Anyone seeing skulls in spouses' portraits?
Copy the game to a folder outside the steam folder and apply the patch to the copy. Create a shortcut to the exe file on your desktop or wherever is convenient. Steam is not required to run the game.How do you apply the patch to a Steam version of the game? Specifically, can you make a copy of the Rome folder in the Steam directory to apply the patch to and still have the game work? Because I see multiple warnings NOT to apply the patch to the original folder. Seems like the Steam DRM would shut down a copy...??? Help?
Is there any solution to this? I'm in the same situation. Correct checksum, CTD as soon as I click on Single Player.I'm having a problem with this patch. The game loads fine, and I get the correct checksum XEVC. But as soon as I click on "Single Player" to start a game, or try to start a tutorial, I get a CTD. I'm on Windows 10 with a Steam installation. I've followed the instructions in previous comments carefully about copying the Steam installation, deleting the map cache and settings.txt etc. - I think that bit must have worked right or I wouldn't get the correct checksum. What's weird is this - the original Steam installation, version 2.32, works fine. I wonder if the Steam shortcut - which does steam://rungameid/23440 - is doing something extra that just launching the exe doesn't do.
AFAIK they haven't done that with HoI3, EU3, or any other superseded version so I wouldn't expect it.I hope they will give EU:Rome (1) for free soon, in preparation of Imperator:Rome.
Quick question: The game was crashing constantly before. Will this fix anything in any way?
Let me expand on this: The game would constantly crash on any saved game if I progressed sufficiently. I don't know if it has to do with save-game file-size or what, but it always crashes. It's a guarantee, and it doesn't necessarily happen at the end of a month.
https://we.tl/o3oaiOXvuy - here are the dxdiag files (regular and x64)