Rome: Total War - Gold Edition Forum

I pretty much get to the end of the installation, and then I get this fatal error. It happens at the end of the 3rd disc. I have no idea why I am getting this error. I have now gotten it twice in a row on trying to install the game. Here is a screen shot of the error.

If you can't see the image, the error message is:

Feature Transfer Error:

Error:-1603 Fatal Error during installation.
Consult Windows Installer Help (Msi.chm) or MSDN for more information.

Hi,

You might try installing the following runtime deps into the same
bottle using cxinstallwizard ;

Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0 Redistributable

Directx Runtime Modern

Cheers!

Hello,

Any chance you could send me links to the proper versions to download, there are a lot and I don;t want to download the wrong version.

Thanks a lot

SoMeWhErEs wrote:

Hello,

Any chance you could send me links to the proper versions to
download, there are a lot and I don;t want to download the wrong
version.

Thanks a lot

Hi,

They are actually builtin targets inside cxinstallwizard ;

linux: tick 'show all service packs and dependencies' in cxinstallwizard GUI

Mac: untick 'Hide service packs and dependencies' -> http://www.codeweavers.com/support/docs/crossover-games-mac/mac-preferences-installer

The packages I mention will then appear in the list of install targets,

Cheers!

Do I put those two applications into the bottle I have for Rome: Total War? If I am supposed to do that, how do I reinstall Rome total war so it will install properly?

Hi,

Create a new bottle (I'm not sure which profile will work)
Install the dependencies into that bottle
try installing the game into the same bottle again

Cheers!

PS: Accordng to WineHQ, this installer issue maybe related
to a regression in wine wrt the .msi installer...see;

http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=4496&iTestingId=44494

bug16551

The only way to check that, is to try install the game into stable
wine-1.0.1 -- if it installs into that environment, then it's probaby
the same wine regression (I know of a couple of other .msibased installers
this affects)

This title (on disc media) also incorporates DRM -- a CD check. If you
are using MacOSX, limitations in the scsi drivers will likely cause
this to fail (when starting the game after successful installation).

Do note that various installments of this game are available via digital
download, and don't suffer from the disc based DRM methods.

Cheers!

Mmm, I have the dvd version. I didn't had an error at the install though...

Roger Don, WineHQ, mentions the same problem in the link you provided.

[i]RE: Instalation Problem
by Lordkreps on Monday September 7th 2009, 17:23
Linux 2.6.28-14-generic #47-Ubuntu SMP Sat Jul 25 00:28:35 UTC 2009 i686 GNU/Linux

wine version: 1.1.29

I removed wine again and again and... and made fresh installs.
With first install attempt it stops at the end of 3rd CD. Always same file.
Terminal log:

lordkreps@slave:~/Desktop$ err:msi:ACTION_InstallFiles Failed to copy L"D:\Setup\Data\Data\banners\navy_banner.CAS" to L"C:\Program Files\Activision\Rome - Total War\Data\banners\navy_banner.CAS" (3)
err:msi:ITERATE_Actions Execution halted, action L"InstallFinalize" returned 1603
err:ole:ClientRpcChannelBuffer_SendReceive called from wrong apartment, should have been 0x1c00000038
err:ole:xCall RpcChannelBuffer SendReceive failed, 8001010e

Than I remove game files (cant uninstall). With second install and so one, it stops again at cd1 or cd2, randomly.
Cd-s should be ok, I can install game in windows.[/i]

Havent a solution for the installation part at the moment, what you can do is install the game on a windows system, copy the entire folder + content of program files --> Creative Assembly ---> rome total War
on on external drive and create an xp bottle in Crossover games, then copy the entire content in the program files via managed bottles --> advanced --> browse c:

After that, via programs --> run command --> run the "RomeTW.exe" file.

ok it is some work, but you can give it a try.
Ow if it doesn't work, you should try to export the register settings from the game fromout Windows and import it in to the crossover register.

Let me know if you run into problems.

I've been running into trouble as well. I get the error:

The command RomeTW.exe returned 1.

StdOut:

StdErr:winewrapper.exe:error: cannot execute L"RomeTW.exe"

It will not operate on CrossOver or stable Wine, but I have loaded it before on Windows with only a few small bugs.