Windows 7 and Steam

[TangerineOfDoom]

I have Men of War installed on Steam and from what I see is, unless I reinstall it to outside of Program Files, the DCG won't work without having to reinstall ALL my games :brickwall:. The problem I'm having now is I can't extract the maps from the launcher, I get the error: File not found: Men of War (remove Only) not found\resource\game.pak Check that the Men of War folder is entered correctly and map pak files are listed correctly in Settings.xml, and then after that it says that for each of the maps it tries to extract. Any way of getting this to work short of un- and reinstalling Steam?

Thanks for your help.

[alex0809]

There IS a solution for this problem, I think you have to add some environmental vars... I am not quite sure what you have to add exactly, I will tell you if i find out

(it HAS to work, because I have Men of War installed in steam standard directory ;))

EDIT: Sorry, after I reinstalled Win7 one time, it worked without those vars, and unfortunately I don't find the source of that tip anymore :( Maybe someone else knows it?

[TangerineOfDoom]

Thanks for the effort Alex, this mod looks like fun, but I'll be damned if I'm gonna reinstall all my games, I was really looking forward to massive defenses like in Evacuation and Moscow is behind us

[ngvede]

I have no idea how steam or w7 setup works but I'm sure you can unpack those maps yourself (manualy).

Navigate to your "game.pak"... open "winzip", drag the "game.pak" into "winzip"... wait.... extract to some folder... wait.... get your maps and place them in ".../mods/Campaign/map/multi/"mp maps go here"..." and ".../mods/Campaign/map/single/"sp maps go here"..."

That's how you get your maps out of the game... but somehow I think there will be more problems after that...


//ngvede

[Jason1]

Any way of getting this to work short of un- and reinstalling Steam?

Thanks for your help.

Yeah, Steam pretty much sucks for modding. I don't know what damned fool thought it was a good idea to force you to install all your games inside their folder, but I've seen problems with a number of different games now. (In my opinion, modding is the main thing that keeps PC gaming alive against all the console stuff out there - anything that throws a monkey wrench in that is just not good.) Sooner or later that's gonna really bite them in the butt and they will change it!

For now, the relevant part of the readme is below. The bottom paragraph describes an alternate strategy which works with a C:\Program Files setup (I myself played it that way for quite some time, so it works, but I understand the whole VirtualStore thing that's involved is pretty confusing for most people).



!IMPORTANT! Additional setup requirements for users of Windows Vista or Windows 7

Users of Windows Vista or Windows 7 MUST have administrator privileges to run this mod if Men of War is installed in the C:\Program Files\ folder. It is highly recommended that users of this mod install Men of War in another folder (eg. C:\Games\) by selecting the "advanced" button in the Men of War installer. Steam users should note that Steam installs itself in the C:\Program Files\ folder by default - therefore, if you are a Steam user, you are required to reinstall Steam outside of the C:\Program Files\ folder if you want to reinstall your games outside the C:\Program Files\ folder.

If you do not wish to install Men of War outside the C:\Program Files\ folder, then (and only then) you will need to do the following additional setup steps. First, if it doesn't already exist, you must make a folder called:
C:\Users\{User Name}\AppData\Local\VirtualStore\Program Files\{Install folder for your version: eg. 1C, Aspyr}\Men of War\mods\
Second, extract DCG (and the DCG packs you are using) inside this folder. Third, you will need to adjust your modfolder setting in the settings window or the Settings.xml file to point to this folder - the modfolder setting should look like this:
C:\Users\{User Name}\AppData\Local\VirtualStore\Program Files\{Install folder for your version: eg. 1C, Aspyr}\Men of War\mods\Campaign
You should then run the DCG mod only from this folder.

There are other options, too, but I do not recommend them because you can open yourself up to all sorts of nasty security problems if you start changing Windows settings.

[TangerineOfDoom]

Thanks, but I can't find any files called 'settings.xml' in my Men of War folder, or anywhere else for that matter. Where is the modfolder located at? I can't to seem find it anywhere.

[Zeke Wolff]

You need to create a folder named "mods" in your main men of war folder; until you´ve done that, you wont find any folder named "mods".

~Zeke.

[TangerineOfDoom]

I have a folder called mods, I even have the Faces of War missions mod, but there is no 'settings.xml' and MoW won't pick the DCG in the the folder Jason1 mentions, while in the mod folder in the MoW folder, it can pick up the DCG mod, but when it loads it a black screen.
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Right, scratch that, I found it, it opens up IE and doesn't let me do anything.

EDIT: You have to edit it, not run it. I'll try it now.
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It appeared my mods in options, now when I just tried to run the .exe and it disappeared. Now the only other file with campaign in them are 'campaign.exe.config' which I can't access.

[Jason1]

That's some pretty strange behavior. Are you sure you are running as administrator?

Here's another plan that might work:

Set DCG up as normal in C:\Program Files and try to run it from there first. See if Windows 7 copies it automatically to the VirtualStore (it should do that after a while). Then copy all the files into the VirtualStore as described in the readme.

Another thing you could try would be just make a complete copy of Men of War in another folder (ie. copy and paste it) outside C:\Program Files and then set up DCG as normal. Never tried it, but it might work in this case...