Vista problem..

[M to the A]

On my pc, I think I had to press the % button, cant really remember though. Never hurts to try

[clibanarii immortal]

I'm also using vista and it seems there are 2 problems:
1: ~ doesn't work to open romeshell (lol I used to play all my total war games with cheats, but playing without them seems better)
2: and I can't take screenshots

[Tellos Athenaios]

1: With my desktop it works alright. Do you happen to have an AZERTY layout? (Typically French/Belgian.) In that case M to the A just gave your solution, apparently.
2: That's got nothing to do with Vista and everything with AA (Anti Aliasing) settings. RTW can't export TGA screenshots when AA is turned on, unless you run in windowed mode (and even then it has a habit of failing...). To run in windowed mode you have to edit your EB shortcut to include this parameter:

-ne

The size of your 'RomeTW-Window' will then be determined by the resolution you use (editable in the Options menu).

[clibanarii immortal]

1. no, my keyboard is using the QWERTY layout
2. oh I see, thanks for the tip

[Bouketsu]

Well, I appreciate all the assistance people have been trying to offer, but I'm still sadly unable to use the little tilde key.

I was thinking however, would the fact that I have a keyboard from an old XP model influence the behavior of it on a Vista programed computer?

I really am at a loss here because obviously the keyboard isn't broken. `/~
It has nothing to do with windows vista security settings because I've run it as administrator.
I've hit every key on my keyboard to see if just perhaps it was in an odd location. (This includes even the help hotkeys and sleep mode buttons lol)
It's not a corrupted file because I've re-installed the program about 4 times..
What else is there that could be the source of the problem?