
This is a normal steam feature, presumably provided to protect users from other games that have more powerful command line options, and unfortunately seems to be impossible to work around: you'll need to open steam and hit the "OK" button whenever you want to boot up the mod.Back when we originally announced Total War: WARHAMMER, we explained that we wouldn’t be able to support the game with official mod tools, as unlike other TW games, it wasn’t just our game we were making this time. You'll probably find that steam has popped up with a notification checking that you want to open RTW with these command line instructions. Steam RTW Version: I double clicked my shortcut and it did nothing! If the problem persists, please post here with screenshots of your folder structure and your shortcut like the ones provided above.

You should now be able to double-click the shortcut and run your mod, though there are some common problems in the next section:Īll RTW Versions: I double clicked my shortcut and it booted the original game, not my mod!Įither you put the mod in the wrong place, or you wrote the command line wrong. ico file if the modders have provided any. Note: For some mods, whilst doing this you can also use the "Change Icon" button, navigate to your mod folder, and change from the standard RTW icon to a different. modname must be the name of the mod folder, and must be AFTER the closing quotes, like so (in this example a number of other command-line additions (-nm, -ne and -show_err) have been used, which you can ignore:

At the end of the box that says "path" or "target", type -mod:modname. Go to your desktop and right-click on the new shortcut Make a new Rome - Total War shortcut by right-clicking on RTW.exe and then creating a desktop shortcut Rome - Total War/modname/modname/data, for example, WILL NOT WORK, and often happens as a result of people getting a folder created by the unzipping process that surrounds the actual mod folder. Please remember that the mod's data folder should be exactly ONE LEVEL below the mod folder.
