How To Install Darthmod Empire In 2021 

i will play this game till i die best game ever.

Until Total War, or any game developer for that matter, start making good interesting RTS conquest games again then we will continue playing our old games.

Currently playing a British run rn this game is timeless

Glad you found the video helpful. And I'm really happy you found help from our other viewers and subscriber comments. Nice to think of this as another helpful resource out there.

Thanks so much! I hope to do some more mod installation videos in the future. Hopefully they will also be straight forward and easy to follow.

I appreciate the feedback. I tried to make the video so that it would show this issue. It also had me stumped temporarily, when it first happened to me.

this is confusing but now im watching this it makes more sence thanks ZigZagZog

Love hearing that the video helped you out. Nothing more annoying than when our computers don't do what we want them to do. Enjoy playing once again!

Glad to hear it was helpful to you. This kind of comment makes my day. Thanks.

I'm super glad you found this helpful. Now the only thing left for you to do is go have fun with the mod!

Thanks for the feedback. Glad to hear the video helped!

It's an old mod and game, but I still like to play them. I made this in case there were other like me out there. Glad to hear you liked it. Enjoy the mod!

Thanks for letting me know that you found the video helpful. Makes me happy I made the tutorial.

I really appreciate this kind of feedback. Makes me more inclined to try some different install videos in the future.

Thanks! Have fun with the mod.

It makes me very happy to have made the video when I find out it is actually helping people. Thanks.

That was my goal. Glad to hear it worked for you. Now go enjoy the mod!

mh.. try to reinstall the mod maybe there is a problem with the files, sometimes when you download from internet you can have some corrupted files.

Thanks Frank! I appreciate the comment and the feedback.

I'm glad the video helped you out! Thanks for the comment and have fun with the mod.

@@zigzagzoghistorical aaaaaand now it CTD after trying to load a save file orplayany campaign. ughh

Every now and then, even in my current playthrough, the game doesn't load. 9 times out of ten I just need to reboot my computer and everything starts working again. Often times some minor item in windows, or some other program has updated and throws things temporarily out of wack. Usually the simple reboot takes care of that. I would try that first.

@@zigzagzoghistorical Thanks. I rebooted once, and it worked. Second time, I uninstalled/reinstalled Empire and it works properly now.

@@bhugh215 Glad to hear it's working now. Enjoy the mod. It's a touchy mod, and now you know the most basic way to keep it good when minor issues might occur. Rebooting is your friend. :-)

Thanks for the feedback. I'm glad to hear it helped you.

Sorry for the late reply, but glad to hear the video was a help to you. Hope you're enjoying the mod.

Thanks for the feedback. Really glad to hear that it helped you out.

LoL I hope you have recovered from the shock. Are your ears still ringing? I think I mentioned something about it in the video, but I’m sure I didn’t make a big enough deal about it. Hopefully your comment will save someone else the experience.

Appreciate your extra input!

My man, you saved me. This is legitimately what fixed it for me. Thanks for sharing!

I don't know about hero, but I DO hope you enjoy playing the mod and becoming the hero for your chosen country.

Glad you found it helpful. Hope you're enjoying the mod!

I'm very happy that the video helped you. I've have other videos like this help me in the past, so I figured I would make my own to maybe help others out there too. And THANKS for the subscribe!

I'm happy to hear that this was a help for you. Enjoy the mod!

Thanks for the comment. Hope you're able to enjoy the mod now!

I'm glad to hear it helped you out. This oldie, but goodie mod can be a challenge sometimes to get installed. Now go have fun with it!

I'm glad the subtitles worked for you! удачи

On your Darthmod launcher, do you have auto launcher turned on or off under settings? If off, you should be going to start Empire manually from steam. Hope I'm understanding your issue properly.

@@zigzagzoghistorical no matter what I do, even if I installed it 12 times over exactly according to your instructions (except for the 2nd disc thing I didn't get that popup since I placed it in the same folder). but I keep getting sent back to steam and the game closes without even showing the SEGA intro

@@thijsheesen4901 me too

Delete preferences script

Thanks for the reply. Hope you found it helpful. Now just enjoy the mod!

There is a setting in the launcher that will turn off the launcher music. I also have mine turned off because it startles me every friggin time. LoL

And thank you! I really appreciate you taking the time to let me know.

Did you rename it to what your PC was looking for? Not the specific rename that I used in my example? (Sorry for the slow reply, the holidays sort of got in the way for me)

@@zigzagzoghistorical yes I did. didnt do anything

GP if you're still having trouble cause i was having the same problem, you need to unzip part 2 and then it will work

@@wfr1108 Thanks for the helpful comment. Sometimes it’s easy to overlook these little details with all the steps involved in an install.

@@wfr1108 I did. it just goes back to saying desktop

There are times you will not get the second disk prompt if the "second disk" has the name that is being looked for. In my example, the names were different, so I had to make the adjustment. It's not always necessary. If you still can't get the mod running, let me know. I'm not an amazing troubleshooter, but sometimes I get lucky.

@@zigzagzoghistorical im gonna try that! Thanks!!!!!

@@zigzagzoghistorical Could you please give an example of how the files should be named? What happens is that I don't speak English fluently and I think I'm getting confused haha, sorry mate 😅

Thanks for the view and comment. Unfortunately I have not seen nor heard about gear symbols replacing the start button. Not sure what would cause that. I had a little time to google around, but have yet to find anything helpful on that issue.

Am also having the same problem

I still haven't found the solution for your specific "Gear" problem on the launcher. Found another page posted by Darth that I hadn't seen before. Don't know if any of the solutions would work, but looking through the suggestions may ring a bell for you guys on something you may have overlooked. And I'll still check around some more as I get a chance. www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?563094-INFORMATION-GENERAL-SOLUTION-THREAD

I have same problem to i reinstalled it about 3 times my friend tried to help but he couldn't figure it out either.

If the second disc is labeled properly, it won't stop to ask for it, it will just continue the install. I purposely made them not match for my video, because it throws people when it DOES happen. I should have been more clear that it might NOT ask for the second disc if it's labeled properly when extracted. Glad it's working for you!

The launcher music keeps playing? That's weird. DM also has it's own in-game soundtrack. Is that what you're talking about? You can control that with the in-game volume controls.

If you're talking about the um...slightly loud...launcher music, you should just go to the settings tab on the launcher, then launcher audio and turn it off.

Thanks for the response! Glad to hear the video helped you.

Thanks for the thanks 😏

Thanks for the feedback. Have fun with the mod!

So you followed this path C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Empire Total War? You could have it on a different disc than C on your computer, but following this path and you don't find it?

Did you play the base Empire before installing Darthmod? It is a good practice to make sure the base game operates 100% before installation. Also, sometimes a simple computer reboot overcomes this issue. (But not always) Thanks for checking out the video and sorry for the slow response.

Do you get this message right after trying to start the game with the Darthmod Launcher?

I'm glad the video helped you. And THANKS for letting me know where you are viewing from. I love seeing the global reach of RU-vid and finding out where everyone is watching from. This is so cool to me!

Did you have the launcher working at all? Did you get into the Darthmod version of the game? Or did you just have the launcher open and now can not open it again without accessing the game? Sorry for the delayed response.

Nevermind i reinstalled and it didnt pop up again thank god.

nvm i got it

Glad you figured it out! Have fun with the mod.

@@zigzagzoghistorical thanks again! kindve random but is there any other mods you recommend for empire tw?

@@jaydendonofrio2487 The Rights Of Man isn’t a bad mod. If you want more focus with your mod, Imperial Splendor is one I like if planning to play as France or Great Britain. And if you don’t mind focusing just on the American Revolution, The American Revolution mod does a pretty good job there.

Don't know why it won't download for you. Hard drive space ok? Internet connection ok? Beyond that, not sure why it won't download.

@@zigzagzoghistorical I got over 300 gb left. Internet connection is good. Idk

Sorry Thomas, but you managed to stump me on this one. 😡

I've not experienced any kind of "Restrictions" error. And in looking around a bit, I'm not finding any reference to this kind of error. So sorry. :-(

Yeah, not using the launcher will often just get you into vanilla. I've had the game not load properly with the launcher, every now and then. Usually I just need to reboot my PC to get things flowing again. If that simple fix doesn't work, we'll have to dig into it a little further.

@@zigzagzoghistorical I tried rebooting my PC and trying both the game launcher they give you and the steam launcher, however, I have the same problem. I tried deleting then redownloading it but I'm running into the same problem. An inconsistency with my downloads however is that whenever I download the part 1 download it is not an exe file. Thank you for the help.

So when you download and then unzip the file you are not getting this file: DarthMod_Empire_v8.0_Platinum.exe?

@@zigzagzoghistorical I wasn't, however it seemed I fixed my issue in a very odd way. When I redownloaded and opened the launcher then closed out of it, I told it to make my empire steam launcher VAN ready rather than DME ready. I hopped onto the game, left, changed it back to DME ready and somehow it worked... really weird but now darthmod is working fine! Thank you!

Awesome! Glad to hear it's working for you now.

Might of found a way to fix that homie idk about you but I went into user script on the launcher and just deleted all of them there as a last screw it then laughed it no crash back to steam on start up it works now the user script can be found on the edit

The auto launcher does not always work for everyone. So just keep it off and load manually from steam with while keeping the launcher open. Now if a save doesn't open, my first suggestion is to just reboot the PC. It's weird, but sometimes that simple move fixes things. Let me know if that doesn't work.

So you are trying to play the 40 unit save version? And you are not getting 40 units allowed, only 20? Did you load the game from the 40 unit save version of the faction you chose? Is this the problem you are talking about?

Plz help me man I really love to have help

Sounds like a missing file somewhere. Not sure why that would be. Maybe try redownloading to see if that might help. I'm not super sure on this error. Sorry. Didn't find anything helpful on a quick google search either. :-(

@@zigzagzoghistorical No worries, thanks for the effort and great video!

@@zigzagzoghistoricali also get a error that files to be be renamed from x86

You need to unzip the zip file. It's inside there. It's so stupid, but thats what you gotta do.

I appreciate your helpful reply since I've been unable to respond sooner. Thanks!

Hey Jack! Thanks for the view and the comment. I have been slightly busy this week, with the holidays coming up, and I haven't had a chance to look into this mod and it's compatibility with Darthmod. Hopefully I will get a chance soon. Thanks for your patience.

@@zigzagzoghistorical Gotcha man. I will be patient then. In any case, have a Great Holiday.

So you downloaded part 2? Did you unzip the part 2 file after downloading? Don't necessarily name the part 2 link like I did. See what description your computer is looking for at that point, and rename accordingly (if necessary). Some quick thoughts to try and help.

@@zigzagzoghistorical how do I unzip the part 2 file

@@johankl1928 I have not made a video on how to use one of the many unzipping programs out there. And some windows versions, I believe have the capability too. I’ve used winzip from way back. Just google how to unzip files. It should not be too difficult for you. Sorry to not have the exact instructions for you.

Thanks for watching the video and congrats on downloading the mod. So it sounds like you are manually launching from steam. Make sure your Darthmod launcher is open and set for Darthmod ready. When you are launching from steam you must also keep the Darthmod launcher open. If I still have problems, the first thing I do is reboot my computer. It's always the first thing I try and you'd be amazed at how often this helps. This is often all I have to do after a windows or driver update that throws things off. Did you play Empire before downloading the mod? Sometimes you must open the game in vanilla first (for some reason) then reset the Darthmod launcher to DM ready (sometimes when running on vanilla, the Darthmod settings reset to default, so if you want any custom settings you will have to reset those again) and try launching on Steam again with the DM launcher open and set to DM. If these more simple solutions don't help, try the following link (it's a lot to dig through, but there is some great troubleshooting ideas there). www.twcenter.net/forums/archive/index.php/f-1646-p-5.html

@@zigzagzoghistorical Thanks a lot it helpt out

I can't guarantee any results for crack versions. I can't recommend these versions, but I also am not going to judge you if that what you have. I don't know your personal situation. But I do appreciate your view of this video. My video is designed for those using the Steam version of the game. And the Darthmod launcher is designed to work with Steam. I imagine you'd have to find and alternate way to launch.

@@zigzagzoghistorical Hi, I bought the game:) thanks for the video, which I will make and play as in the video.