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[Braveheart]

Tried everything everyone yesterday was kind enough to suggest.
Slowly going madder....At the moment i have instaled the patch and modswap fine. the 2 cradle files are unzipped in the call to power 2 directory, but nothing comes up on modswop.
am i being stupid or is my computer
thanks........i'll get there 1 day

[Maquiladora]

My only question would be where did you install modswapper? Is MODSWAP.exe in your main "C:\Program Files\Activision\Call To Power 2" folder?

[centrifuge]

If you can launch CTP2 "original version" from Modswapper, than the problem must be in the placement of the cradle files.

[Martin Gühmann]

OK maybe it helps if you just tell us where you find the file CRAB_gamefile.txt on your system. (Full parth)

-Martin

[mapfi]

Modswapper takes it's options from the gamefile's so in your CTP folder\ctp2_data you should find a file called CRA_gamefile.txt. If that's not there, you extracted into the wrong folder...
Anyway - what kind of zip programm do you use?
Theoretically the whole info on the file placement in folders is saved in there and when you extract the zip into the main ctp2 directory it should work out fine.

Try this - extract the zip to your C drive - do you get a folder called ctp2_data? If so, copy that folder into the main Ctp2 directory where (as maq pointed out) should also be the modswap.exe. You'll be prompted for a permission to overwrite, say yes and everything should work.

Now if it doesn't - tell me exactly at which stage this is failing. You could also send me a screen print (push Prt Sc on the keyboard insert into MicrosoftPhotoEditor and save as jpg.) of the explorer showing the insides of your main ctp2 folder and your ctp2_data folder to mapfi@hotmail.com.

[Braveheart]

C:\programfiles\activisionvalue\call to power2\cradle_allfiles04_08\ctp2_data\default\game data

[Maquiladora]

Thats the problem then. Drag the whole "cradle_allfiles04_08" folder onto your desktop, then drag the "ctp2_data" folder back into your "C:\programfiles\activisionvalue\call to power2\" folder and let it overwrite anything it wants to. Unless someone wants to point out a less confusing way...

[Braveheart]

thanks maquiladora & evrybody

sorted. at last. could be a late night

[Martin Gühmann]

Originally posted by Maquiladora
Unless someone wants to point out a less confusing way...

Actual only the \ctp2_data\ subfolder of the cradle_allfiles04_08 folder needs to be dragged into the C:\programfiles\activisionvalue\call to power2\ so it will overwrite the subfolder there. After that the remaining empty cradle_allfiles04_08 folder can be deleted. If you used WinZip to unzip the files then you should use next time the right click to unzip it that will give you an context menue so you can unzip it into the distination folder or in a subfolder of the distination folder that is named after the *.zip file.

-Martin