Can't Install Rome:Total War

Fizman

During installation the following message appears...

Feature: Rome:Total War
Component:
File:
Error: Catastrophic Error


It seems to happen when the installation reaches C:\..\..\Rome-Total War\data\packs\battle_open.pak

Has anyone seen this before?? Or know of any remedy??

sparkicks1

heres a few tips that might help (simple but yet i must mention it ) check that your cd isnt scratched mostly errors for certain files are cd wise. google the error with the game name and see if any of their game forums have that mentioned. if that doesnt work i recall that you can send off your cd for a replacment for a small fee and a tech store near you might have some special stuff that repairs small scratches. also check if you have enough free space.

Ruu_Old

Try the disc on another machine perhaps?

Anti

I had this problem with bf2142, it was because i had a iso program installed ( poweriso), and the games security software seen it, and must have though i was about to copy the game.

All i did was uninstall it and it installed fine.

OddJobRob

i have a error it keeps asking me to check a pak file to see if i can access it which natually u cant because its still trying to install lol making it problematic for me but i am correct a pak file is like a ziped file for a game containing lots of other files full of the great information that makes it work yeti wont let me do an istall because it wants to check i can access this file :S ui_0.pak

Mr. Presentable

Not wishing to appear cynical, but what did you burn the discs with?

OddJobRob

i didnt burn them i'll show u

RuggieBear

have you any burning/image software installed?

OddJobRob

nope lol they are real disks it works on my friends but not on mine

8T8

Check the process manager are their any duplicate instances of msiexec.exe running in the background ?

Do you have Windows Installer 3.1 installed ?

Try copying all the files from all CD's into one folder on the hard drive and see if installs it will still need the CD in the drive to play the game of course.

Bar that cannot think of anything else you want to try the games official forums, someone there may be able to help there is even a sub forum for install/patch issues.

OddJobRob

Wonder Hanging Gardens keeps crashing :S it didnt happen before :S Invalid msn dos function?

8T8

What is that an old MS-DOS title ?

You know there is a small chance the RAM could be dodgy which could explain the copy errors and now random crashing. Try testing the RAM with Memtest+ to rule it out just in case.


Do check out the official Total War forum supposedly the copying all the files from the CD's onto the HD to install trick works in many cases.

OddJobRob

Apartently not so.. :P as it is now working with install after i have got a new disk so far so good

TheDrunkenBrain

Sounds like a security feature problem, maybe not even a security feature in rome but some other game? Any virtual drives installed (daemon tools or anything like that, or any cd dvd software for that matter)?
Might try looking for processes that are out of place in task manager, google them and then kill them(if the google god tells you they're not critical).