Transfer of game to another PC

JR77 · #1 June 14th, 2009, 11:20 AM

Dear forum,

I have recently become the host of a small PBEM with a couple of friends and have been hosting from my laptop due to travelling. Now I want to host from my desktop and both have the map, pretender, newest dom3 version, and CBM 1.5.

After copying the savedgames folder to the desktop, the game appears on the list, but when I select the game, there are no nations on the list. Please advise.

JR77 · #2 June 15th, 2009, 07:20 AM

Anyone know if this is possible?

lch · #3 June 15th, 2009, 07:56 AM

It sounds like you didn't copy everything. You need the nations' .trn files for the host, and the .2h files for the player moves.

Ballbarian · #4 June 15th, 2009, 07:58 AM

It is possible. Instead of just moving the saved games folder, you might try copying the entire dominions folder over from your laptop. I wonder if you are experiencing some kind of version conflict.

MaxWilson · #5 June 15th, 2009, 10:58 AM

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Originally Posted by JR77

Dear forum,

I have recently become the host of a small PBEM with a couple of friends and have been hosting from my laptop due to travelling. Now I want to host from my desktop and both have the map, pretender, newest dom3 version, and CBM 1.5.

After copying the savedgames folder to the desktop, the game appears on the list, but when I select the game, there are no nations on the list. Please advise.

It sounds like you copied *only* the savedgames folder. You need to copy the whole dom3 folder to the desktop. Dom3 always looks for saved games relative to the executable, so if the game is installed at

c:\Users\Bob\Desktop\Dom3

it will look for saved games at

c:\Users\Bob\Desktop\Dom3\savedgames

and mods at

c:\Users\Bob\Desktop\Dom3\mods

-Max

JR77 · #6 June 15th, 2009, 12:30 PM

Edit: Sounds like you perhaps misunderstood my post. I am not moving stuff to the /desktop folder, but from a laptop computer to a desktop (stationary) computer. They both run same versions of Dom3 and CBM.

Thanks for the info though

MaxWilson · #7 June 15th, 2009, 04:07 PM

Hmm, that's weird. You've got the ftherlnd file and the .trn files, right?

-Max

Gandalf Parker · #8 June 15th, 2009, 06:26 PM

Is it the same operating system on both machines?

JR77 · #9 June 16th, 2009, 01:08 AM

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Originally Posted by MaxWilson

Hmm, that's weird. You've got the ftherlnd file and the .trn files, right?

-Max

Yes, I have the entire /NameOfTheGame folder with .2h, .trn, and ftherlnd.

They are both running WinXP. Different languages though, one danish and the other english. The games are also installed to different partitions. The laptop has the default c:\... location and the desktop d:\games\dom3. I would not think any of that mattered though.

But what I understand from your comments is, that it should be possible, even as host of an mp game, to transfer a game from on pc to another?

Thanks,
JR

MaxWilson · #10 June 16th, 2009, 01:49 PM

I've never done it[1], and Gandalf's idea about the operating system may be spot on, but yes, I think it should be possible to transfer games between PCs. There are forum members who do that kind of thing regularly with SP games while travelling. I don't know about MP hosts, though--if it's play-by-email then obviously yes, if it's over IP then I don't know.

-Max

[1] Transferring a saved game between computers, that is. I believe I have transferred Dom3 as a whole but without keeping any saved games.