Buggy Installation for v1.0

**Naughteous Maximus** · 10-20-2007, 01:00

I had no problems at all downloading or playing v.81av2, but with v 1.0, its been nothing but a pain. Before I installed v1.0, I deleted everything from the earlier version including R:TW itself. I completely did a complete reinstallation of R:TW with 1.3 and 1.5 patches. I then downloaded v1.0 from Filefront. I followed the instuctions and I also rebooted the computer after installation. When I launched a game, the EB intro screen came on but after 2-3 minutes, the screen would go black, the music from R:TW would start for a moment then stop. The EB music would kick in while screen remained black.
After 4-5 minutes, the loading bar would appear and when loaded, the EB settings (options) screen would appear with nation icons / world map from following screen kinda of merged some what together and the screen would be flashing/stuttering. I tried setting my options to the lowest settings, thinking it my help, but nothing changed. I continued on into starting a campaign to see if the rest of the game was impaired, and had a ctd. I've uninstalled everything and started over, but the same thing happened again. I used a bug eliminator program, but that didn't fix anything.

**Tellos Athenaios** · 10-20-2007, 01:04

Try opnening the properties screen of the EB shortcut on your desktop (right click it; click properties) and add -nm to the target line. See if that works.

**Naughteous Maximus** · 10-20-2007, 02:26

Thanks for the quick reply Tellos. I did what you said and was suprised that it worked until I actually tried to get into a game, then I had a ctd. This is what my target line looked like.

"C:\Program Files\Activision\Rome - EB\RomeTW.exe" -mod:eb -show_err -nm"

Can I ask what "-nm" did and why is stopped the video stuttering?

**Tellos Athenaios** · 10-20-2007, 03:33

Well -nm is a short for "no movie"; so you'll guess what that did to the "video stuttering"...

**bovi** · 10-20-2007, 08:38

Some ways that other people have overcome installation problems:

*install from scratch (you did this, didn't work)
*download a map.rwm file (search the forum, you'll find it)
*delete some interfering files that Vista hides in its bowels
*Install using 7-zip rather than installer

You can also run the EB installation validation to see what is different in your installation, and use FileMon to see what it is doing at the moment of crash.

**Naughteous Maximus** · 10-21-2007, 18:19

I am using Windows XP, not Vista

I deleted the map.rwm file, didn't stop CTD. I even installed a new map.rwm file that was mentioned in your CTD solutions; that didn't help either. I can get into the start-up windows but when after I choose my country I start a game, I get a CTD still.

**bovi** · 10-21-2007, 18:44

So that means you've done

X Install from scratch (didn't work)
X Download a map.rwm file (didn't work)
X Add -nm to the shortcut (helped, but didn't work anyway)
_ Delete some interfering files that Vista hides in its bowels
_ Install using 7-zip rather than installer
_ Run the validation tool
_ Install the fixes linked in my sig

Correct? Please try the other ways.

**Naughteous Maximus** · 10-21-2007, 22:19

Ok, I have windows XP so I don't think I have to worry about Vista.
I've downloaded 7-zip but don't know how it works.( Yes, I tried to figure out how it works but I suffer from bouts of computer illiteracy) I also downloaded Procmon and followed the instuctions and pictures shown. I would get procmon going then start EB, once EB got to the "Choose nation" screen and I chose a nation, I got kicked out but no longer to desktop. Once I got kicked out, my computer started rebooting. Twice I ran procman and then EB and twice I ended up rebooting. You guys must have completely redesigned the game to have so many bugs and CTD's.