Dominions 3 Version 3.04 Now Available!

[J Henry Waugh]

Followed the readme instructions but it's not working.

Console output shows a bunch of "permission denied" messages.

Tried setting permissions to read + write but still, no luck.

Code:

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chmod: ../Dominions3.app/Contents/Resources/rawsound: Operation not permitted

chmod: ../Dominions3.app/Contents/Resources/res.trs: Operation not permitted

chmod: ../Dominions3.app/Contents/Resources/skybox1.tga: Operation not permitted

chmod: ../Dominions3.app/Contents/Resources/smallfont.trs: Operation not permitted

chmod: ../Dominions3.app/Contents/Resources/tile.tga: Operation not permitted

chmod: ../Dominions3.app/Contents/Resources/trees.r3f: Operation not permitted

chmod: ../Dominions3.app/Contents/Resources/tutdata/early_marverni.trn: Operation not permitted

chmod: ../Dominions3.app/Contents/Resources/tutdata/ftherlnd: Operation not permitted

chmod: ../Dominions3.app/Contents/Resources/tutdata: Operation not permitted

chmod: ../Dominions3.app/Contents/Resources: Operation not permitted

chmod: ../Dominions3.app/Contents: Operation not permitted

cp: ../Dominions3.app/Contents/MacOS/Dominions3: Permission denied

cp: ../Dominions3.app/Contents/Resources/res.trs: Permission denied

cp: ../Dominions3.app/Contents/Resources/misc.trs: Permission denied

cp: ../Dominions3.app/Contents/Resources/flag.trs: Permission denied

cp: ../Dominions3.app/Contents/Resources/army12.trs: Permission denied

usage: cp [-R [-H | -L | -P]] [-f | -i | -n] [-pv] src target

       cp [-R [-H | -L | -P]] [-f | -i | -n] [-pv] src1 ... srcN directory

cp: ../Dominions3.app/Contents/Resources/maps/urraparrand.tga: Permission denied

cp: ../Dominions3.app/Contents/Resources/maps/urraparrand.map: Permission denied

cp: ../Dominions3.app/Contents/Resources/maps/dawn.tga: Permission denied

cp: ../Dominions3.app/Contents/Resources/maps/dawn.map: Permission denied

cp: ../Dominions3.app/Contents/Resources/battlemaps/cave3.d3m: Permission denied

... done.

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[Ygorl]

"Get Info" on the Dominions3.app and make sure that you have permissions to read and write. If you do, do the same on the Dominions 3 folder, and hit the button (under the "Details:" tab) to "Apply to enclosed items..."

[J Henry Waugh]

Ygorl said:
"Get Info" on the Dominions3.app and make sure that you have permissions to read and write. If you do, do the same on the Dominions 3 folder, and hit the button (under the "Details:" tab) to "Apply to enclosed items..."

Have done that, but still, same results.

[NTJedi]

J Henry Waugh...
Have you tried using a different login account which has full rights? Based on the errors it definitely looks like some type of permissions/access issue.

[J Henry Waugh]

NTJedi said:

J Henry Waugh...
Have you tried using a different login account which has full rights? Based on the errors it definitely looks like some type of permissions/access issue.

Am using account with full admin rights.

Have partially succeeded in installing. I had to "Open Package Contents" on Dominions 3 folder (after moving App to desktop, which is the most bizarre patch instruction sequence I've ever executed) and apply read + write to "enclosed" items. That eliminated about 75% of the error messages and now when I start the game it shows 3.04.

However, it is running extremely slow (even slower than I remember running on my old G4 PB). And it looks like that might be due to the message output where SDL stuff was not successfully written to (even though it in same place as rest of stuff and I verified those folders all had read+write).

I don't understand why the patch process has to be so convoluted (it's even gotten worse than Dom2 where I had to reinstall original version before applying patch on each patch version). Everything else, you just click on the patcher or simply drag an icon over to /Applications.

I love Dom3 but at this point I am extremely frustrated and disappointed over spending a bundle of money (at least to me and my state of finances at present time) for a game that I can't even play unless I spend more time eliminating and reverting…