Quote Originally Posted by Intranetusa
And actually dude, I can't even play EB 1.0 on my Vista laptop because it keeps CTDing. I can only play it on my old laggy PC with XP.
And I already ran the validation/quick-par software like 4 times, and have been reinstalling RTW & EB for the last 4 days now on my vista pc...to no avail.
So yes, if you're trying to play on Vista, I will say EB 1.0 makes your game crash.




Why don't you try to installing and playing the game on windows Vista? I'm sure reinstalling the 5+ gigabytes of 'Rome Total War + EB' 30x over over again over the course of 4 days will change your mind.
If you had EB or RTW on your system before, you might need to make an extra step on Vista. Vista has 2 program folders (well actually 4 if you have 64bit). It has the main one found in c:\program files, but also a hidden one in the c:\users\(your username)\AppData\local\VirtualStore\program files. If you have 64-bit, the ones you want will have an (x86) after them. The ones in the virtual store will override anything in the primary one, and any changes made to the folder without administrative rights will go to the virtual store basically. So saved games or any files changed or created while EB or RTW is running. If you want to do a perfect fresh install, make sure that after uninstalling EB and RTW you delete the entire installation folders in both of the Program Files folders.

I ran into this problem when installing 1.0. I decided to do a fresh install and removed EB and RTW completely, plus the installation folders in c:\program files. But I forgot about the virtual store. When reinstalled RTW and EB I got a CTD when trying to run. I had to go back completely remove RTW and EB and then delete the files that remained in both the install folders. After that I reinstalled, bingo, no problems whatsoever.

Hope that helps.