new but old

[sjmxru]

thanks oman for that....

sounds like i have unlocked all the factions i can without modding, i dont have gold but i will try the pasting route but i'm not sure what version i have (sat in work at the mo so cant check)

hope i can open up a few more factions, i thought i had to destroy a faction & complete in order to be able to play them, i guess it wasn't as simple as that when it didnt work there one time, but i wasnt playing the romans so i thought that was the prob

cheers again

[Omanes Alexandrapolites]

Hi again sjmxru,
May I ask if you have installed any patches? If not then you will either have 1.0, should you own standard R:TW, 1.3, should you own R:TW and BI yet not Gold or it will be 1.5 (R:TW) and 1.6 (BI) should you have Gold. It can work with 1.3, people have suceeded, yet it requires some extra modding to do so which is way beyond my humble knowlage. Hope this helps you, cheers!

[sjmxru]

as far as i know i have the standard rtw (bought it when it first come out havin played stw & mtw)

i've just downloaded patches 1.3 & 1.5 I'm told i need to load 1.3 b4 1.5 in order for it to work.

just to clarify i need to load both in order to unlock any extra, currently non-playable factions (i.e spanish) i take it? i just want to play a different faction for a change.

do i have to cut the patch in to the existing game?

cheers

[caravel]

Run the v1.3 patch first, then follow that with the v1.5 patch. AFAIK your old savegames will not be compatible, so your best bet is to clean them all out.

After this you can go through unlocking the locked and non playable factions. Frogbeastegg's guide in the RTW guides section describes how to do this in more detail.

https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showthread.php?t=38382

-Edit: You should notice a difference, with the v1.5 patch. v1.0 was very buggy, imbalanced and generally very poor indeed.

[sjmxru]

thanks caravel,

do i fire up my rtw then run the patches or do i run the patches & it'll seek out the rtw program?

sorry i haven't done any moddin b4, and i'm gettin older, and a dad, so i'm loosin touch with technology!!!!!

[caravel]

You have to exit RTW and then run the v1.3 patch. The patch should find your RTW install, and patch it when you click "next, next next, finish". I doubt you'd have installed to a different location than the default, though it's possible of course. Once v1.3 is installed you need to run v1.5 in the same way.

It's years since I've run the patches, I have done it a fair few times in the past (due to numerous reinstalls) but I now have RTW Gold which is already patched up to v1.5, so I don't need to now, and thus don't remember too many specifics of their installation.

[sjmxru]

thanks - i'll try it tonight if i get chance