I like this mod but I find the Egyptian background a little claustrophobic. Maybe zoom out a little or something? Also, the graak background shows the edge of the map in the top right of the screen :(

@MultiVerse
I am sorry to hear that. The mod works correctly on all test machines I have it installed on. The issue is local to your computer and is unlikely to be related to my mod.

If you cannot remove a mod through the mod manager, try removing the mod by first going into the AoM installation directory and removing it from the mods folder. After that, if you have unsubscribed, any deleted mods should no longer be active.

this mod sux, it keeps hanging in my mod manager eventhouggh i unsunscribe and disable ...

@Patrick Bateman
I am planning on adding the rest of original backgrounds as well as a number of entirely new ones.
Right now I'm working on something that I believe is of higher importance, but I'll come back and release updates to this one soon.

Thank you so much for this mod (some variety is very much appreciated)

Could you also add in the orginal AOM and Titans backgrounds in the cycle ?

@TuRkEy
I have tried this mod on a clean installation of Windows. Everything works flawlessly. I believe the problem has to do with your particular setup.

We can instruct AoM:EX to give us a detailed log about what's going on with the mods. Enable my mod, try to launch. After the crash do this:

Inside of this file:
..\Steam\SteamApps\common\Age of Mythology\startup\ user.cfg
( If you dont have it, create it)
add a line:
+modmanagerdetailed

Run the game and it will produce a very detailed log file inside of:
..\Age of Mythology\Logs
Inside you'll find (potentially very large) list of directories. Sort by date and go into the most recent folder (should have the time on it when exactly u ran the game). Open file mod-manager.txt and paste its contents on http://pastebin.com/ so I could take a look at what it says. If u did everything correctly that file will have thousands of lines.

Afterwards u can remove that line with the +.

@2CR
Windows 7
GeForce GTX 470
SSD
Latest official build.

The game crashes at around 25% progress on the loading screen. It attempts to reload the game without any errors and boots up the launcher once again. Perhaps it's a conflict with another modification? I can try disabling the rest in a bit.

I must say there are like 10 presets for the menu screen int he scenario foler which arent used. You couls use those!

@TuRkEy
Alright. I'll be doing some tests on various hardware configurations later in the day.
Could you provide me with your system specs?

- Operating System
- CPU (processor)
- GPU (graphics card)
- hard drive or solid state?
- AoM:EX version

Also - at what point does it crash and *how* does it crash? Exit to Windows? Completely freezes? Game never loads? Is there any sound or anything at all going on.

@2CR Yep, unfortunately it narrowed it down to this specific mod, disabled the mods one by one until I got to this one. After unsubscribing and removing this mod, the game loaded normally.

@TuRkEy
There is a Steam Bootstrapper bug that causes games to freeze/crash on launch. Did you verify that it is indeed the mod that causes the crash? I'd appreciate if you could verify.

Unfortunately this causes my game to crash on start-up

awesome idea, thanks!

@Honorable_D
Thanks for the comment. Yes that is somewhat of a bug. It's actually been around since original AoM. You can select units even in regular AoM:EX menu. It is caused by the user interface layer not having large enough of a span. I could prevent the units from being controllable, but I think I'll leave it. Unless I find that it bothers a lot of people :)

Issue. You know with widescreen you can see further to the sides? Well, units far to the sides are actually clickable and controllable if they are in the extra space a widescreen monitor gives!

I like it. The default AoM:EE background was a little uninspired I felt. Nice job.

Looks really good