Quote Originally Posted by Themistocles
I am using RTW Gold Edition (which was mentioned in an earlier forum as being incompatible with your validation tool
Noone has reported this.

Quote Originally Posted by Themistocles
and I found similar results; when I ran the batch file the list of broke/missing files was huge...I don't know how helpful that will be)
Post it here and I can see what to make of it. Possibly I can even update the validator to cope with it.

Quote Originally Posted by Themistocles
I will post again after I give the whole thing another shot (hoo boy), but if you have any further advice or suggestions, or if there is anyone else who has experience with this [common?] problem please feel free to let me know. Again, your help is greatly appreciated.
My advice is to do the stuff mentioned in the checklist. It has helped many so far. Normally just one of them was needed.

X Install from scratch
_ Download a map.rwm file
_ Add -nm to the shortcut
X Delete some interfering files that Vista hides in its bowels
_ Install using 7-zip rather than installer
_ Run the validation tool
X Install the fixes linked in my sig