Victory Video Help

**Omanes Alexandrapolites** · 07-06-2007, 18:46

Hi CountMRVHS,
Sadly, this CTD is a frequent occurance in my game too - I think it may be related to taking the city of Rome. However, playing it again always, oddly, fixes it for me. If this tactic doesn't succeed, then, fortunately, you can easily watch the victory video outside of the game.

You can take this measure by simply entering your "C:\Program Files\The Creative Assembly\Rome - Total War\data\fmvs\win" folder, if you have Gold, or "C:\Program Files\Activision\Rome - Total War\data\fmvs\win" if you don't. Sadly, though, I may have got this path wrong since I haven't got R:TW installed to check it. Luckily, though, a quick Windows search for "fmvs" should yield the required results.

Once you are in the "win" folder, you can easily click on any video which you want to watch and see it's beauty. Hope this helps, enjoy the videos, cheers!

**CountMRVHS** · 07-07-2007, 02:05

Thanks very much for your advice -- I was able to find the videos and watch them in the folders. No sound, though... maybe a setting I need to adjust somewhere?

I still have that save, so I can go back and fight the battle myself, which I did after reading your post; but I didn't get any love the second time around either. Oh well; it's not like I was going to play on after that point anyway, and I did manage to get a kickass screenshot of my Parthian army in the streets of Rome, which now graces my desktop. I suppose in future campaigns I'll have to remember to try to grab Rome *before* the very end.

CountMRVHS

**Omanes Alexandrapolites** · 07-07-2007, 08:15

Originally Posted by CountMRVHS

Thanks very much for your advice -- I was able to find the videos and watch them in the folders. No sound, though... maybe a setting I need to adjust somewhere?

Don't worry, you don't have to change any settings. The videos themselves, oddly, don't have any sound - I believe that the sound you hear on the victory screen, and all other in game video screens, is simply background music.

**Shieldmaiden** · 07-07-2007, 12:08

Have you tried updating Windows Media Player?

I can't find the Thread and am a bit limited for time to look, but I'm certain I've heard of Rome FMV - particularly the sound - problems caused by that.

**Third spearman from the left** · 07-09-2007, 14:12

I'm interested to see if there might be a way round your problem. If you can send me a copy of your save game I'd try running it on my system to see what happens.

**CountMRVHS** · 07-09-2007, 16:19

How do I do that again? I've done PBEMs before so I know I should know this... But yeah, that would be helpful.

I just took Rome in my short Greek campaign; I think it was city # 12. No crash, no problem. Although another difference was in this Greek campaign, the Senate still held Capua (they'd bribed it from me several turns before) -- so the Senate faction was not destroyed when I took Rome. And taking Rome this time didn't prompt a victory video. So I wonder if it's just a result of taking Rome as your final city.

**Omanes Alexandrapolites** · 07-09-2007, 17:11

Hi again CountMRVHS,
To upload your save to the internet, you first need to find a hosting service. I prefer to use this one, but a quick search for

free file hosting should get you a list of many others.

If you have Gold, select the browse button and navigate to "C:\Program Files\The Creative Assembly\Rome - Total War\saves". Simply locate the save you want and upload it to the host straight away. After the process is completed, copy and paste the link provided into a .Org post.

If you don't have Gold, select the browse button, but this time navigate to "C:\Program Files\Activision\Rome - Total War\saves". Locate the save you want and upload it to the selcted host. Then just copy and paste the link into a .Org post.

Hope this helps you, cheers!