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That's not right, is it?

Postby Killopotamus » Wed Aug 01, 2007 4:20 pm

Just re-installed Darwinia through Steam on to my Laptop, pretty sure it worked normally before the re-install. Can anyone tell me what is going on with this and how to fix it? Here is what is going on, this is the World map at start up, the Boot loaders work completely fine!

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I'm running: Windows XP SP2
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Postby KingAl » Wed Aug 01, 2007 4:30 pm

Unfortunately, that's just a issue with the latest patch and Radeon Xpress cards. Follow the instructions xander gives here so that you can manually install a previous patch (as there's no way to prevent Steam updating...).

The Steam directory to which he refers should be at "C:\Program Files\Steam\SteamApps\<username>\Darwina" or something along those lines.
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Postby Killopotamus » Wed Aug 01, 2007 4:37 pm

Ahh, thankyou for a very quick and helpful reply!
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Postby Killopotamus » Wed Aug 01, 2007 4:53 pm

Hmmmm..., I did as the post said, but I still have the problem. Any idea?
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Postby KingAl » Wed Aug 01, 2007 5:03 pm

Hrm... and you definitely got the 1.42 patch? Well, Filefront has a couple of earlier patches, which may or may not be more helpful... other than that there's not much else I can currently think of.
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Postby Killopotamus » Wed Aug 01, 2007 5:38 pm

I have found out that when I apply the 1.4.2 patch, Darwinia still says it is running 1.5.0 or what ever the new one is. How come even though I have removed the newer files and replaced them with 1.4.2 files, the game still runs 1.5.X? Am I doing some thing wrong?
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Postby xander » Wed Aug 01, 2007 6:04 pm

Killopotamus wrote:I have found out that when I apply the 1.4.2 patch, Darwinia still says it is running 1.5.0 or what ever the new one is. How come even though I have removed the newer files and replaced them with 1.4.2 files, the game still runs 1.5.X? Am I doing some thing wrong?

Don't apply the 1.4.2 patch to 1.5.x. Apply the 1.4.2 patch to an older version of the game.

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Postby Killopotamus » Wed Aug 01, 2007 6:06 pm

How do I get an older version of the game through Steam?
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Postby xander » Wed Aug 01, 2007 6:16 pm

From your Darwinia directory in your Steam directory, copy sounds.dat and main.dat to another directory. Apply the patch to that. I think that should work.

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Postby Killopotamus » Wed Aug 01, 2007 6:32 pm

Works like a dream, you are indeed a source of great knowledge Xander. I take my hat off to you sir!
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Postby hitm4n » Thu Aug 02, 2007 11:36 am

I've taken my hat off in honour of Zander too. And i'm doing a little dance round it :)
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Postby wwarnick » Fri Aug 03, 2007 7:36 pm

Easy now. xander is very case-sensitive.

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Postby RabidZombie » Sat Aug 04, 2007 5:08 pm

hitm4n wrote:Zander ... i'm


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