Rome: Total War

Rome: Total War

Developer(s)	The creative Assembly
Publisher(s)	Original: Activision Current: Sega
First release date	September 22, 2004

Total War

Shogun: Total War	2000
Medieval: Total War	2002
Rome: Total War	2004
Barbarian Invasion
Rome: Total War: Alexander
Medieval II: Total War	2006
Medieval II: Total War: Kingdoms
Empire: Total War	2009
Empire: Total War: Warpath
Napoleon: Total War	2010
Total War: Shogun 2	2011
Total War: Shogun 2: Fall of the Samurai
Total War: Rome II	2013

General information

Official Forums

Steam Community Discussions

Total War Center  Unofficial Discussion and Modding community

Availability

Source(s)	Store unlock	Notes
Steam		Digital copy, requires a free Steam account to play
GamersGate		Digital copy. Includes SecuROM DRM
Amazon		Physical copy with select International shipping
GameFly		Digital copy
Greenman Gaming		Activates on Steam

Improvements

Patches

Patches for the can be found here

Gold Edition is already patched

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 it's expansions, Barbarian invasion and Alexander.

Game data

	Location
Save game location	C:\...\Rome Total War\saves
Configuration files location	C:\...\Rome Total War\preferences\preferences.txt

Save game cloud syncing

System	Native	Notes
Steam Cloud
GameSave Manager

Video settings

Rome: Total War video settings page.

Graphics option	Native	WSGF	Notes
Widescreen resolution
Multi-monitor			Stretched
Field of view (FOV)		Unfortunately it's only the vertical FOV of the battle cam. Increasing it will "dolly out" the view, but not affect the stretching. Leave at default value.
Windowed		Create a shortcut to the executable file. Under it's properties, add the "-window" start option in the target line
Borderless fullscreen windowed
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
Anti-aliasing (AA)
Vertical sync (Vsync)

Input settings

Input Settings	Native	Notes
Remapping
Mouse acceleration
Controller support

Issues Resolved

Failed to find Steam

Failed to find Steam • Link A fix is to copy the steam.dll file from the main Steam directory into the Rome directory under the /steamapps/common/. This is a fix that most likely will fix your problem. This issue is common with the Steam version of the game, with the error window appearing when attempting to launch either Rome: Total War or the expansion Barbarian Invasion. First Method: To fix this, exit Steam and navigate to ...\Program Files (x86)\Steam\ Locate the file ClientRegistry.blob and delete it, before relaunching Steam. Steam will then update before launching and the game should run. Note however this is not a permanent fix, and you may need to do this every time you load up the game. This also deletes your application-specific settings so try out the other fix first. Second Method: A less problematic fix that works for some people is disabling the steam community for this game. To do this, go to your games library, right-click 'Rome: Total War Gold Edition', Select 'Properties' and uncheck 'Enable Steam Community In-Game'. This fix is less problematic since your settings are in the ClientRegistry.blob file, and deleting it will result in those settings being lost.

System requirements

Windows
	Minimum	Recommended
Operating system (OS)	Windows 98SE/ME/2000/XP	Windows 98SE/ME/2000/XP/Vista/7
Processor (CPU)	1GHz Pentium III or equivalent	2GHz Pentium IV or equivalent
System memory (RAM)	256MB	512MB
Video card (GPU)	100% DirectX® 9.0b compatible 64MB Hardware Accelerated video card	100% DirectX® 9.0b compatible 128MB Hardware Accelerated video card
Hard disk drive (HDD)	2.9GB	3.4GB

Mac
	Minimum	Recommended
Operating system (OS)	Mac OS X 10.7.5	Mac OS X 10.8.3
Processor (CPU)	1.4GHz Intel	2GHz Intel
System memory (RAM)	512MB	2GB
Video card (GPU)	128MB	256MB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	6GB	6GB