Empire Total War How do I change the language?

[Black Death Plague]

Well Ive had total war (empire) for quite a long time now and its always been in english and working fine , now I installed it on my new laptop and its mostly* in spanish ???How can I solve this problem.

[SpeedWolf]

Go to your library on steam right click on empire total war go to properties an pop up menu will show up click on language and just select your language.

it might need to download for the change.

hope that help.

[Black Death Plague]

Its downloaed in the correct language yet its still in spanish xD

[SpeedWolf]

It work for me. maybe the other thing is your window is set in spanish in the region and language option.

go to Control Panel and click on Region and Language an in the pop up menu go to administrative.

Look down you will see Change system locale... mine for example the Current language for non-Unicode programs: is English (United States) maybe your is set in Spanish if so just click on Change system locale... and pick English (United States).

restart your windows and start the game. if that don't work I have no idea how to help you.

[Black Death Plague]

Wouldnt other things be in spanish on my pc if that were true ?

[Black Death Plague]

But ty.

[SpeedWolf]

Not necessarily. if it give you a option to pick a different language it would be the language that you pick but some games and software doesn't give you that option before you install.

For example my Need for Speed Hot Pursuit from 2002 didn't give me a option to change language but because I was living in mexico an purchase a laptop with windows that was set in english for display language but the game install in spanish because the system locale was set in mexico.

Also I play a game call men of war that have a lot of russian players every time they type in russian I cannot read it because it didn't show the russian text until I change my system location for it to show me the proper russian font.

that's why I suggested that option.

[oslay452]

did you ever manage to solve this problem?

[ᗷᑌᒪᗩᗰᗩTᗩRI]

Originally posted by oslay452:

did you ever manage to solve this problem?

I did.

Go to Steam's

SteamLibrary\SteamApps\common\Empire Total War\data

Check if there might be other language files of mods that might have conflicted with each other. You can find other language files by searching for files/packs (examples) named like:

patch_***text.pack
patch_***loc.pack
movie_***text.pack
movie_***loc.pack
my_*loc.pack
***localization***.pack

or the likes.

Delete all suspicious ones. Have Steam validate all game files so it can re-download what you deleted but shouldn't have. Before doing so, you could change the language of the game to something else, let Steam download those language packs, then switch back to the desired language, let Steam re-download these language packs as well and only then delete the suspicious files and let Steam validate all game files again. There should be only three files for the language in question in the game's data-folder:

language.txt (1 KB) <-- in there wiff just two letters of the language you've set in Steam!
local_***.pack (~300+ MB)
patch_***.pack (~35 MB)

Also go to yer user folder %AppData%\The Creative Assembly\Empire and delete everything there. But first back up those folders, particularly yer Save_games and Replays and in the scripts yer settings called preferences.empire_script.txt, if you love them.

And lastly: stay away from mods that don't come in yer own language. Otherwise you can start all over again cleaning up the mess they have left behind.