Medieval 2: Total War
Discussion
Came across the invalid CD key problem myself.
We discovered the CD-Key is Case Sensitive! Whoever came up with that idea, I'm not sure about, but some genius. Anyway, search your registry for the Medieval 2 CD key, manually capitalise it. It only occurs once in the registry.
Start the game again, and you should be able to log on fine.
Some people advise uninstalling the game, but this is not necessary.
[Edit]You're right about the sieges. Much more challenging, even on normal level. The AI is much more aggressive and bettererer.er.
We discovered the CD-Key is Case Sensitive! Whoever came up with that idea, I'm not sure about, but some genius. Anyway, search your registry for the Medieval 2 CD key, manually capitalise it. It only occurs once in the registry.
Start the game again, and you should be able to log on fine.
Some people advise uninstalling the game, but this is not necessary.
[Edit]You're right about the sieges. Much more challenging, even on normal level. The AI is much more aggressive and bettererer.er.
Edited by Tonsko on Monday 13th November 16:06
Make sure the game is not running.
Press the windows key-r (or press start button and select 'run')
Type 'Regedit' (without quotes)
**be careful in the registry. You can screw your machine. Before doing anything, if you are not familiar with it, once the regedit window opens, go to 'File' then 'Backup registry' and save it somewhere safe. Now you can easily restore if you knacker it.**
Go to 'Edit' then 'Find'
In the search box, type 'Medieval' and press enter.
It will find the right place, and on the right hand side of the screen, you should see some values, the CD key is in plain text.
Double click on the value and change the letters for capitalised versions.
Close down regedit and play the game and try and log on. It should work this time.
It certainly is worth upgrading for - I've got everything turned up on 'pretty' at 1280 and it looks gorgeous. The battlefield looks amazing.
Press the windows key-r (or press start button and select 'run')
Type 'Regedit' (without quotes)
**be careful in the registry. You can screw your machine. Before doing anything, if you are not familiar with it, once the regedit window opens, go to 'File' then 'Backup registry' and save it somewhere safe. Now you can easily restore if you knacker it.**
Go to 'Edit' then 'Find'
In the search box, type 'Medieval' and press enter.
It will find the right place, and on the right hand side of the screen, you should see some values, the CD key is in plain text.
Double click on the value and change the letters for capitalised versions.
Close down regedit and play the game and try and log on. It should work this time.
It certainly is worth upgrading for - I've got everything turned up on 'pretty' at 1280 and it looks gorgeous. The battlefield looks amazing.
Edited by Tonsko on Wednesday 15th November 15:48
superlightr said:
thank you.
I will have a tinker this weekend.
The battles are very good, like the blood being spattered. The cav charges seem a bit tame though - they sort of slowdown/stop when 1 or 2 have hit the target with the rest hanging back.
Look forward to aiming an arrow or four hundred in your direction!
(although immerced in Silent Hunter 3 at the mo as well)
James
I will have a tinker this weekend.
The battles are very good, like the blood being spattered. The cav charges seem a bit tame though - they sort of slowdown/stop when 1 or 2 have hit the target with the rest hanging back.
Look forward to aiming an arrow or four hundred in your direction!
(although immerced in Silent Hunter 3 at the mo as well)
James
Yep, we (as in a bunch of people I know who play the game) think it's a bug in the cavalry. There's so much broken in the game it's a little bit frustrating. They were going to release a patch when the game came out, but I think it's due in 2-3 weeks.
Registry location is: "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE - SOFTWARE - SEGA - Medieval II Total War" then on the right it's the 'CD Key' value. (The forum software seems to strip out the back slash, so I've replaced it with a dash).
However, I don't know how it will behave if you still have the demo installed - I uninstalled that before the main event.
However, I don't know how it will behave if you still have the demo installed - I uninstalled that before the main event.
Edited by Tonsko on Sunday 19th November 13:13
It's a testament to how good this game is, that it's got SO much broken about it, yet it is still an amazing game.
I think there's a patch due in a week or so - some rumours suggest it's going to be a big one too - around 200Mb. Still if it fixes the AI and the cavalry charge bug, and the pathfinding, the 'do nothing' bug, the unit placement bug etc etc, I'm all for it
[edit]FunkyNige - you'll need at least a gig of memory to make this game run nicely and load smartly.
I think there's a patch due in a week or so - some rumours suggest it's going to be a big one too - around 200Mb. Still if it fixes the AI and the cavalry charge bug, and the pathfinding, the 'do nothing' bug, the unit placement bug etc etc, I'm all for it
[edit]FunkyNige - you'll need at least a gig of memory to make this game run nicely and load smartly.
Edited by Tonsko on Wednesday 22 November 09:23
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