
I simply turned off UAC and haven’t had a single problem. Make sure to turn off UAC, and give the installer administrative control, before installing a mod to a folder in /ProgramFiles AND when running the game. Program Files Problem: If you spend any time on the forums, you’ll see people bitching about /Program Files problems. So of course I decided that I’d take a look at all the major Rome mods and figure out what they were about, how they played, what the campaigns and battles felt like, and then relate that unto you. I am just a guy who has played way too much Total War in his life, done some modding of the various games, and recently had foot surgery, which rendered me immobile for a few weeks. And questions of “What is this mod like?” are usually met with useless answers like “It’s fun!1!!1!” or “Just play it and see!” Figuring out which one you should play is daunting, especially when a campaign game could take anywhere from a few dozen to a few hundred hours. These are some of the largest and most intricate mods that have probably ever been created, and there is a metric ass-ton of them. Perhaps the biggest reason to play Rome is the wealth of mods that have been worked on, and are still being developed, nearly 8 years later. It also has an elegant simplicity-units are responsive, charges and combat just feels ‘right’ in a way that, to me, was lacking in Medieval and Empire’s melee combat. Lumbering Greek Phalanxes, Roman Legions, Axe-wielding Northern Barbarians, Hunnish Horse Archers, Successor Armies, Spanish Hill Tribes-Rome forces you to constantly change your tactics and deal with new threats as you battle new factions. Rome is a lot of people’s favorite TW game, and despite all the graphical and gameplay improvements that have gone on in the series since, the reasons are simple It has a diversity unmatched in Medieval, Empire, or Shogun.
