Update 2 Released!

[Andres]

Medieval 2 Total War encountered an unspecified error and will now exit.

Seems like several people encountered this problem. I've opened a thread for this in the Apothecary. Any help or advice can be posted here.

[FactionHeir]

Btw, I'm currently patching but noticed something strange:
It recognizes my M2TW version as 1.00.000 instead of 1.01. Telling it to patch anyway, but still...odd.

[RickooClan]

If the fix/feature list of official patch 1.2 the same with the leak patch?

[FactionHeir]

Didn't see one inside...

[Doug-Thompson]

Wow. The patch has been out for more than six hours and there are no "OMG, the new patch is HORRIBLE!" threads.

I'm enjoying this while it lasts.

Seriously, the first thing I'm going to do when I get home is attack some spear infantry with some peasants and see what happens. The second thing will be to attack some low-grade infantry with religious fanatics.

[FactionHeir]

Well lets see I just tried running it and get an unspecified error...

In addition, I tried unpacking a few files and to my surprise all files I unpack seem to be from version 1.1 or 1.0....

[Lusted]

Seems like your installer didn't run properly. If the installer doesn't take long, it hasn't worked properly. If the installer takes ages, it's installed properly

[FactionHeir]

It took ages unpacking everything into my C temp folder and then installing it to my D drive and annoyingly also installing stuff like net framework without prompting me

[Quickening]

Seems like your installer didn't run properly. If the installer doesn't take long, it hasn't worked properly. If the installer takes ages, it's installed properly

Yep. The leaked 1.2 took a good half hour to install. This one was done in about ten minutes.

[FactionHeir]

Yes, took me exactly 10-11 mins but still not working ...

[Midnight]

Well after something went wrong before at 89%, I finally got it downloaded and installed, and both took forever - I'll test it out tomorrow!

[Shahed]

Wow. The patch has been out for more than six hours and there are no "OMG, the new patch is HORRIBLE!" threads.

I'm enjoying this while it lasts.

Seriously, the first thing I'm going to do when I get home is attack some spear infantry with some peasants and see what happens. The second thing will be to attack some low-grade infantry with religious fanatics.

Let us know what your impressions are. I was really enjoying 2H units now I hope they are not over-weakened. It's not an issue though should'nt take too long to restat even if they are. I agree it's pretty quiet around here, better not jinx it.



I will have to wait a few days before I can test the patch.

[BigTex]

Gah and it's released the day after my day off GAAH, why CA why?

Place 69 out of 87 for a 650mb download. Gonna be awhile anyways .

[FactionHeir]

On second thought, it does look like the installer terminated somewhere without telling me. It was unpacking medieval2.exe and installing it and then installing net framework without prompting, then directx which suddenly terminated after a second or two and told me "go restart" which I did. Found an oddity that I now had another user on my comp (ASP.NET) which I promptly got rid of.
Then checking files, which are still 1.1 for some weird reason (note that M2TW patcher thought I have 1.0 ... I had 1.01 though) and now noticing that although I got the launcher, i still have an old exe and old other files.
Something seems really odd.

[edit]
Actually it did update my exe. It just reads created on nov 11 2006 and last modified 25.04.2007. But the version number as per windows seems to be 1.1

[Bob the Insane]

On second thought, it does look like the installer terminated somewhere without telling me. It was unpacking medieval2.exe and installing it and then installing net framework without prompting, then directx which suddenly terminated after a second or two and told me "go restart" which I did. Found an oddity that I now had another user on my comp (ASP.NET) which I promptly got rid of.
Then checking files, which are still 1.1 for some weird reason (note that M2TW patcher thought I have 1.0 ... I had 1.01 though) and now noticing that although I got the launcher, i still have an old exe and old other files.
Something seems really odd.

[edit]
Actually it did update my exe. It just reads created on nov 11 2006 and last modified 25.04.2007. But the version number as per windows seems to be 1.1

The game uses .NET and thus it installs it... If you have IIS installed then it will setup ASP.NET which includes creating a user called ASP.NET... This is normal .NET stuff, nothing special for CA or SEGA...

[gardibolt]

Wow. The patch has been out for more than six hours and there are no "OMG, the new patch is HORRIBLE!" threads.

Could be because a) some people can't get it to work at all; and b) those who can are still playing!

[FactionHeir]

Well, I just patched it over my "patched" install again.
Starting the patcher it took ages for it to unpack into my C drive temp folder and then told me I already have 1.02 installed and whether I want to install it anyway. Pressed yes, it did the same thing it did last time and in the end asked me to reboot. Didn't this time but unpacked a few files instead (traits, vegetation, skeleton) as I know those were changed from 1.1 to 1.2 and even after my 2nd patch they are still 1.1 (or maybe its because my unpacker is 1.1, but doubt its that).

Sooo I guess I get to uninstall and reinstall? Any other tips?

[Doug-Thompson]

Could be because a) some people can't get it to work at all; and b) those who can are still playing!

That never stopped anybody before.