Hi, I just bought the fall of the samurai expansion on Impulse, and received a copy of Shogun 2 for free. FOTS works fine. Everything starts up, and everything works. I installed the Shogun 2 main game as well so that I could use the blood pack and extra units, but whenever I start the game, only the FOTS campaign shows up. Shogun 2 is faded out. I've reinstalled the game. Impulse and Steam both say it's installed. I have no idea what's wrong. I'd like to play the original game as well, but it won't show up. Any idea what's wrong?

Checked the Impulse forums to see if anyone had the same issue? Seems like it would be a logical thing to do considering you bought the game there, right?

I would start there. Just a thought.

This is bull. I can't find any mention of shogun 2 or it's expansion on the forums. It's like they don't have a section for the total war games.

Steam forums?

Okay, I restarted steam, and it didn't change. I restarted the computer and it didn't change. I have no idea what's wrong. It's like the game is installed, but it isn't. Steam says it's installed, so does Impulse. But no matter what application or shortcut I use, I can only access the expansion campaign. I installed the expansion first. Could that be the problem?

Ok unistall the entire game and install Shogun 2 first and then the expansion and see what happens.

Well, I am, but it's going to take about 9 hours to redownload everything. And then FOTS is a much bigger file. So it'll be tomorrow night before I even play.

Impulse ha ha ha...

If you haven't downloaded it all again yet then you could simply try the following:
- close Steam
- go to steam/steamapps/common and move both Fall* and Shogun2 directories out of the Steamapps folder to somewhere else on the drive.
- restart Steam and make sure that neither game is installed. Delete them if need be.
- close Steam.
- Move Shogun2 back in there and restart Steam. Let it check the integrity of the cache to make sure that everything's downloaded that should be (right click / properties) and then try running it again.

*or whatever it''s called in there.

Maybe try the advice in the last post in this thread ?

What the hell? I uninstalled everything, then reinstalled ONLY Shogun 2, and it still says fall of the samurai is the only one playable! I haven't even reinstalled it yet!