Me little Stainless Steel 6.4 mod installing guide

[Sgt.Knumskull]

Today (30.3.2015) I've started playing the Stainless Steel and encountered some problems with the Steam version of the game. Since the Steam version is slightly different from the ye'olde CD version I would like to compile some information here I've found on how to get the mod working.
Precondition: you own M2:TW AND (sine qua non) the Kingdoms DLC
In order to play the Stainless Steel mod (=SS) with the Steam version of M2:TW you have to...

I

• Download version 6.3 of the mod here[www.twcenter.net]
  You have to download 5 (five) *.bin-files and 1 (one) installer-file of the 6.3 verison. Σ=6 files.

II

• Download the 6.4 version of SS here[www.twcenter.net]

II

• Install SS 6.3.
  
• The installer should find your Steam version/folder of M2:TW.
  
• The following game setup is irrelevant at this point.

IV

• Install SS 6.4. Again the installer should find your M2:TW Steam-folder and SS.6.3 sub dir.
  
• Now read the explanations for the campaign setup and chose wisely.
  
• Do not start the game/mod now for it will pop up an error message:

  "Could not find kingdoms.exe"

• Be sure to chose the same language in the SS setup as you use for M2:TW in Steam. Differing languages (e.g. english : SS // german : game@Steam) will hinder you starting a campaign

V

• Since the Steam version of the whole game was changed some time ago (they got rid of the pesky gamelauncher and reworked the file structure) there is no "Kingdoms.exe"
  
• 1. Go to the game dir

  x:\SteamLibrary\steamapps\common\Medieval II Total War

  and create a doublet of the

  "medieval2.exe"

• 2. Rename the doublet:

  " medieval2.exe --> kingdoms.exe"

  This will trick the mod into working.

This should be the basics for installing and playing the Stainless Steel mod which, if not obvious, I highly recommend to try out.

[Lie Chen Zhou]

Paapienarwal původně napsal:

I've installed everything and renamed the SS map (in the mods) to 'americas'.
I can play it, but it is the 6.3 version.

you need to patch it to 6.4 before renaming it to "americas".
Better rename it back to SS6.3 or reinstall 6.3, patch it to 6.4 again from the start, because that 6.3 is a vanilla 6.3 and will freeze in turn 50 (plus it has numerous other bugs).

[Turd*Viking]

need help, after turn 60 something, every time try to start a battle, it starts to crash to extend it become pointless (in window 10)

[Cookie]

Dziękuje działa, ale jak dodam na końcu jak "Dark Angel " zmiane nazwy folderu np. "americas" na "hello" a "stainless steel" na "americas" :)

Dark Angel původně napsal:

I've made it non-member access.

http://steamcommunity.com/groups/MTWGG/discussions/9/618457398975111579/

[Gigantus]

Here is something a bit newer (and moe detailed) then the 2015 stuff, and PLEASE ignore the 'americas' directory renaming.

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=861485547

[BrisingLord]

This is perfect! It allows me to play SS and the vanilla game + all of the expansions/DLCS, instead of "sacrificing" one of the versions from kingdoms. I do enjoy playing the vanilla versions once in a while... Thanks man!

[Gigantus]

One is glad to be of service