How I Installed Third Age (Third Age Installation Guide for steam users)

[PonyCrisis]

Hello all! THIRD AGE how I installed and all that stuff for steam. Moving on.

0.5. Backup your Medieval II folder. (Computer > Local Disk (C:) > Program Files (x86) > Steam > SteamApps > common > Medieval II Total War) I just copied and pasted it somewhere else. You don't have to do this, but I get paranoid sometimes. :P Comes with installing mods alot I guess. Again, this is optional.

1. Go to Moddb and install the appropriate files. (part 1 of 2, part 2 of 2, and the 3.2 patch if you want it) http://www.moddb.com/mods/third-age-total-war/downloads

2. Once the files finish downloading launch them. (they take a bit to load up) Do part 1 of 2 first, and then do part 2 of 2 when 1 of 2 is done)
IMPORTANT NOTE: The destination path should go to your Medieval 2: Total War folder in steamapps! NOT your mods folder!

LOCATION: Find your steam folder (should be in your C drive.) and then go to the SteamApps folder. From there open the common folder and then your Medieval II Total War folder.

Computer > Local Disk (C:) > Program Files (x86) > Steam > SteamApps > common > Medieval II Total War

Again, DO NOT set the destination to a mods folder! It creates it's own mods folder.

3. In your Medieval II Total War folder there should be a application/launcher that says "medieval2" (without the quotes) and it has the medieval 2 total war icon. Make a copy of it and rename the copy "kingdoms.exe" without the quotes.

A desktop shortcut should appear on your desktop. Use that to play.

Hope this helps. Hopefully I didn't forget anything. :/ I'll try to answer any questions.

EDIT: There are other ways to do this, but this is the way I did it. ALSO, you need to REMEMBER that Third Age is installed different than most other mods so I don't reccomend installing other mods the same way unless it says so.

EDIT 2: You don't need to delete and/or remove any of your other mods. And I can still play vannila M2TW with no problems.

[♿Annihilator♿ dropland.net]

I already have TATW 3.2, with MOS 1.6.2... But... Every turn is 1 minute, and its really long. I don't get this bug on the original medieval 2 total war. Help please :/ ? Its really annoying to wait over one minute for each turn :/. Thanks in advance.

[Mango]

Turn off cpu moves ?

[Ruinae Retroque Rursus]

Първоначално публикувано от Arthalor:

I already have TATW 3.2, with MOS 1.6.2... But... Every turn is 1 minute, and its really long. I don't get this bug on the original medieval 2 total war. Help please :/ ? Its really annoying to wait over one minute for each turn :/. Thanks in advance. :HornBlower:

Turn off shadows on the campaign map.

[BeanieCat]

I followed all these instructions carefully, I changed the file name etc, open up americas. But when it open it came up with the normal still image for the americas mod, I skipped the video and when it went to the loading screen it glitched between the americas loading screen and third age. At this point "Medieval 2 Total War located an unexpected error and will now close" Ive been trying to sort this for a few days now so it would be great if someone could hook me up
Thanks
Side note: Patch 1.3 wasn't in the download list I used "http://www.moddb.com/mods/third-age-total-war"

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is it supposed to take a long time to make a copy of medieval2?

[Mango]

Depends on how fast your computer is...

[nyxx]

I have windows 8.1 version 6.3.9600 Build 9600. I don't know if I can follow the same steps as what LordPony said.

[Mango]

You can always try.

[Tomato Johnson]

Followed instructions, but it didn't send a link to desktop to open game.. how do I find it?

[King_Gizzard]

works perfectly, lots of thanks man, you made my day

[Harry3Balls]

hope this works...
2016 still hitting it old school

[Grimnir]

3.0 part 2 does not want to download for me? It says it takes about 20 hours to download and after a while (like 10 minutes or so) it says there is an network fault. Can anybody help me with that?

[Grimnir]

Okey, sorry nevermind. After like 5 tries it finally started downloading

[chubbyninja89 (TNB)]

Първоначално публикувано от PonyCrisis:

So does this work. I can get on and play Third Age with no real huge problems?

I just want to know because I was having problems finding patches for M2TW.

[Ruinae Retroque Rursus]

Първоначално публикувано от chubbyninja89 (Irish Brony):

Първоначално публикувано от PonyCrisis:

So does this work. I can get on and play Third Age with no real huge problems?

I just want to know because I was having problems finding patches for M2TW.

well it's TATW, it is fussy