Vista 64 Issues (possibly)

[McAds]

Alright there.

Basically this isn’t a problem with EB 1.0 as such, but the necessary instillations I need to make to be able to play the mod. I’ve recently bought a new PC which has a 64 bit Vista home thingy, the problem is after I’ve installed Rome Total War, I can’t play it as it comes up with this error message ‘Rome total war not found’. I installed the two patches (1.3 and 1.5) before installing EB 1.0 and I assumed it was a problem with EB, however, after uninstalling an re-installing RTW vanilla, I found I couldn’t play the even the vanilla version of the game at all. Is there a patch that allows me to play it on Vista so I can install these over patches and finally play EB?

Cheers for any help anybody can provide.

[Tellos Athenaios]

Rome TW not found? => Bad install. => Try again, it's the best you can do.

[McAds]

I have done fella, a good four times now and I get the same response. I can’t se it being the disks either, as it lets me install it, it just doesn’t let me open it up.

[bovi]

There is a list of things you can do to try to get a faulty installation to work in the thread called EB installation validation.

[McAds]

I’ve looked at your list and the one that seems appropriate is ‘Delete some interfering files that Vista hides in its bowels’. I am a layman when it comes to specific technical things and I really have no idea which files would be interfering with what.

Also I must stress that the problem I’ve got is that I can’t play RTW vanilla, despite being apparently able to install it fine. I only noticed I couldn’t play RTW Vanilla after I’d uninstalled RTW and EB 1 (which installed fine with no problems), as the game would not load up.

I’m curious to know if others have had problems installing RTW on 64 bit Vista and how I can fix to be able to play Vanilla (so I can check to see if patches 1.3 & 1.5 have installed properly) in order for me to play EB.

So really, anybody with Vista (or maybe even Direct X 10.0) who’s had the same problem or anybody who is aware of problems like this- please help!

[McAds]

Finally could the problem be that I'm using the 3 disc RTW from October 2004? Would purchasing the 'White' label RTW make it compatible with Vista 64?

[bovi]

If you read more carefully it says where these bowels are. Some of the people with Vista problems have a ATI X700 or NVidia Geforce 6600, do you happen to have either of these as well?

I don't think the disc means much. My old 3-disc RTW bought a couple of days after release works fine. In fact the RTW Gold seems to carry more problems getting EB to work than patching up from 1.0 does.

[Tellos Athenaios]

Exactly. Also the fact that you have got "Rome Total War not found" issues really does hint at a faulty install.. (I mean: it specifically says that the program you just installed simply isn't there where you installed it to...)

You could give your discs another look: perhaps some of them are damaged?

[Theages]

Perhaps you could simply try to search for the RomeTW.exe file and double-click on it to try to start the game (helps only when the shortcut is faulty). Perhaps an UAC issue? Then you have to use "run as administrator". I have disabled UAC (not a recommended setting, but it certainly helps avoid UAC issues). I can run the program without any problem on my Vista x64.

[bovi]

Double-clicking RomeTW.exe will launch vanilla, not EB. But of course to get the vanilla working it could be an idea.

[McAds]

Thanks for all your help, but I sorted the problem.

I’ve got an 8800 Ultra graphics card, so it wasn’t a problem with the graphics card and it also turns out that it wasn‘t a problem with the discs, but thanks for shooting me some advice anyway.

I’ll state what I did, on the remote chance anybody else has a similar problem. Basically what I think I did was install EB to the wrong folder and it therefore didn’t load. I uninstalled RTW and EB, but I don’t believe everything was fully removed in the Activision folder and this may have stopped my subsequent fresh installs from working properly. What I did was create a new directory called “Rome” where I installed RTW Vanilla to, the patches and then EB. I should point out that I had to change the destination of my EB install to the “Rome” directory, so folks with Vista really pay attention to where your installing EB!

As I said cheers for your help guys!



(and the new map, particularly the water, looks amazing!)

[Tellos Athenaios]

^^

Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 

Rome TW not found? => Bad install. => Try again, it's the best you can do.

Anyhow: Enjoy your game now you've got it!