WinSPMBT v5.5-- NOW AVAILABLE

[Hermit]

Originally Posted by Hermit

First of all, thanks to everyone who was involved, but especially to Don and Andy for their continued work on this FANTASTIC game, and of course, the new patch.

That being said, I thought smoke round replenishment (after battles) for formation-leader tanks in generated campaigns was going to be one of the fixes in this release, but I didn't see that mentioned. I play almost exclusively pre-TI games, so that issue will affect my game play.

Did that fix not make it into this patch, or is it just not mentioned in the list of improvements?

I'm playing my first new scenario with the smoke rounds. This is a great improvement! Just one question: ALL my tanks have smoke rounds now. I thought the fix only applied to "0" label/command tanks. Are all tanks supposed to have smoke rounds? I'm currently U.S. Army in 1969.

[DRG]

We changed it to include all tanks

Don

[Warwick]

Thanks for the cool new bunkers!

[Nightblade]

Just noticed this new upgrade, just in time as i was going to dive into a new campaign.

Thank you to everyone involved for so many years of improvements on what is the finest computer wargame i ever played.

[daferg]

I really hate to ask a question because of the number of people that might insult me or make me feel dumber than I normally do. Here it goes....I downloaded the 5.5 patch and I own the CD version of the game. I got confused during the install because it said something along the lines of 'You must download this to a different directory' or something very close to that. My operating system is Vista. Normally I can just download the patch and execute the program. Can anyone give an old Infantryman a hand with this computer talk?

[void1984]

Download the patches wherever you want and install them.

[daferg]

Thank you very much.

[DRG]

Originally Posted by daferg

I really hate to ask a question because of the number of people that might insult me or make me feel dumber than I normally do. Here it goes....I downloaded the 5.5 patch and I own the CD version of the game. I got confused during the install because it said something along the lines of 'You must download this to a different directory' or something very close to that. My operating system is Vista. Normally I can just download the patch and execute the program. Can anyone give an old Infantryman a hand with this computer talk?

We have been recommending that IF you are using VISTA or Win7 the games be RE-INSTALLED outside of the PROGRAM FILES folder. Some version of vista and all version of win7 can do strange things to the files when installed under program files.

So, The existing file structure on all the installers and patches is c:\program files\shrapnel games\The camo workshop\winspxxx

And we HIGHLY RECOMMEND that if you have VISTA or Win7 you reinstall the main game and all the patches to something like this

c:\shrapnel games\The camo workshop\winspxxx

As you can see that is easily accomplished simply by deleting "program files" from the path

YES, it's a PITA. Blame Microsoft. Everything worked fine until they decided to treat anything in Program files differently than any other folder. However, if you have the main game and patches handy re-installing doesn't take too long and then you won't have any problems.

So NO, it's not as simple as "Download the patches wherever you want and install them". The main V1 game has to be in place first then all the patches re-installed . DO NOT simply copy the files out of program files or you will have trouble


Don

[lee wykes]

Hi,

This is possibly a silly question but here goes. I have downloaded this game from Shrapnel Games. Do I have to download all the patches as well or are they included in the download?

Many Thanks,

Lee Wykes

[DRG]

You need to DL and install all patches in order to bring the game up to date. The patches MUST be installed oldest to newest



Don