"The Ages of Man": A.C.S. Delivers Online Distribution Exclusively

[Atahualpa]

Is it compatible with the source code patch already?

[stankarp]

AFAIK no unfortunately. I have never tried it with the source code, maybe you would like to and let us know what happens.

I tried to use SLIC to correct the main problems with the original game.

[Dis]

546 MB? did I read that right? I think I'll download it tomorrow.

[DanQ]

Originally posted by Dis
546 MB? did I read that right? I think I'll download it tomorrow.

You did.

Remember, if you use a download manager like GetRight you should be able to stop and resume the download at your leisure.

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Dan; Apolyton CS

[Dis]

okay, I'm downloading now. I also have 2 P2P program running. So we'll see how long this takes.

edit: I'm already have 5% in less than a minute. I love broadband.

and to apolyton bandwidth. Good job guys.

[Dis]

this may sound like a stupid question, but how do you install it? I found a mod swapper zip and I installed that, but it doesn't seem to do anything. And I have hundreds of files in this download.

A pdf file near the ends talks about installation instructions and installing this one particular file to your hard drive. But I can't find it.

[stankarp]

You should install CTP2 somewhere first.

Once you downloaded it there is one main game folder, just copy and paste to your hard drive from the zip folder. Then go into it, find the modswapper icon, create a shortcut to it , then put that shortcut somewhere convenient like your desktop, then always launch AOM from there.

You cannot play the original game from here anymore.

[Addled Platypus]

error message

i folowed the install to a t


and it keeps on repeating, with the cd in the drive

[Addled Platypus]

update error

started all over

about the only thing I did was to switch directory on CTP install

I did drag and drop into the right folder & drive

[Dis]

Originally posted by stankarp
You should install CTP2 somewhere first.

Once you downloaded it there is one main game folder, just copy and paste to your hard drive from the zip folder. Then go into it, find the modswapper icon, create a shortcut to it , then put that shortcut somewhere convenient like your desktop, then always launch AOM from there.

You cannot play the original game from here anymore.

this appears to work thanks.


The game seems to run a bit slow though. is this normal? I started a game using a world map as the americans and started in the jungle of the yucatan peninsula. Not a very good starting postion.

[stankarp]

At the start the game should take less than 2 seconds per ai per turn on the AOM gigantic map, unless an AI enters a ruin and gets an advance or unit (this is a known bug from the Cradle days). The hang time can be up to 15 seconds but as the game progresses, it gradually reduces. Byt turn 150 it is usually down to 3-4 seconds.

I have not tired AOM on the World map. Don't know how many players there are in that or map size.

The "Cant find the CTP2 disc" seems to have 2 possible causes.
1) AOM was designed on the English language version. If you have a different language version it throws up that error.
2) Your ctp2 disc is not an authentic one (some pirate copies do not burn properly) and this also throws up the message AFAIK.

Hope this helps.

[Dis]

oh I got the can't find ctp2 disk, this was solved by putting the CD in.

Too bad my no-cd patch no longer works. .

now if there were an aom no cd-patch...

[Martin Gühmann]

Originally posted by stankarp
The "Cant find the CTP2 disc" seems to have 2 possible causes.
1) AOM was designed on the English language version. If you have a different language version it throws up that error.

That isn't the problem, I have the German version and it runs without problems. Actual you get other problems than a failing CD-check. Missing files, if you don't know that you have to copy all the AOM files you find in the english folder and its subfolders to your language folder and its subdirectories.

Originally posted by stankarp
2) Your ctp2 disc is not an authentic one (some pirate copies do not burn properly) and this also throws up the message AFAIK.

The CD-check also fails if your ..\ctp2_program\ctp\ folder contains a texture.dat that doesn't come from your CD.

One possibility is that the huge AOM download contains a texture.dat, unfortunately I can't check this. As I have an AOM CD at home and the latest update, so I don't download a huge file just to check this.

-Martin

[stankarp]

One possibility is that the huge AOM download contains a texture.dat,

The only change made to ctp2_program\ctp\ folder is the userprofile.txt file is already set up with my suggested settings. No other changes were made to anything in these folders. Certainly have never done anything with texture.dat files.

[Martin Gühmann]

Originally posted by stankarp
The only change made to ctp2_program\ctp\ folder is the userprofile.txt file is already set up with my suggested settings. No other changes were made to anything in these folders. Certainly have never done anything with texture.dat files.

It doesn't made whether you have modified texture.dat, it matters whether there is a texture.dat included in your download.

-Martin