Originally Posted by
Mouzafphaerre
THIS FIX IS FOR PLAYING ROME:TOTAL WAR AND ROME:TOTAL WAR - BARBARIAN INVASION on Windows 10
It seems like a lot of text, but it's just to cover every nimble-bimble-n00b-step along the way guys <3
1. Compatibility:
- To make RTW work, go to your install-folder for RTW and locate the files: "RomeTW.exe" and "RomeTW-BI.exe".
- Right-click on those and go to "Properties".
- Go to the tab called "Compatibility" and look all the way down to "Change settings for all users".
- Click that.
- Select the box called "Run this program in compatibility mode for:" and select "Windows 7" from the scroll-down menu.
- Also check the box saying "Run as administrator".
- Hit the "apply" button in the bottom-right.
- Press OK on this and the previous "Properties" screen.
2. Preferences:
- For the steam version of RTW (or RTW Gold) go to your steam folder, for example:
"C:\Games\Steam\SteamApps\common\Rome Total War Gold"
(On my system I did not have Steam install into the "program files"-folders, but I created a different "games" folder on my C drive.)
- For the Disc-version of RTW, go to your install folder of RTW.
- In that folder, go to the folder called "preferences", so that would be "C:\Games\Steam\SteamApps\common\Rome Total War Gold\preferences" (for steam users)
or: "C:\...\...\Rome Total War Gold\preferences" (or whatever, for non-steam users)
In which you will see a .txt file called "preferences.txt"
- In this file, you will need to adjust 2 values:
"STRATEGY_RESOLUTION: "
"BATTLE_RESOLUTION: "
- These have numbers (your RTW in-game resolution)
- Change these numbers to your DESKTOP resolution (in my files both values were set to "1024x768", so I changed them to my actual resolution "1440x900")
- To know your actual resolution, press right-click on your desktop (wallpaper) and click on "Display Settings".
- At the bottom of that pop-upped screen there's a link saying "Advanced Display Settings".
- When you press on that, you will immediately see your desktop resolution displayed in a scroll-down menu. Do not change this, but remember these values (for example: 1440x900 on my system).
- These are the values you need to insert in your preferences.txt in your RTW folder/preferences
- So they will look like this (ON MY SYSTEM!! YOUR'S MAY BE DIFFERENT!!):
STRATEGY_RESOLUTION:1440x900
STRATEGY_MAX_RESOLUTION:2048x1536
STRATEGY_32_BIT:TRUE
BATTLE_RESOLUTION:1440x900
BATTLE_MAX_RESOLUTION:2048x1536
BATTLE_32_BIT:TRUE
- The BOLD print is the only thing you should edit!!
- YOU NEED TO DO THIS FOR RTW, RTW:BI AND ALEXANDER SEPARATELY!!
- For your RTW:BI folder go to:
"C:\Games\Steam\SteamApps\common\Rome Total War Gold\bi" and look for the folder called "preferences"
- In this folder there is also a .txt file called "preferences.txt" Make the same changes here as you did with your RTW's "preferences.txt" file before.
- For your Alexander folder go to:
"C:\Games\Steam\SteamApps\common\Rome Total War Alexander\alexander" and look for the folder called "preferences"
- In this folder there is also a .txt file called "preferences.txt" Make the same changes as before.
- In all three cases; save the file over the original file (make backups of the originals if you want to, they won't work on win10 anyways, else you wouldn't be reading through all this <3)
FOR THOSE PEOPLE THAT FRESHLY INSTALLED THE GAME AND HAVE NO PREFERENCES.TXT FILES YET, HERE ARE THE FRESH FILES IN THE SPOILER THINGIES:
Just copy + paste into Notepad and save it to the path as I described above. Name the files "preferences.txt" and nothing else.
RTW
BI
ALEXANDER
3. Steam Version of RTW:
- In your Steam Library, right-click on Tome:Total War and go to "Properties". Then hit the "Launch options" button and simply write down: "-ne" (Without the "")
4. Disc Version of RTW (Non-Steam):
- Go to your install-folder of RTW and RTW:Alex, whatever this may be.. In the main RTW folder there should be a file called "RomeTW.exe" (about 15MB) and a file called "RomeTW-BI.exe" (also about 15MB, but slightly less than the RomeTW.exe). In the Alexander folder, the file is called "RomeTW-ALX.exe".
- Right-click all three .exe files (one at a time) and click on "Create shortcut". Now move this shortcut to where ever you want to start your RTW from (probably your desktop).
- Now right-click the shortcut and press "Properties".
- In the bar called "Target" you will see something like: "C:\Games\Steam\SteamApps\common\Rome Total War Gold\RomeTW.exe" (for me it's in Steam, because I have the Steam-version of RTW)
But whatever.. you will find your own RTW-installation folder there.
- Now do exactly and precisely this:
1. "C:\Games\Steam\SteamApps\common\Rome Total War Gold\RomeTW.exe" --- DO NOT CHANGE THIS
2. Behind the link I just wrote down @ 1. write down: " -ne" (WITH the space, WITHOUT the "")
3. So it should now say @ Target: "C:\Games\Steam\SteamApps\common\Rome Total War Gold\RomeTW.exe" -ne
4. Click "OK" at the bottom left of the "Properties" screen.
5. Repeat step 1-4 for both RomeTW-BI.exe and RomeTW-ALX.exe.
UPDATE FOR DISC USERS: As brought to my attention by Theesir, older game's Disc-versions may not work at all on Windows10 at the moment, because:
https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/...d-6b1ce61d40d4
This "guide" should be comprehensive enough.. Hope you all get your versions to work on Windows10!!
If not: Let me know in this topic!
Sidenote: I will NEVER help you with getting a non-genuine version of the game to work! For disc-users that have secdrvsys issues, go find a noCD crack somewhere. I will not tell you where you can find these. Remember to repeat step 4 for all the new (cracked) .exe-files.
The game is only like 10euro's @ Steam and well worth it! Besides, it will save you a lot of trouble (compare step 3 to step 4 for example).
[Updated] Making RTW or RTW:Gold work on windows10 - FIX
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