Someone Please Help. FW Installation Troubles.

[Eyn]

did the errors/crash was when u install FW addon ?

close all residents programs (CTRL+ALT+DEL) except explorer.exe then retry. it should works like that

[Cedric Greene]

MGE did come with many scenarios on the disk, unfortunatly most of them are copyrighted by Microprose/Hasbro/Infogrames and would not be legal for me to distribute I believe. Anyway besides the legality the scenarios files are quite big (counting the .wav files) and would have made the patch massive. As for Giga maps you should be able to find them downloadable on this site as well as CFC.

[cinch]

Thanks, Cedric! It seems to have worked now... I get the multiplayer menus and such...

A question, though: Were there any other big changes on the menu screen? Such as: more scenarios, or map options, or somesuch? Just curious, because I have nothing like that (i.e. stilly only rome and wwii, scenario-wise), but I thought I had heard that there were such things as gigamaps in MGE...

I'm probably just confused, but if you could humour me, I'd appreciate it.

Thanks again!

[Cedric Greene]

cinch, I think it's most likely a problem with either the labels.txt or the menu.txt . Also could be from using the older version of the patch from CFC instead of the newer version from my homepage, http://hometown.aol.com/cedricgreene/

[cinch]

I've tried a couple of times to download the MGE update thingy from CFC, but it never works... I download it into the same directory as Civ2, and then open Civ2, and it says "Civ 2 Multiplayer Gold" along the top and on the menus, but when I click on any of the new options (like "multiplayer"), it just takes me to something old like the Hall Of Fame...

What's up with that?

Am I downloading the wrong file? Am I doing it wrong? Anything?

[klesh]

Bah, I got all the scenarios I need in other places.

I did end up going with the patch, and yup, worked like a charm! Thanks to the both of you.

You see, the MGE version of this scenario (in which you play as 2 civs) can only be played as a hotseat game. This means you aren't seeing enemy moves, which makes the German armoured counterattacks upon the beachheads awefully lethal. With the FW version, it plas as any other game would, with a full view of my boys getting slaughtered.

Thanks again.

-FMK.

[Cedric Greene]

From what I've heard the installer in FW can cause problems with other programs in Windows causing the error you are describing. A fix is to Ctrl+Alt+Del and close all programs except explorer and systray and then install. Usually this is enough to get it to install or like the others said you can use my patch but that won't install any of the scenarios.

[klesh]

Ahhh, downloading the bugger now. Hopefully this does it.

-FMK.

[Six Thousand Year Old Man]

Originally posted by Field Marshal Klesh
wow, so then there must be a CivII-->FW patch somewhere?

-FMK.

Scroll up to my previous message. Look on CivFan>Downloads. At the top of the page is a link to 'Cedrics patches'. Look on that page.

[klesh]

wow, so then there must be a CivII-->FW patch somewhere?

-FMK.

[Six Thousand Year Old Man]

What I did was install 2.42 (Civ2 basic off the CD) 3 times, and then installed MGE into one of those installs and FW into the another. Voila, 3 versions, to go with my ToT and the scenarios...

[klesh]

I can't seem to find the patch for FW at Apolyton either.
I assume installing FW is going to create extra directories and such, so I wouldn't even have those to extract the FW Update zip into.

-FMK.

[Six Thousand Year Old Man]

OK. Look for Cedrics patches. That will take you to both a FW and MGE patch.

Apologies to Apolyton gods for the breaches of etiquette I'm committing

edit: look on CivFanatics

[Six Thousand Year Old Man]

Originally posted by Field Marshal Klesh
Okay well there is no FW patch here at CivFanatics. I am going to DL the Classic CivII 2.42 patch though right?

Or does that turn my Classic CivII into MGE?
*Edit: just noticed they also have a civII--> gold patch.

-FMK.

Damn. I know there's a patch somewhere. The 2.42 patch is a good thing to have, but all it does is update to 2.42. You won't be in FW or MGE after that.

The Gold patch should put you in MGE. Someone with a better memory than me will hopefully post on where to find FW patch.

[klesh]

Okay well there is no FW patch here at CivFanatics. I am going to DL the Classic CivII 2.42 patch though right?

Or does that turn my Classic CivII into MGE?
*Edit: just noticed they also have a civII--> gold patch.

-FMK.