Gold Patch installing problem

Resident Alien 2 · #1 April 11th, 2002, 12:15 AM

No luck installing gold patch 1 here.

I renamed my original SE4 and the install program found the directory with Gold Version but told me I didn't have 1.60. But I do.

I have 1.60 installed plus a modpack directory with TDM and mounts mod. I may have modified the settings.txt file in data.

Mephisto · #2 April 11th, 2002, 12:35 AM

I would guess that most of the problems are related to changed data files. Make a backup of your modified files and then do a clean reinstall. Patch it. Copy the patched game to a secure location. Copy your modified files into the new patched game folder. It should work now.

baetis · #3 April 11th, 2002, 12:43 AM

I too had to uninstall/reinstall/patch. I don't have a single mod installed nor have i opened any files and edited them. Maybe they are doing doing a diff on the program settings (like CD music on/off) or something. of course, i just pulled that out of my ***...

[ 10 April 2002: Message edited by: baetis ]

PvK · #4 April 11th, 2002, 12:50 AM

I had the installer fail too - complained it wasn't Version 1.60, even though it was. I had mods installed, but not on the main files.

PvK

PvK · #5 April 11th, 2002, 12:52 AM

quote:
Originally posted by derb:
I installed the patch and now when I try to play a current game I am told, "Invalid data files - the files currently being used don't match the files used when the game was started. Please check with your host to get the correct data files". Since I *am* the host I re-downloaded the files via the PBW game admin screen but I am still getting the error. Do I have to make yet another install of 1.6 for the sake of my current games?

Select Host instead of your empire, start the game as Host, and press the "end turn" button. It should then launch you as your usual player empire.

PvK

RabidFan · #6 April 11th, 2002, 01:19 AM

I had the installer fail as well. I removed the game and reinstalled. Patched up no problems.

I had the old SEIV still on my drive, removed it as well before I retried the intall.....

I will note after I removed the previous Versions the "Scanning for Game" part went much faster.

Sinapus · #7 April 11th, 2002, 02:00 AM

When I installed the patch it initially failed, then I noticed it was picking the old SEIV game so I changed the directory to the SEIV Gold directory (both are on my computer's C-drive) and it installed fine.