Windows XP & Patch 1.1 Bug

[Dale]

Sorry Kull, don't know the problem. I'm on XP (fresh install) and had no problems installing CTP2 and patch 1.11.

[Hermann the Lombard]

My home machine is Win XP Home, and I had no problem with the patch.

[Locutus]

Hmm... In that case it's a system specific problem. It might still be useful to have a manual patch, but that does reduce it's priority...

[FallOfRome]

Weird... I just reformatted my machine and went to install CTP2. Installed the game fine to the default directory (c:\program files\activision\call to power 2) and the patch is also not jiving for me.

It's complaining about anet.inf not being in c:\windows\temp. For kicks I copied it there manually and now it just says can't find the installation.

Ugh..

[Locutus]

Never heard of that particular error message before... Anyway, I figured there would be more people who would have problems with this, so I still plan on making that manual patch one of these days...

[azalae]

Administrator level installation

Did you install the game using administrator level access or normal user access?

Try to install it using admin access.

It is not really WinXP "bug" or problem. You have to remember that the game was not made for XP.

The main feature of XP is file access security. If you don't have a sufficient clearance you can't make changes. So can't accidentally delete system files and make the system unstable.

Now I think CTP2 need to make some modifications to sensitive portion of system registry (e.g. environment variables), thus if you didn't have admin access you can't and the game won't be installed properly.

[Maquiladora]

Do you have any other programs running, ie virus protection software, while running the patch?

Sorry, if this has already been mentioned, i scanned over a abit.

[Paythan]

Guys I know this thread is a little old but I have just purchased CTP2 and installed it onto XP. I have the same errors cropping up, cannot find the installation. Have uninstalled and reinstalled several times, all as administrator and still no luck. Has there been any further word on a workaround for this?

Thanks

Paythan

[Pedrunn]

I wasnt here to give a suggestion for this thread but have you changed the CTP2 default dirctory name during its intallation?

[Paythan]

It has been installed to the default directory.

I have managed to get it working by copying a friends installation that allowed the patch to run over the top of the CTP2 install on my machine and changing the registry entry from 1.0 to 1.1.

It would be better if there was another way to fix this though.

[Pedrunn]

Good to know you solved.
But there is a way to get the content of the patch creating a fake CTP2 directory and zipping this content. So that it can be manually installed.
Would be nice if someone had time for this. It was done before by Martin Gühman but i dont think he has it anymore .

Off-Topic: Do you or any of your friends ever posted here?

[Paythan]

I used to post here a little when I played CTP1 but have not been here in over a year. Most of my friends and I play MP games, many on the net, but they do not spend much time on the net aside from playing. I on the other hand like to know more than what is good for me about most things and spend a fair bit of time on the net reading boardsand doing research.

[SMIFFGIG]

I hope you and your mates play Modded ctp2

MM2?

[Maquiladora]

Originally posted by Pedrunn
Good to know you solved.
But there is a way to get the content of the patch creating a fake CTP2 directory and zipping this content. So that it can be manually installed.
Would be nice if someone had time for this. It was done before by Martin Gühman but i dont think he has it anymore .

Off-Topic: Do you or any of your friends ever posted here?

I take it Locutus didnt finish the manual patch, i guess it wasnt the most important concern seeing as the problem with WinXP was pretty random.

Can someone tell me how to get the files from the patch? I tried creating a false CtP2 dir and placing just the old ctp2.exe in the right dir, but it couldnt find the "old" installation to update. I know theres a really simple way to do this, or even better someone has already made a zip of the patch...

[Maquiladora]

YES!!!

Okay nm ive extracted the files from the wise patch installer, i dont know how legal that is, but if people cant use it with WinXP then i think its ok.

The unfortunate thing is, it comes to 8.70MB. Ive made the reg. file to fix it upto version 1.11. I used a program called "hwun". Ill zip it all up and see how big it is.