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![]() Without that background script loading the game it at times suffers random crashes or other performance problems. The script to run which game you want is loaded when you click play on steam. CA deleted the Medieval2.exe and renamed the Kingdoms.exe to be Medieval2.exe. Others are reporting this too and it has just been recent so that may just be the server you downloaded from has not yet had them removed.Īlso, you will note the Kingdoms.exe is now gone. I have both disk and Steam and the last time I downloaded steam version it did not give me the tools. Most of the issues they experience are from running on computers where they do not have full admin rights or they have installed mods that are not completely foldered. I am using windows 10 and this works perfectly. If you have any issues up to this point, try starting a game and making a save file, some times initiating the files is necessary on some machines. Now your Steam M2TW install is ready for modding. ![]() descr_geography_new.txt and descr_geography_new.db. You then need to delete the following two files from the data\ folder. My Medieval 2 installation folder after unpacking was 31.3GB in size! This doesn't include adding any new mods. You will need a lot of extra space to unpack all the files. Be patient.įor those unaware, the files unpacked are all the text, xml, images, and movies. The process can take a while depending on your system specs. You will know they have unpacked correctly when you open the data folder of either the main game or any of the expansion pack folders (inside the mod folder) and see a heap of new files/folders. If you find the expansions do not unpack, simply run the individual bat file that corresponds to that specific expansion (americas, british_isles, crusades, teutonic). For some reason you have to copy these files into the unpacker folder, which was not necessary on the original install. Then run unpack_all.bat from with the unpacker folder, and click yes to each question. To do this you need to copy (from the medieval 2 root folder) msvcp71.dll and msvcr71.dll to the tools\unpacker folder. You will want to unpack the game files for modding: The following assumes you have a clean install with no mods messing up the folder structures. I have been able to get all mods working with no problems using windows 10. So I thought I would put here all the information I have gathered to help people set thier steam version of M2TW up for mods and modding. I still seek if there's possible way that purely implemented by InstallBuilder itself. InstallBuilder allows you to unpack contents programmatically, so I can pack the script into the installer package and unpack
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