I try to patch Dominions on Mac, but no luck!
 

I really hate Mac... really hate it, especially when I follow the directions in the readme.txt of the dominions_314 patch. It says move the Dominions 3 application on the desktop, run the "patchme" command. I do that. It seems like it works, I don't get an error, but when I start the game, it says 3.00 at the bottom.

What the hell, how do I do this!?

Re: I try to patch Dominions on Mac, but no luck!
 

this is what I get:

Last login: Fri Feb 29 05:56:43 on ttyp1
/Users/markhickler/Desktop/patchme.command; exit
Welcome to Darwin!
mark-hicklers-computer:~ markhickler$ /Users/markhickler/Desktop/patchme.command; exit
Dominions 3 patcher
Patching Dominions 3, please wait...
... done.
logout
[Process completed]

Re: I try to patch Dominions on Mac, but no luck!
 

Come on yo, there's no mac users out there?

Re: I try to patch Dominions on Mac, but no luck!
 

Dunno. Maybe it did work, but they forgot to put the correct version number on the new patch? I'll upgrade my Mac copy tonite and see if it does the same thing to me.

Re: I try to patch Dominions on Mac, but no luck!
 

Lingchih, there's no bogarus nation. That's how I *know* the update didn't work.

Re: I try to patch Dominions on Mac, but no luck!
 

We have jobs.


Some questions:

-- did you start with v3.00?
-- are you running as an administrative user? there are occasional permissions problems
-- did you move or copy the application to the desktop? if copy, are you sure you ran the version you updated?

Later I will try to give you some Terminal commands to probe this issue more.

Re: I try to patch Dominions on Mac, but no luck!
 

http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/eek.gif
Yes.Most likely.I installed the application by clicking "Dominions" on the desktop, it installed. The folder is somewhere else, but the "Dominions" is on the desktop. I tried moving both the folder and the "Dominions" to the desktop. Nothing worked so far.

Re: I try to patch Dominions on Mac, but no luck!
 

Hmm. I have a Mac and had no trouble patching.

Have you double checked your permissions? The first time I tried to patch Dom2 on a mac, I could not do it because I had not changed the permissions. If you click command-i on the dominions 3.app, you'll bring up the info on the .app, and you can make sure you have read & write permissions. Otherwise, the patch will not be able to update the .app file.

If you hate Mac so much, why aren't you using a PC instead? Why torture yourself? http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

Re: I try to patch Dominions on Mac, but no luck!
 

I just installed the patch just fine. Make sure you move both the patching folder to your desktop, and you actual Dom3 app to the desktop. They must both be in the same place. Then run the patcher.command application. It should work.

Re: I try to patch Dominions on Mac, but no luck!
 

If this did not work, then it is probably a problem with patching all the way up from 3.00 to 3.14. You may have to incrementally patch the previous versions, and then up to 3.14. Hopefully this is not the case, since I have no idea where to find the previous patch versions.

Re: I try to patch Dominions on Mac, but no luck!
 

The strange thing is that Argitoth's second post show the output of the patching script, and it shows no errors. If you look at the script in a text editor, it is nothing more than a bunch of file copies. Presumably the reason you move the application to the desktop is to make the file paths predictable.

Since the entire application is replaced, one would expect you could start from whatever version you like. On the other hand, it is plausible that some associated resources (maps, sounds, unit data) might not be in the last patch. But the fact that he's seeing v3.00 in the game is a bigger issue.

Argitoth: with the Dominions application still on the Desktop (the actual application, not the folder), why don't you try opening the Terminal (from your Utilities folder) and typing this:

~/Desktop/Dominions3.app/Contents/MacOS/Dominions3 -v

This will give you another version number, to verify that it wasn't updated.

You haven't renamed the actual application, have you? That might screw up the patching.

Re: I try to patch Dominions on Mac, but no luck!
 

I haven't renamed anything. I know the patch didn't work because I don't have the bogarus nation.

Yes, I hate mac. I love my PC too much to have it on 24/7.

Re: I try to patch Dominions on Mac, but no luck!
 

Oh, I got it to work. I have to move the .app back into the dominions3 folder. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...s/rolleyes.gif

Re: I try to patch Dominions on Mac, but no luck!
 

[edited] OK, glad it was something simple.

Re: I try to patch Dominions on Mac, but no luck!
 

Well, I have a new problem. I cannot connect to the server on the mac nor can I connect the mac to its own server.

However, I am able to connect to the mac server with LAN IP, but not WAN IP. The ports are forwarded. However, if I try to forward the ports (going to 192.168.1.1 in the web browser) and check those checkboxes (to enable the ports) I save settings and the checkmarks are never there. However, the checkmarks remain if I go there on the PC.

Is it because MAC just doesn't show checkmarks? Nevertheless, the port forwarding doesn't seem to work on the mac.

If I go to whatismyip.com it shows 70.176.220.23 for both the mac and the pc. Is that normal? Mac is using the same port of 4334. Its LAN IP is different, .103 instead .100. I already enabled port 4334 for .103.

Re: I try to patch Dominions on Mac, but no luck!
 

I haven't played or hosted network games on my Mac, sorry.

You might want to start a new thread, or change the title on this one, so people can see the new problem.

Re: I try to patch Dominions on Mac, but no luck!
 

This problem is beyond what anyone could help me with on the forum. It's a network issue.

Re: I try to patch Dominions on Mac, but no luck!
 

That's normal. The router/firewall connects WAN to LAN if you set up port forwarding, but it does not forward traffic originating from LAN to LAN. This is a design issue of port forwarding or limitation of those cheap hardware routers.

You can only check that from an external source from the WAN. Not from your LAN.

That's normal, too. The web server reports which IP on the internet (WAN) connected to it. It should never get any info about internal IPs from LANs.

Re: I try to patch Dominions on Mac, but no luck!
 

THE PROBLEM IS SOLVED!

http://shup.com/Shup/26538/forwarded.PNG

YOU CANNOT OPEN THE SAME PORT FOR MULTIPLE LAN IPs

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