Medieval 2 mods launching vanilla Med 2 instead of the mod

[Brock Hard Johnson]

I had both TESTW and TATW installed on my computer (TESTW was first, installed TATW the next day). TESTW straight up didn't work when placed in the mod folder, saying it couldn't find the dreaded "kingdoms.exe". Figured out that if I placed it in the main Med2 directory, it would actually find kingdoms.exe, but instead of launching the mod it would launch vanilla Med2. Same thing happened when I tried it with TATW. Strange part is I had an old laptop that had TATW on it that worked whilst in the mod folder of Med 2 and I didn't need to create the kingdoms.exe. I've been at this for hours, trying to scour anything that might help me. I've done all the guides, I've tried all the shortcuts, and nothing works. If it helps, I'm running Windows 11, so I don't know if that affects anything. Please help. I'm so done with this ♥♥♥♥.

[Gomez]

Hello

I'm affraid you are in the wrong forum.

Regards