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April 5th, 2008, 06:45 AM
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Re: Installing SE IV on New Machine. What a Night
No the drive is not any where near being full. The system is new. The drive has nearly 900 gigs left. It is the only archive that is doing this. odd.
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April 5th, 2008, 02:16 PM
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Re: Installing SE IV on New Machine. What a Night
What OS is that?
Try installing to c:\games\SE instead of program files.
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April 6th, 2008, 12:20 AM
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Re: Installing SE IV on New Machine. What a Night
Atrocities: I had EXACTLY that same problem. the only way I fixed it was to uninstall, and then NOT install it to the default folder. (As per SJ's suggestion, I installed it in C: Games) After that, it worked fine.
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Re: Installing SE IV on New Machine. What a Night
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What OS is that?
Try installing to c:\games\SE instead of program files.
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My problem may be similar in nature.
I keep several identities on my PC (OS:Win XP Home) but I prefer to play games as a plain user, not with Admin privileges. At the moment I have transferred SEIV (with a solo game in progress) over the home LAN from my old (creak, groan) Win98SE machine satisfactorily and it's playable *IF* I login as an Admin-level ID.
How do I install SEIV (and all the mods I have) keeping the game engine in H:\Program Files\Games|Space Empires but saving my games and notes and other stuff in ...\Document&Settings\UserXXXX\Games|Space Empires ... ??
Can this even be done?
I've tried various edits of the PIF unsuccessfully but I suspect that I need a list of files that HAVE to be writable in my User location.
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August 29th, 2008, 06:58 AM
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Re: Installing SE IV on New Machine. What a Night
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I keep several identities on my PC (OS:Win XP Home) but I prefer to play games as a plain user, not with Admin privileges. At the moment I have transferred SEIV (with a solo game in progress) over the home LAN from my old (creak, groan) Win98SE machine satisfactorily and it's playable *IF* I login as an Admin-level ID.
How do I install SEIV (and all the mods I have) keeping the game engine in H:\Program Files\Games|Space Empires but saving my games and notes and other stuff in ...\Document&Settings\UserXXXX\Games|Space Empires ... ??
Can this even be done?
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I imagine it can, in theory, but the user account that I set up for myself under WinXP Pro was so frustrating to use that I eventually gave up and deleted the user account.
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September 1st, 2008, 08:15 PM
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Re: Installing SE IV on New Machine. What a Night
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How do I install SEIV (and all the mods I have) keeping the game engine in H:\Program Files\Games|Space Empires but saving my games and notes and other stuff in ...\Document&Settings\UserXXXX\Games|Space Empires ... ??
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You could probably create a bunch of NTFS fake symlinks (forget what they are called) for the various folders (eg: savegame, maps), but its more hassle than it could possibly be worth. Just install the game outside of Program Files and you'll be ok. |
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September 1st, 2008, 11:41 PM
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Re: Installing SE IV on New Machine. What a Nightmare
Thank you.
That's ultimately what I have done but I had regarded it as only a workaround. If there's no definitive body of knowledeg on the topic then that's what I shall have to stick to.
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December 29th, 2008, 01:17 PM
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Re: Installing SE IV on New Machine. What a Nightmare
Hi all, long time me no post 
Just went thru same deal getting the B5 mod to work again. 
Thanks to those who worked on the mod after I quit it. 
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Re: Installing SE IV on New Machine. What a Night
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No the drive is not any where near being full. The system is new. The drive has nearly 900 gigs left. It is the only archive that is doing this. odd.
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April 6th, 2008, 12:48 AM
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Re: Installing SE IV on New Machine. What a Night
Yes, terabyte HDDs are upon us, and dropping in price.  |
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