1.84 upgrade and a newbies request for help.

tbontob · #1 January 29th, 2003, 04:10 AM

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Originally posted by Greybeard:
I just made a new folder called "Space Empires IV Gold 1.84" and copied all of the files from my file called "Space Empires IV Gold 1.78"

I then unzipped the patch file into the new folder and ran the install.

I made a shortcut to the new .exe file and drug it to my desktop.

Worked great, all of the .emp files and races files are there, and I haven't had any problems.

The copying took about 12 minutes, but that's not too bad on my badly outdated computer.

Greybeard

Greybeard

This sounds like the best idea yet!

Both files will then have identical sets of data.

You can play PBW games on the old 1.78 game.

If a PBW game changes to 1.84, everything is there in the new 1.84 file to play under 1.84!

A good tip!

gravey101 · #2 January 29th, 2003, 05:14 PM

When I try to do the upgrade it tells me that the Version on my system is incorrect and had to be 1.67, or 1.78 etc. I know the Version is 1.78 so I dont know what it is that is messing it up. Am running XP. Anyone got any ideas ?

Ruatha · #3 January 29th, 2003, 05:23 PM

Did it for me aswell when I tried to copy the directory.
It worked when I made a clean install though and patched that one, after that you can copy over any mods and races.

gravey101 · #4 January 29th, 2003, 05:26 PM

I was hoping that would not be the solution. My original copy of Gold suffered an unfortunate accident while I was on the road so reinstalling isn't going to work, at least not in the short term.

Pablo · #5 January 29th, 2003, 05:33 PM

Copying se4g directory and patching it worked fine for me

Wardad · #6 January 29th, 2003, 08:11 PM

Gravey101,

I only have Win98. But it sounds like you might have a registry issue. It could be confused by more than one entry for SE4.exe. So simplify the situation.

First back up your folder by copying it on the hard drive under a new name.

Change the SE4.exe names to remove them from the registry as SE4.exe.

Just to be sure, restart the system.

Return the SE4.exe file you want to use to SE4.exe name.

Launch it so it gets registered and close it down.

Now try patching it.

BTW, There is some type of copy protection signature (deliberate checksum errors) in some of the stock race picture bitmaps. It may have been SE3, b4gold, or only CD related. Apparantly no one is having problems with it recently.

geoschmo · #7 January 29th, 2003, 09:07 PM

I have the same problem every time a new patch comes out. But I only have the problem on my work PC. I have to install fresh from the CD. On my home PC and on the PBW server I have no problem. I never have figured out what it is either, but I'll try the registry trick you mentioned Wardad.

Geoschmo