Medieval II: Total War Forum

The edition you can get from Steam runs mostly alright, with a few caveats:

• You need to rename medieval2.exe to Launcher.exe (see Tips & Tricks) to make it launch from Steam.
• Fonts are messed up in the settings dialog and a few other places (menus, etc) - generally the tooltips tell you what the button is, or you can guess from context.
• The loading screens don't display once the progress bar starts moving.
• Windowed mode doesn't work (gives 'Unspecified error' when you launch with the option '-w' or set windowed = 1 in medieval2.preference.cfg)

Hi Bob, I downloaded and installed the game after seeing that you got it to work. Unfortunately I'm having a couple more issues than you and I was wondering if you could help me out? I have poor framerate (about 2 fps) and also my keyboard doesn't work in game, although it did the very first time I launched it. Any ideas why this might be?

Thanks,
Rich.

Is yours the Steam edition?

Because it's in my Steam bottle, I've also got the Visual C++ 2005 Redistributable installed; and I'm running on a Macbook Pro 5,2 w/ nVidia 9600M GT (if you're on similar hardware, with dual video - make sure 'Higher Performance' is selected in Energy Saver in System Preferences; I had really low framerates everywhere before I realised it was set to the slower card).

Yeah it's the Steam edition. I'm running on a Macbook Pro 5.5 w/ nVidia 9400M. Where can I get the Visual C++ Redistributable from? Does it come standard with COG? Sorry I'm kinda new at this.

I think it's installed on first-run of some steam games; or you can grab it at http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=32BC1BEE-A3F9-4C13-9C99-220B62A191EE&displaylang=en

Ok I've installed that and my fps has improved, thanks for that! Unfortunately my keyboard still doesn't function in the game. Any ideas on that front?

I'm not sure -- how are you launching the game? It may be worth attempting to run it in a window (edit Program Files\Steam\steamapps\common\medieval ii total war\medieval2.preference.cfg and add 'windowed=1' under [video]; may be 'windowed=true'). You can also try run the game in a Wine Virtual Desktop; see http://wiki.winehq.org/winecfg under Window Settings - you can get to winecfg by running the command winecfg.exe in your bottle.

There's a passing mention of keyboard issues at http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=6517&iTestingId=11074 - but seems to be Linux (Ubuntu) specific.

Running it windowed seems to have solved it. Thanks for all your help man!

I am able to run medieval 2 on Ubuntu (9.10 and 10.04) with few regressions:

• windowed mode does not work for me with the steam option "windowed"
• kingdoms add-on does not work because of the renaming of medieval2.exe to Launcher.exe to run the game
• saving video options in the game is not possible - every time i start the game i have to set video settings to the desired ones

I have installed Steam and Medieval II using CXGames 9. The game will usually run fine from Steam. However, sometimes when launching it, a dialog pops up from Medieval II saying it has encountered an error and must quit.

Also, sometimes after fighting a battle on the battle map [which works flawlessly btw], after killing all the enemies, the game just exits. Which of course sucks, because now I have to reload the game and fight the battle again.

Has anybody encountered this.

I am playing with CX games 9, MS VS2005 redist installed, the game installed DX9 or whatever. I have a Pentium D, 2 GB RAM, 512 MB ATI Radeon 4500HD

Appreciate any feedback/help.

Hi,
I play medieval total war using cx games 9 without any problems. The most glitches and smaller bugs were fixed in the new version.
What is VERY disturbing is the launcher bug - hence playing addons is not possible :(.
I have Ubuntu Lucid running on a AMD Phenom II X4 with a Nvidia GeForce 250GTS graphic card.

sadly i can't get the steam version to run it keeps poping up a directx error.

in Codeweavers games, install Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0

worked for me right away, it bypasses the initial News window that normally pops up and launches the game.

hope that works for you!

Under the new Crossover it works fine.