Playable via Steam?

[mk56]

Hello all,

I bought Rome: Total War Gold through Steam (the direct download service run by Valve). Anyway, the game is downloaded through the Steam client, so I don't have cds or anything. Is it possible to run this conversion while playing the game through Steam? I searched around here looking but didn't see anything, apologies if this is a common question.

Thanks!

[Tellos Athenaios]

If the game works without any mods installed, it should still work with them installed ... I guess.

Sorry, but AFAIK you're the first to appear with a legal version that doesn't involve CD's; so you are the one where the knowledge will have to come from.

[Teleklos Archelaou]

Since we don't alter the .exe, and since the whole mod is in a subfolder, I would think that it would be able to run, but as the other TA said, we don't know for sure yet.

[Ayce]

If a mod will work with a cracked version (which it does), it will work with a Steam version too.

[mk56]

Thanks for the replies all I will give it a shot. It's in a special Steam folder but I will play around with it a bit.

I certainly deserve to be able to use mods after all, having paid for the game!

[mk56]

Well, I just ran the install program for EB. It installed fine, but when I try to run EB I get an Application Error "Failed to find Steam." Regular RTW still runs fine though.

So I guess Steam is messing something up here.

[vartan]

If a mod will work with a cracked version (which it does), it will work with a Steam version too.

Isn't that illegal?

[Skullheadhq]

Isn't that illegal?

Yeah that is illegal, except if you've bought the game and hate to put the cd's in or it is better for CPU.
Pirated=Illegal
Bought=Legal