XP issues with any upgrades

[g8rengr]

Starting to play CTP2 again after about a year. This time on my laptop with XP pro on it. I have not yet put on the 1.11 patch, the modswapper, or the Apolyton 2.0 pack but I plan to.

Is there any issues I need to be aware of. I seem to remember seeing a post about XP but could not find it again. Thanks again for your help.


g8rengr

[Maquiladora]

Unless you plan to play multiplayer there isnt any other potential problems im aware of with winXP.

[HuangShang]

modswapping is impossible

[g8rengr]

no swapping? at ALL? I finally got a machine that runs CTP2 without crashing all the time (my old desktop had problems with it) and can't run the modswapper now. !@#@$!@!!


Well thanks for the info anyway. I appreciate it.

[MrBaggins]

Excuse me? I can't modswap on my XP system? I must be dreaming

[J Bytheway]

Modswapper runs fine on my machine with XP.

[Pedrunn]

I used to have XP and the modwapper worked nicely!

Dont know what you are talking about

[g8rengr]

Great! I will try adding the modswapper. See what happens...I think it might be ok. Heck the game never ran as smooth on my desktop as it does now. So we will see. Ill post if anything weird happens.

Thanks alot all.

[Locutus]

The only change from Win XP compared to Win 9x should be in the order of savegames and modswapper options and stuff: Win 9x sorts them chronologically, XP alphabetically (unless you have XP on a FAT32 partition, but this is fairly rare). This of course has absolutely no effect on gameplay

[g8rengr]

another quick question I download the modswapper .zip file. Does it just get unzipped to the root of the CTP2 installation. Which is NOT in the default location (its on my work machine )?

Thanks for all the quick responses, have monitored this forum posting since CTP1 days and never posted. But have got tons of strategy ideas from it. Very impressed with the community as a whole. The moderators, the mods..etc. Keep it up.

G8rengr

[MrBaggins]

DP

[MrBaggins]

You unzip it wherever, then install it. It will ask where your CtP2 root directory is. You 'install' it there. N.B. Ensure that you have local administrative rights when you install it. They are necessary.

[g8rengr]

OK, didn't want to unzip to temp directory first if it needed to be overlayed int CTP2 root. But if there is an installer, I think I can handle it .

Thanks Mr. Baggins.

Looking forward to trying a SAP game.

[HuangShang]

Modswapper runs fine on XP.

i was thinking Win2k, i didnt know XP worked

[Tamerlin]

Originally posted by HuangShang
i was thinking Win2k, i didnt know XP worked

I have Win 2000 Pro installed on my computer and Modswapper runs fine.