Firstly, make sure you have a working install of Medieval II: Total War with the Kingdoms expansion. Also make sure none of your kingdoms expansions have been changed in any way(so if you run a mod by renaming say the Americas campaign you will have issues) Both Steam and retail versions work. If you have a pirated version or cracked version of the game, go and purchase medieval 2 with the kingdoms expansions.
Medieval 2 Total War Crack Exe File
Step 5: Open the 4GB Patch (you have the link to download the file below this own message, simply scroll down the installation video) and direct it to your medieval2.exe in your Medieval II: Total War folder. If it patches correctly it will create a backup file in the same folder. Do the same thing for kingdoms.exe. Make sure you run the program as administrator.(right click on the patch, properties, compatibility and at the bottom you will see "run this program as an administrator" If you get an error trying to launch the game, delete the .exe files and rename the backup files to medieval2.exe and kingdoms.exe, then try "Large Address Aware" instead. It's the same as the 4gb patch, but might not cause that error.
Advice: If you find old totalwar games give you poor fps for your system this might be why, go to your medieval2.exe and kingdoms.exe right click and go to properties/compatibility you will see a check box for "disable display scaling for high DPI settings" Make sure this is checked(or try it to see if you get an FPS gain) made a huge difference for me with ALL totalwar games.
can someone please help me? i'm a great fan of lord of the rings and the total war series, so this mod should be perfect for me, but when i open patch 1.2 i get a box saying: this file contains invalid data. halp pl0x. anyways great mod, it's almost better than the original game.
I gonna tell you Legolose,there's MANY problems in my game.I have medieval 2 total war patch 1.3.Have Kingdoms too in patch 1.5.I put the crack cuz i lost the cds,i play normally M2TW and M2TWK too.I download the game TATW,installed patch 1.1 and 1.3,i cant download patch1.2 so i think that i dont need it.In custom battle my forces cant pass 5 battalions or the game crashes.I can only play siege in fort.I cant play campaing cuz the game crashes,in siege the game always crash,it dont crash only when i click fort.Or i am the most no-lucky guy or this game just wasted my time.Can you resolve ALL these problems?
I'm going to restart the campaign. I think I know why everyone is still staying mixed. Nobody has attacked really except for me and the surrounding territories. Its an all out war in the Italian peninsula, so I think that is why. I'm going to restart as spain as see what happens. I just want to make sure it works. TWC recommended putting this[IO]file_first = trueinto the medieval2.preference.cfg to make the unpacked files "stick" could it be affecting anything?Thanks again!
taw: Reporting back again. I've figured out a likely reason why the game wasn't reading the file. I was browsing through internet forums and found out that supposedly the game is reading from the packed files by default, unless specifically instructed to read from the unpacked files. So, I followed these steps - I uninstalled the game and deleted all leftover files from both the folders (game folder in normal Program Files/SEGA and the folder in AppData/etc.). I installed the game again (just the original Medieval 2 without expansion) and installed both patches (1.01, 1.02). I also turned off User Account Control before I used the Unpacker so that the unpacked files would end up in the game folder and not in AppData/blablahblah/VirtualStore/etc. I used the Unpacker then. Seems the files unpacked fine. I deleted both of the geography files that are supposed to cause the game to crash. Then I replaced the faction standing file from the Data folder with your fixed one. Then I followed the instructions to tell the game to read from the unpacked files rather from the packed ones by opening the file from the game folder medieval2.preference.cfg in Notepad and adding a line "[io] file_first = true". Then I ran the game. ... Now, since I've done all those things, the game should be using your file. However, I tried it out (England - occupied definitely more than 6 times, no executing prisoners etc.) - reputation still at mixed (I don't know how to check the actual numerical value of the reputation so I can't really tell if "mixed" means it stayed at zero or if occupying had some effect, albeit not enough to get me to Reliable. Any clues? Do you think the game has the problem with your particular file or that it simply still reads all files from the packs instead of reading the unpacked ones? Is there a way to find out?
Lukas: It sounds like it's still reading from the packs.I've heard of this [io] file_first = true thing, but it works for me either with or without it.I'm not sure what else can be done. Maybe delete the packs, or try on another version of the game (like steam or cracked). It's all very weird.
taw: Yes, 1.03 (fully patched Medieval 2 without Kingdoms). I might have done some "mess-up-change" while tinkering with the files, so I will uninstall the whole thing and delete the game folder, reinstall Medieval 2, patch it to 1.03, crack it, then I will "install" your mod and see if I can run the battles. .. Btw, sorry for bothering you with all this and thanks a lot for all your help so far. :)
@Tawthx for your quick reply! what happens is this: i put your file in the data folder, and my game does an inmediate ctd. i followed all the steps in the total war unpacking thread. i also have done some tweaks myself. the game launches perfectly, in the past to, when i tried the darthmod. what i did (to clearify):unpacking 100%deleted the two geography files.put the [io] bla bla bla sentence in the cfg file on topin the last 3 days i learned to do this, because i had to do a clean install 3 times because of outdated mods, unclear instructions and whatever.when i saw your mod, i was in the first place freaking happy that there were still some mods in 2015 (98% of mods i wanted to install are from 2006-2009, with outdated/expired file links and other problems), and in the second place i was happy that i found a mod which does not make vanilla totally different, just better. greetz,Rick
Hi brosorry for being lateI did everything as you said.updated unpacked deleted replaced.but my reputation doesnt go up.I read some other peoples comment about game not reading the descr_faction_standing file.but I added that stupid [io]... in the preference.cfg what should I do to fix this bug? :( medieval means nothing with out diplomacy
Tried changing it to:FactionStanding global 0.5FactionStanding target_faction normalise 1.0 60FactionStanding target_allies normalise 1.0 40And reputation is remaining at mixed after taking 3 neutral settlements.Also I noticed that any changes made to medieval2.preference.cfg are automatically replaced by the default file. So I don't know if you even can change this, as the "[IO] file_first = true" just gets deleted after opening and closing the game. Perhaps there simply isn't a possible solution for the steam version.By the way, thank you for writing the article and being so responsive to comments. I really wasn't expecting to get an answer on a 12 year old article, and I've been attempting to execute your fix for several years now lol. 2ff7e9595c
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