Seems you understood that I was talking about the shortcut in the end . Your folder structure doesn't seem to be an RTW installation, but it should be alright as the validation was successful.

* Please try to delete all map.rwm files, including the ones in the vanilla structure. There are likely three of them.

* Please try to move your RTW with EB into a structure without any spaces, such as C:\EB10 (so that you have C:\EB10\RomeTW.exe and C:\EB10\EB etc). You will have to change your shortcut to run from this location.


If nothing else works, the only thing left I can think if is pretty technical... Let me know which parts of this that are incomprehensible, as I'm sure it's not easy to understand for a computer illiterate.

Try to have FileMon monitor your RTW directory as you run the game. You can download FileMon here (it's safe, I promise). Remember to limit its scope to only the RTW directory and its subfolders with Options=>Filter/Highlight. Save the log, zip it and upload to a file hosting service like rapidshare.com, then post the link here so I can see what is happening at the point where it stops.