Note that you may not encounter none, some or all of the problems mentioned below — user experience seem to vary from each installation.
Also, not that some of these problems may exist in the legitimate version of the game as well. Sound issues, missing sounds and other audio related problems. Problem : Missing sound effects. You may encounter missing or no sound effects with Empire : Total War.
For example, when you give the command for a unit to march, you may not hear the corresponding sound effect.
Some have reported missing sounds from horses, swords, cannons, etc as well. Solution 1 Untested : Note that I have not tested this solution myself. Backup all replaced files before testing his method. Crash to desktop CTD , freezes, installer issues and hangs. Problem : Some users both pirated and legitimate have experienced crashes with the game when trying to start a new campaign for example when trying to start the road to independence campaign while some have reported crashes after the first battle.
Some others have experienced the game crashing or freezing at the loading screen or just randomly. Solution : No direct solution yet. Keep in mind that updating DirectX, Microsoft.
NET Framework and your system drivers will always help at least minimize the chances of random crashes. This is for the pirated version of the game. Problem : Installer crashes before completion. If you are using Windows 7 Beta and even on Vista and XP in some instances , you might experience crashes with the ETW installer, specially at the end of disk1 or disk2 installation.
If you press the browse button or type and incomplete path, the installer will crash. May or may not work for OS versions other than Windows 7 as well. Keep in mind that the installer may take a long time to complete — this is normal. Legitimate buyers who downloaded the game from Steam have had their share of problems as well. Solution : The above problems may have something to do with Steam not downloading all of the game files correctly.
Re-Download any files if required. Make sure you have the following software installed on your system for optimal game experience. Direct download links are given below:. Latest Microsoft. NET Framework : Download the latest. RTI Crash - I updated my Nvidia drivers and then began a reinstall of the game - I did not uninstall just installed over the folder.
It stalled at around about files I then cancelled the installation. A recent commenter stated it no longer works-therefore-I would check on the games newest forums to see if there is a newer fix for you. Post a Comment. For some, here is a fix for a chronic and widespread sound issue.
This was the only solution that saved me.. The puff of smoke that sporadically pops out of muskets and cannon are amazingly realistic, the cannon ball realistically blasts through doomed troops, bounces on the ground, then crashes into a nearby house, taking out half the wall and caving in the roof! Let me tell you, you better have a decent system too, I can play CRYSIS on my pc relatively well, but, this one kills my frame rate on any Ship Skirmish involving more than 2 boats BTW-oh yeah, here the sweet fix for any sound issues that you may be having.
That should work. Remember you'll probably need to start episode 2 again sorry, can't help you there…. But I do not have a savefile before capture Loiusborg. Any way to get around? Erase this file or leave the original one and it works so far.
Aleph, did you add the modified boot. What about the config folder with master servers? And the 4 UI files? Quebec and Montreal did not stay visible, after I had started a new campaign.
Plus I was not able to control my taxes. I used the modified crack files from Poisons website mentioned earlier. As far as I can guess, they use the same boot and all that other pack files maybe I'm wrong?
Yes I used that config folder and the ui folder as well though as far as I can tell those are the same files as the install files. Ben at a certain point I have to suspect you have a failed installation or something I've personally had to reinstall more times than I can count on my hands. I find modifying the setup. I have been trying to get this set up for a friend to install as well, I guess I could upload an archive for everything that should be theoretically ready to copy paste over a fresh install as well as that setup.
I could upload that, but it will take awhile if you want to try that…. Another day, another wasted few hours trying to do anything conceivable to get setup. Is there any chance someone could upload their setup. Maybe mine is just corrupted. AS I type this I have already got the re-installation process going. I as well have tried multiple installations.
I would say around 8 times. Which post number speaks of modifying the setup. Which files does it contain? Well to me it seems sloppy since for some reason it doesn't install the right sound file and there are redundant files in the original crack. Also some of the original crack files which I extract from the dvd seem to cause people trouble as well. Finally I've never had a game I had to extract from the dvd to install before until now.
The right to complain is a bit different from the right to demand anything of them I'd say -P. Otherwise I'd be spamming forums about how it doesn't work instead of trying to figure out how to get it working.
And before you get me started, it's not just Razor I have beef with. CA gets some of the blame too I still remember barbarians that would just run around my walls getting shot to death by arrows instead of ever attacking , heh. I first did a complete reinstall. Or you could just replace all those pesky files. Either way make sure you have all orignal. Download this crack fix.
Replace orignal files with these. Then replace all the orignal files with the ones found at this link. I was able to get past the fog of war in quebec, but then after I finished episode 2, The game froze while trying to load Episode 3. Thanks for your help. Hey everyone i had all the same problems as you Nrvana but i still cant come in… it just chrashes before i even get in the menu… can anyone help me?
Will work up till the end of episode 2, fixes quebec problem, but you get 2 mission cards for Quebec and Montreal. Once it starts loading up Episode 3 it will freeze. I've now given up on getting my sounds to work but I did want to mention.
When I first installed not the proper install and used the demo soundpack, I could actually hear some sounds. After that the sounds have stopped working, including the demo ones. Just wanted to say that incase anyone knows why that happened. Can anyone plz help me? It's not that the dlls for Steam isn't available, they need to be downloaded by Steam on first run, so make sure that firewalls are off and not blocking Steam's updater connection. When should i download steam or when should i connect to it etc.
Since i reinstalled with the new edited crack the campagin does work, but now i have another problem, the money is screwed up! Thx ben and aleph0knot, the money seems to be back to normal now. I am only up to episdoe 2 on the Road to Independence so i will see tomorrow if i can get passed and onto no. All fixes that get Montreal and Quebec to appear, prevent Episode 3 to load.
The progress of the loading bar will freeze near the beginning of the loading. If anyone can find a fix for this please let me know. This is for the Road to Independence campaign. I had my first bug when i tested the game…when i exit out of mission 1 on road to independance the system crashes and i get a white screen of death…it is like when the system exits it wants to reload the first mission again and it makes the game crash…i tried the grand campaign and i get no such bug…i have read about this here and remember vaguely something about it…can someone clarify it they had a fix for this.
Hi every one well i hope u answer me couse i have a very diffrent promblem. Hey guys all of you can install the game me in the 1st play cannot install it. I have no problems playing the independence campaign whatsoever…I installed the razor release, replaced the razor cracked files with the edited ones, copied in the mb version of the sound sfx file and finally replaced the cracked episodic 1 file with the original one.
I never had the fog of war issue and episode 3 loaded after taking a bit longer than usual… There are some CTDs in Independence still, but no more CTDs in grand campaign. As for the install, I extracted the iso files prior to running the installer and let it grab the needed files from the extracted isos. No missing dll files for me. Ohohoh: Looks like I pastebin is changeing address everytime an update is posted. Or are you only seeding the 8GB one now?
Anyone have a solution to playing Lan games? Ok now when i do the battle of bunker hill my game keeps crashing? Which files have to do with the trade money being so high? It seems that when trying to get episode 3 to work, I replaced the fixed money issue. I really HATE steam…. Does anyone else have a problem at the end of Episode 3, After you beat the episode, it will play the movie clip and after it has ended it will go to the main menu? You can play episode 4, but you are dirt poor and dont have all the colonies you had before.
Is that normal? Good on Steam, they will have you all running round in circles trying to crack this game, to get it to work perfectly, and it ain't happening LOL!! Love it. Buy the game mothers, mine works just great. If you have the Fort Duquesne mission and the Niagara mission and capture Niagara you complete them both at the same time which prevents the next part from triggering properly. I finally got the. It doesn't give me any error message. Also, my install folder is only 2.
Ok, with the help from 5 pages of comments here, I got the sound working fine, and I have Quebec and Montreal appeared. I lost the battle and I got a Crash-To-Desktop. Tim, go into the DirectX folder and do the install.
You need to update your DirectX.. Anyone knows the rapidshare links for the 8 gig version? I mean the Eng Repack version please let us know if u have the links. I orignally had the DirectX error and have sense updated that and my graphics driver for an ATI HD , as well as disabled my firewall and installed steam.
I still have the same problem of the game crashing at the copyright screen before the intro movies to the game or anything else plays. CPU usage goes straight up and I get an hour glass and end up having to kill empire. Does anyone have any ideas on how to fix that? I did not use the game redistribtal to update directx but rather the web installer directly from Microsoft's Website as the directx installer did not complete the startup and ended up closing without appearing to do anything.
No missing sounds anywhere or no CTDs anywhere. I start setup press install in 1second it has installed but i only get a shortcut in program files with nothing installed:S. Hi,play the game and works in this variant 1. Does anyone know of mod for Grand Campaign, that will allow you to have no year limit, so the game wont end until you take over all territories?
So, I read pages of this and I have the same problem as Did everything recommended, then tried the sketchy recommendations, and still nothing — when I run Empire. Doesn't even get to the splash screen either. Something i should worry about, the game works ok for me no crashes ect. Finished a grand campaign and came back to read the comments.
Pah, what a waste of time. Poison please update your help stuff so more people don't get confused. Can any1 pls upload the razor installer together with setup.
Would be great if anyone knew how to fix it. I have yet to reach the "end point" of the game myself, but I've heard from others that you will get a "Do you wish to continue playing" option, despite the results.
Hey guys, I finally got the game to run, which is awesome. However whenever I click on any "play game" button from the game menu it crashes. Anyone know what the problem is? I need an edit button…. I am stuck here. Hey Fred, yeah I just finished Bunker Hill earlier today and got past it. Saved and went back to the grand campaign, heh.
As I mentioned before I installed using a changed setup. Tried beating it again though? The game sometimes crashes just because. Hey everybody what is this setup. Me again guys … Just to inform you that I failed to copy the files to HD gives me the message Invalid perimeter or something?!? Sorry for the spam. Hey guys just wondering again if you could answer my simple question "do you have to have steam, to install this version of ETW" thanks in advance guys XD.
First time I installed it I could enter the game, I saw the first screen saying Empire Total war, date of production etc.
DAT file is missing. I reinstalled it yet again and got that "First Screen" back, but still cant get to the main menu, the game keeps ctd crash to desktop …. There is a patch on steam, can we update the razor release through steam I don't think so, but, you know.. A valid serial is needed to update via steam.
Unless they also make a stand alone patch, we need to wait for a torrent. Bug "rz" put in game script mouse movemnt script demoliscion building script diplomacy lua file. Hey guys I read in torrent comments that Steam has some way to know that you're using the cracked version of ETW and will ban your legit steam account if you have one on your computer… Anyone has info about this?
How could we avoid it? DoW II was done in the same fashion and someone uploaded the changed files. Not quite sure how all changes are tracked though. Or, you could just make a second steam account. Hey everbody, again: … i need some help when i try and install the game with is mounted with daemon tools.
Can someone please upload the patch somewhere? But from what I read at the forums for some people it fixed all the crashing while others can not even play any battle now…. Killer …which forums are you referring to? And as for the patch an upload would be appreciated. No idea why this would happen, though. You can copy patch.
DL only patch. Test and comment please. Gotten salvation from a young priest, and an old priest. Borrowed something blue 3. Caught a lebricon 4. Slaughtered 10 unicorns. Updated all possible drivers 6. Not cursed the last 10 weeks. The game demands such a huge machine to run properly. I'm running on high settings, with a huge f'ing rig, and i still get lag.
It demands about times more than the earlier Total war series. I think the setup. I applyd the patch, my game seemed to run smoother not sure tho. But the problem i get now are empire. To some of the morons who spam this thread because they can't install Razor shiat. I repeat, download gamesfromtorrentsru repack, it works and u don't have to have Steam installed to play. I'm not at home right now..
After applying patch. My game will just CTD at the startup. Seems to me a corrisponding empire. Hey everybody i got the game working and i think ive got 1 LAST problem whenever i start up the game the PF usage goes to 1. Need HELP!!
Can anyone upload the proper sound file fix to netload, as i can't get access to RS with the stupid net restrictions at college. Well the patch caused problems with other language versions. Only english one was working. SEGA was about to release a hotfix by now. Regarding the problems, I had none. So far the game has crashed only once during AI turn. Gamestopping bug reported by many people with the original version.
Was supposed to be fixed in this latest patch. That is why I am so eager to get it. I am not sure if the old cracked exe will work though. Please someone confirm what's been updated in the update 2? Could you upload original files from Razor release that your repack replaced, please? I want to apply Razor's update. Please boblee or other user You can Re-UP the part 38 of megaupload link please? It's down. So if u are having the same problem dont bother to solve it cuz u cant just download the 7gb one..
When I am installing the game, it sits there at files, and the file name it is on and always stops on is. Joe dw i had exactly the same problem some fles just take AGEs to install it took me aboout an hour for that file so just sit tight:.
An update from Got the game running, apparently I wasn't waiting long enough. Startup takes about 1 minute before the game intros play. I did move the game from a NTFS compressed partition to an uncompressed, though I don't think that had anything to do with it starting. My problem is, i have sound and the game works… but i hear no sound from cannons and gunfire.
All other sound is fine… What to do? When i win the battle between great britain and U. Can anyone tell why? Guyz i have just one small question i'v downloaded the game from sms4file and i have now two files with no extension i tried to rename it in. TNx in advance. Is there a way to unlock those special units, or is it just impossible sinds u need steam to do it for u. Here mate.
For the First disk, change the first htm to. When it asks for some the. It seems when it gets to that file, installation fails. I downloaded the game , it worked for me after downloading the missing files , but i downloaded the sound fix the real file mb , and i can't hear music or units but i can hear gunshot what to do to fix this.
Hey i keep crashing when i start the game, I dont get it, first the ddl problems then this? Well it must be to good to work. Now, I used the razor from PirateBay, and had some fine campaigns despite no RtI after the first battle…. Then I deleted the folder, reinstalled and could continue my campaign — wow.
And then I tried to reinstall the thing what was I thinking… d'oh! What could be done about that? I can't hear music why why why and i can't hear units voices or advisor but i can hear gunshot etc I downloaded everything is needed the game works great no CTD playing two days.
Hi guys! I've downloaded all the dll files, "install files. What should I do? Hey guys, got a weird little problem, I have been playing fine for the past week, yesterday I installed the new update from razor It worked fine first time I started it, but now a day later it won't for some reason, i tried reinstalling about 3 times now, and even did a system restore. It ctd's right after the empire logo white screen. It might be something blatantly obvious I'm missing, can anyone help?
Hey everyone…. I extracted it and got the two isos… when i did the install after it had no. EXE file…. I've kept an eye on this thread for quite some time and with the information provided I was able to fix most issues with my game. I found that the simplest way to fix the sound problem with the guns and effects is to copy the sounds.
Now with the gunfire noises on the battlefield or on sea battle is awesome. One important issue still remains. The trade tab still crashes my system to desktop so I'm hoping there's an available solution from anyone. Empire total war got to be the best strategy to date once it works properly. Hi,Loaded the razor version,Unrar-it,mounted 2 files using daemon,Run-ed the installer,Completed-it,Copied over the razor updated2 crack,copied over the sound fix everything so far as per instructions.
When i run the game there is no dll error or steam error,the game simply goes into a white screen,the cursor changes to the one from Rome TW and that's IT,it reports that Empire. We are sorry for the inconvenience. Here is the fix to those who have the game come to the first screen then you get Problem and Must Close error:.
When you install the game you have to follow the directions. You have to copy the config and data folders from DVD1 Razor to your installation directory and overwrite everything it wants. You do NOT need to copy the Empire. Use everything and all should be good. Thanks for the reply Cellar Dweller. I did copy both folders too, but to no avail. However i didnt see a update.
I downloaded a new razorDOX 2 file the first one was missing update. Run the update and still the same effect needs to close message. The problem must be in my computer config or something. I will try removing the whole installation and reinstall new. The problem with the white screen at startup and crash is definitely with the video card not being up to par. I got the game to finaly work but it was so slow that it was unplayble.
The fix for me was with a file called swiftshader 2. Anyway i fixed my problem somewhat , hope that this post will help some people as i saw there was 48 pages of complaints on the official website with similar problems. I grabbed the version postet by gigiduru on post By mistake i didnt get part. I cant download a complete new realease here at home, so might anybody be able to pls up the following file for me again?
Hi Guys. Than I run Empire. Mayby i have bad Update?? Please help, sorry for grammar mistakes. I have read all the stories above, i had the same problem as nrvana and some other ppl- I have downloaded everything and installed it succesfully, but i cant play it as it kept asking for 'dll' files, so i downloaded 0knot has linked, thanks to him, it kinda worked and i could actually 'start' it, but then, i saw the black background with Empire logo and some writings, and it sort of changed to white screen and suddenly said an error occurred and automatically turned off.
PS also, if i cant play this, im just going to buy one, as i belive it worth buying one anyway,,, anyway ive looked at the internet and there were two different products, one Empire Total war PC dvd the other Special Forces Edition PC. However, a file of the same name was found.
I'm playing Empire on Darthmod with a new copy of total war and yet again, no battle sounds. The only fixes online are torrents which don't work the the mod, or ads and idiots. If anyone could tell me how to fix this sound issue please let me know. I'm just not that interested in battles for the deaf.
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