1.84 upgrade and a newbies request for help.

[Wardad]

A handy work around to the problem:

Rename any SE4 folders:
ex. I have SE4g167, se4g170, etc...

Do a temporary rename SEIV.exe (or is it SE4.exe, I'm not home now) program file in those folders.
I follow the same name style as above.

Now install a fresh copy of SE4 from Gold CD.
Copy the patch to the new SE4 folder.
Patch It.

Now you can change the names of the folders or SE4.exe.
Since I use MODLAUNCHER, I will return all SE4.exe file to it's original name.
Then you may want to copy MOD folders and game folders over to the new folder.

[Greybeard]

I just made a new folder called "Space Empires IV Gold 1.84" and copied all of the files from my file called "Space Empires IV Gold 1.78"

I then unzipped the patch file into the new folder and ran the install.

I made a shortcut to the new .exe file and drug it to my desktop.

Worked great, all of the .emp files and races files are there, and I haven't had any problems.

The copying took about 12 minutes, but that's not too bad on my badly outdated computer.

Greybeard

[tbontob]

Originally posted by Greybeard:
I just made a new folder called "Space Empires IV Gold 1.84" and copied all of the files from my file called "Space Empires IV Gold 1.78"

I then unzipped the patch file into the new folder and ran the install.

I made a shortcut to the new .exe file and drug it to my desktop.

Worked great, all of the .emp files and races files are there, and I haven't had any problems.

The copying took about 12 minutes, but that's not too bad on my badly outdated computer.

Greybeard

Greybeard

This sounds like the best idea yet!

Both files will then have identical sets of data.

You can play PBW games on the old 1.78 game.

If a PBW game changes to 1.84, everything is there in the new 1.84 file to play under 1.84!

A good tip!

[gravey101]

When I try to do the upgrade it tells me that the Version on my system is incorrect and had to be 1.67, or 1.78 etc. I know the Version is 1.78 so I dont know what it is that is messing it up. Am running XP. Anyone got any ideas ?

[Ruatha]

Did it for me aswell when I tried to copy the directory.
It worked when I made a clean install though and patched that one, after that you can copy over any mods and races.

[gravey101]

I was hoping that would not be the solution. My original copy of Gold suffered an unfortunate accident while I was on the road so reinstalling isn't going to work, at least not in the short term.

[Pablo]

Copying se4g directory and patching it worked fine for me