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Rome: Total War

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Rome: Total War
Rome: Total War cover
Developers
The Creative Assembly
Publishers
Activision
Release dates
Windows September 22, 2004
macOS (OS X) March 26, 2009
Rome: Total War on Wikipedia

Warnings

GameSpy online services have been shut down (see Network for solutions).
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Key points

GameSpy multiplayer replaced with Steamworks; all product keys activate on Steam.[1]

General information

Official series site
Official Forums
Total War Wiki - A wiki for the series
Total War Center Unofficial Discussion and Modding community
Steam Community Discussions
Steam Users' Forums - for Rome: Total War series

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Amazon.com
DRM details are not known
Physical copy with select International shipping
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GamersGate
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Green Man Gaming
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Steam
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Error: key type '{{{5}}}' not recognised
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Retail
Disc check (requires the CD/DVD in the drive to play)
DRM: SafeDisc disc check.
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All product keys activate on Steam.[1]

Essential improvements

Patches

  • Every patch can be found here.
The Gold Edition is already patched to the latest version.

Modifications

Europa Barbarorum:

Europa Barbarorum is a total conversion modification. The modification affects all areas of RTW; all vanilla units have been removed, all new models and textures, a new economic system, new traits system, new scripts, and in general new gameplay. No area of RTW is left untouched.

Roma Surrectum:

Roma Surrectum 2 is a full conversion mod to Rome Total war 1.5 and the predecessor to the original Roma Surrectum mod featuring unique Roman legions, new factions, units and a stunning high detailed map. Roma Surrectum 2 is developed for Rome Total war, but it will also run on both of its expansions, Barbarian invasion and Alexander.

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Instructions

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

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System Location
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/4760/pfx/[Note 1]

Save game data location

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System Location
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/4760/pfx/[Note 1]

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
Steam Cloud

Video settings

In-game video settings.

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Widescreen resolution

Instructions

Input settings

In-game key map settings.
In-game camera settings.

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Audio settings

In-game audio settings.

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Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English

Network

Multiplayer types

Type Native Players Notes
LAN play
8
Online play
8 GameSpy is offline; activate key on Steam to use new servers.[1]

Connection types

Ports

Protocol Port(s) and/or port range(s)
TCP 3783, 6500, 6667, 28900, 29900-29901
UDP 6515, 13139, 27750, 27900
Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) support status is unknown.

Issues fixed

mss32.dll was not found

You have installed Rome Total War on a 64-bit system, but there is a bug in the installer which installs the game files in the wrong location by default. The incorrect default location is C:\Program Files; the correct location to install these files is C:\Program Files (x86). To fix this uninstall Rome Total War and all its expansions and patches, then freshly install the game again, making sure to installer selects "C:\Program Files (x86)" to install the game to. Warning: uninstalling the game and its expansions and patches will delete any saved games, the save game data folders should be copied to another destination and replaced after the fresh install.

Failed to find Steam

Instructions

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 98 SE
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium III 1.0 GHz
System memory (RAM) 256 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 2.9 GB
Video card (GPU) 64 MB of VRAM
DirectX 9.0b compatible
Shader model 1.0 support
macOS (OS X)
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 10.7.5
Processor (CPU) Intel 1.4 GHz
System memory (RAM) 512 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 6 GB
Video card (GPU) 128 MB of VRAM

Notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data (use Wine regedit to access Windows registry paths). Games with Steam Cloud support may store data in ~/.steam/steam/userdata/<user-id>/4760/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (4760) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

References