Hi Ignoramus, don't go away!

I was just replying to your request for help installing the mod by a PM, but it might be better to do it publicly as Factionheir and anyone else can chip in about installing the mod.

It seems to me that your game is not reading the modded files. That raises the question, have you ever successfully installed kotorfix? Because the modded files for the Staufen mini-mod should be read in exactly the same way as those for kotorfix. Please can you tell me - what is Arnold called when you load up a savegame? Is he the Saint or the Inspriring? If he is the Saint, then you have not successfully installed kotorfix. If he is in the Inspiring, then getting your game to read the modded files is not the problem.

To get the game to read modded files, what you need to do is run M2TW with the --io.file_first
switch.

There are two ways to do this:

(a) go to the M2TW shortcut on your desktop. Right click and choose properties. Then under target you should have something like:

"C:\Program Files\Sega\Medieval\medieval2.exe"

you need to edit it to become:

"C:\Program Files\Sega\Medieval\medieval2.exe --io.file_first"

Click apply and ok. Then next time you run the game, it should work from the modded files you have put in the subdirectories not the original unpacked files.

(b) Alternatively, you could use an editor such as Word to create a file called, say, "kotor.bat". In that file write:

"C:\Program Files\Sega\Medieval\medieval2.exe --io.file_first"

Save the file as text only (not Word format). Then if you make a shortcut to that file and paste it onto your desktop, clicking on that shortcut should get the game to boot up using the modded files.

This is from memory - I can't access M2TW at the moment.