EB start problem

[theboyne]

NOTE - I said problem, not bug.

I've installed it and it starts ok - up to a point.

I get to the "single player, multi-player, etc screen and all I get is an option for the prologue scenario at the beginning of RTW.

I click on it expecting to have to play it but then I get a popup telling me to click on an option.

Any ideas?

[MarcusAureliusAntoninus]

There is no prologue in EB.
Are you saying that the prologue is the only option? There is no campaign, historic battles, custom battles, etc selections?

[bovi]

Are you sure you're using the EB shortcut that was created on the desktop?

[theboyne]

What Icon?

It tooks what felt like hours to load this time, while taking literally seconds previously.

After either occurence it said installation complete.

No icons, some different graphics in the pre-game screen, an inability to start a game.

All in all, confusing.

I've uninstalled and reinstalled RTW and EB half a dozen times and I'm losing patience.

I'm going to give up soon even though I love RTW and most of the mods.

[bovi]

I can't remember what the shortcut is called, if that's what you mean by "which icon". I think there's a Play shortcut and a FAQ shortcut, You want the Play one. It's NOT placed in your RTW directory but on your desktop.

Increased loading time in EB is normal, especially if you have little memory.

Are you sure you've installed over a clean 1.5 RTW installation? And that you are not running BI?

[theboyne]

I think I may have spotted the problem.

As far as I know, my copy of RTW is 1.0 (I bought it when it was very new).

Do I have to update to 1.2 then 1.3 then 1.5

OR

can I update to 1.3 then 1.5 missing out 1.2 completely

My reason for asking is that 1.3 won't update properly if 1.2 is installed thus 1.5 won't update properly.

I suspect I may just give up and play solitaire.

[d'Arthez]

Patch RTW to 1.3
Then to 1.5
And then install EB.

That should take care of the issue.

[bovi]

When you DO have a 1.5 vanilla installation, make sure to make a backup copy of the whole of it so you have it in case something goes awry, or you want to try another mod etc. I always keep a clean vanilla 1.2, 1.5 and BI 1.6 on my disk.