got it about the validation, now that's not the problem. The problem is try to figure out why I can't run EB on copies of RTW folder.

I'll keep looking up for a solution, should I need help, I'll write here. Thanks, mod.

[Matteo]

OK, here's some tips, hoping they can help someone in the future.

1) At the beginning, I had two folders in C:\Program Files\Activision: Rome - Total War, the clean RTW folder with BI installed (so 1.5 version for RTW and 1.6 for BI) and his copy, renamed Europa Barbarorum, in which I had installed EB (that's why I had given it that name). But, if you read my previous posts, for some unknown reasons, I couldn't get working EB. So I removed it with Revo Uninstaller (it's a software for uninstalls in depth) and installed EB again, this time in the original folder. The MOD ran fine.

2) As I wasn't completely satisfied (I wanted to leave the original folder untouched, so I could use it to make a copy whenever I needed to try a new MOD), I removed EB again, RTW and BI included, because I had installed it on the main folder this time. So I reinstalled the game and the expansion then, updated them to 1.5 and 1.6 and created the usual copy as the first passage. Basically, I went back to the start (as the Coldplay's song, The Scientist ), the only difference was that this time I renamed the original folder (Rome - Total War) as RTW vanilla and the copy as the original (Rome - Total War). See the image below.



The whole thing worked, now I have EB running on the folder copy, and I can use the original folder to play RTW or BI vanilla or to make another copy for when I'll want to play a different MOD. I don't know, but guess the problem depended on the name folder, when I used "Europa Barbarorum" the MOD didn't work, when I used another name (in my case "Rome - Total War", but I think any other name goes well anyway) it worked.

If someone has better explanations, feel free to write.

[Ludens]

Thanks for letting us know.