has anyone else experienced a really long installation process. i think it stopped at updating core games assets. but i dont want to shut if off cuz i dont know if it is still installing or it froze. (sounds like my tower is running)

It takes quite a while, because it updates your original Medieval 2 Total War, and then it has to install 3 new campaigns

i am having a similar problem and i waited for a couple of hours and the installation was still stuck at core game assets... should i leave it overnight or is something wrong?

okay i was not clear the first time, when i put in the disc and choose the install option a popup says that it cannot install medieval 1.00 to 1.03 so i asumed i needed to get the 1.02 update and sure enough i went into the discs files and there is a file titled "update 2" so i started that update assuming it was the one i needed and then that is the one that gets stuck at some point, it is not in the regular installation because i cant even initiate the regular installation so what does that mean?

Apparently mine didnt install the necessary files for it and now it wont even start up. I dont want to uninstall. Do you think i need to download the patch for it to work?