Gold Patch installing problem - Page 3

PvK · #21 April 11th, 2002, 12:50 AM

I had the installer fail too - complained it wasn't Version 1.60, even though it was. I had mods installed, but not on the main files.

PvK

PvK · #22 April 11th, 2002, 12:52 AM

quote:
Originally posted by derb:
I installed the patch and now when I try to play a current game I am told, "Invalid data files - the files currently being used don't match the files used when the game was started. Please check with your host to get the correct data files". Since I *am* the host I re-downloaded the files via the PBW game admin screen but I am still getting the error. Do I have to make yet another install of 1.6 for the sake of my current games?

Select Host instead of your empire, start the game as Host, and press the "end turn" button. It should then launch you as your usual player empire.

PvK

RabidFan · #23 April 11th, 2002, 01:19 AM

I had the installer fail as well. I removed the game and reinstalled. Patched up no problems.

I had the old SEIV still on my drive, removed it as well before I retried the intall.....

I will note after I removed the previous Versions the "Scanning for Game" part went much faster.

Sinapus · #24 April 11th, 2002, 02:00 AM

When I installed the patch it initially failed, then I noticed it was picking the old SEIV game so I changed the directory to the SEIV Gold directory (both are on my computer's C-drive) and it installed fine.

Marco · #25 April 11th, 2002, 10:09 AM

I can confirm that the Mephisto's suggestion works, the patch installer accept to upgrade a fresh Version 1.60 without any change and after it is possible to bring back changes if you save and store it in a separate directory. It is possible even to restore saved games.

For Mephisto: if this can help you for the next TDM-ModPack Version release, after installing the patch all works fine except a error message displayed about EarthAlliance_AI_Construction_Units.txt, this message say: "could not find field "Percentage of Resources to Reserve for Unit Construction" in record 1". The same message is not displayed for Narn Regime.

Thanks and best regards.
Marco.

derb · #26 April 11th, 2002, 10:16 AM

PvK's suggestion didn't work for me, annoyingly. Shrapnel should patch its patch so that Users don't have to jump through all those hoops to get existing games working again!

Q · #27 April 11th, 2002, 02:57 PM

The only problem I had so far with the patch is that the installer proposed the original SE IV (and not SE IV Gold) to be patched, which is of course impossible. I can load and continue SE IV Gold Version 1.60 games, start new games and use my heavily modded own Version without problems until now.
One small quation however: where is the "AI_Construction_Units.txt file" ??
I could not find any.

Tampa_Gamer · #28 April 11th, 2002, 03:00 PM

quote:
Originally posted by Q:

One small quation however: where is the "AI_Construction_Units.txt file" ??
I could not find any.

Q - it is placed in the main SE4 directory as an example.

Mephisto · #29 April 11th, 2002, 03:13 PM

Actually, it's in the folder "samples" IIRC.

Richard · #30 April 11th, 2002, 03:29 PM

Actually we didn't write the patch

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It looks like most of the problems are due to multiple copies being on the same PC, or having both Gold and the original on the same machine. Check and see which it is suggesting when it tries to install.

quote:
Originally posted by derb:
PvK's suggestion didn't work for me, annoyingly. Shrapnel should patch its patch so that Users don't have to jump through all those hoops to get existing games working again!