Experimental winSPWW2 EXE--May 15, 2018

[carp]

After a severe illness I am back and amazed at what I've forgotten. I'm trying to download and install this experimental patch on a purchased copy upgraded to the most recent versions. When I get to unzipping I get a message that says "the program can't start WINVFX8.dll is missing." The it tells me to reinstall the program. Are they referring to the game or the Winzip app?

I don't speak computer much but I've played the game since the original SP. Any advice would be appreciated.

[Mobhack]

Originally Posted by carp

After a severe illness I am back and amazed at what I've forgotten. I'm trying to download and install this experimental patch on a purchased copy upgraded to the most recent versions. When I get to unzipping I get a message that says "the program can't start WINVFX8.dll is missing." The it tells me to reinstall the program. Are they referring to the game or the Winzip app?

I don't speak computer much but I've played the game since the original SP. Any advice would be appreciated.

I just checked. This experimental EXE is supplied as a zip file, not an installer.

The error you get will be given if you extracted the game exe supplied to some random place and double clicked on it. None of the support files (maps, DLLs OOBS, etc) will be there of course!.

Follow the instructions given by Don in post #1 of this thread to install, and you will be fine.

1) Have a working copy of the game, patched and up to date
2) Rename the game exe in there as described in post 1, if desired
3) Unzip the zip file, ensuring that the extraction path points to the game main folder (easiest way - firstly copy the zip to the folder and then use the "extract here" command)