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[mikeck]

Vexing is one of the stages: anger, disbelief, vexation, throwing shit and finally, acceptance

[Nefaro]

The vexation is strong with this one.

[undercovergeek]

Broken the back of the second part of the opening scenario to the supcom forged alliance campaign - had to leave and saved the mission but the ai is in tatters

[Huw the Poo]

Not like the Automatons of Endless Space then, Geek? ;)

[undercovergeek]

Lmao - merciless bastards they were

[Gusington]

Damn even with the Radious mod Attila TW is still tough. Playing on 'normal' difficulty and I am getting slapped around as the Picts by at least 8 other factions. I do own almost all of Britain though. My toehold in the Continent is about to collapse. I'm thinking that once that happens I consolidate all of Britain and then build up to invade Scandinavia instead of trying to settle Western Europe. The Viking tribes sure are ornery.

[Sir Slash]

Let me see if I can help with all the Vexing going on. I believe I had the same problem Mikeck had.

I suddenly couldn't run Attila too recently. When I hit play, the red and black loading screen would come up but the little blue wheel would just keep spinning and spinning, it would never load the game. All the other Steam games loaded just fine, my drivers were up to date and launching from Rome 2 didn't help.

So I go into the Attila Launcher folder and told it to run as an Administrator. When I then try to launch the game, the window comes up asking if I give it permission to makes changes, I click 'yes' and the same thing Mikeck has comes up. Clicking 'no' just closes the game.

So I go back and cancel the Administrator-Run thing and it still does the same thing. Dammit! What finally worked for me was, going back in the Attila Launch folder and restoring a "Previous Version" from before I tried to fix things and instead made them worse. While in the folder, I noticed the "Compatibility" tab was set to run the launcher in an Operating System I don't have(XP instead of Windows 7). So I fixed this too.

Then when I try to launch the game, I'm back to the red and black launch screen with the never-ending spinning blue wheel. But at least the above problem is corrected. So that's my advice, try to restore a Previous Version of the launcher and make sure it's running in Compatibility Mode with your OS whatever you're using and don't let it run as an Administrator.

As for me, my saga continues. Still can't run the game. This all started about the last game patch and Radious update, so I thought the next one would correct it. But since then I remember installing... Avast AV just before all this began. So that's probably my problem right there. 

I had AVG but for some reason it hated CM Market Garden and so I switched to Avast which promptly began to take-over my computer and do whatever the hell it wanted to with it. Changing my browser and a bunch of other shit. I only now have got it back to where it will do what I tell it to. Other than that it's great for AV software.

Hope this wasn't too long and helps with Vexing Vexadation. Just call me the, "The Vex Doctor".

[Gusington]

I do remember other people reporting an issue with the Attila TW launcher maybe about 6 months ago...looks like I'm cured...

[undercovergeek]

Have you tried disabling mods and running vanilla to see if that's ok?

[Sir Slash]

Yeah, I tried that UCG but no luck. Everything was running fine with just Windows Defender so it probably Avast or maybe they're both running at the same time though I know Defender isn't supposed to do this. Or so other conflict. I'll probably end up just getting rid of Avast and see what that does. I'm trying to finish Rome 2 before returning to Attila but I want it to run for sure.

[Gusington]

What faction are you playing in Rome 2? I'm coming very close to concluding that Attila is unwinnable for me :(

[mikeck]

Thanks slash, I will give it a try. And I have never used mods with attilla. Mainly because up until a few months ago I had to use the Rome launcher

[Sir Slash]

I got 2 games about 180 turns in as the Germans and 100 as Rome. I love the game but like all TW titles the artificial victory conditions make me feel like I have to go where the game wants me to. For Rome I need Britain and Armenia neither of which I would argue was essential to the Roman Empire. Spain and Egypt would make more sense I think. But, hey whatever it's still fun and maybe I'll try for an Economic or Cultural Victory instead. I want to do an ERE Campaign in Attila but I'm kind of scared of how tough it'll be.

[Huw the Poo]

What faction are you playing in Rome 2? I'm coming very close to concluding that Attila is unwinnable for me :(

Just drop the nuke, buddy.  Don't listen to the hippies who say that isn't really winning.

[Gusington]

I would if every faction woukd stop piling on me! Much like real life, my only friends are the Irish and they are about to be snuffed out :/