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I mentioned this as part of a larger list of general questions in the "general discussion" board and it was recommended that I take this particular question to a chap called Castellon on this board.

"From reading these forums it has become clear that you all put a lot of stock in the patches. So I decided to download patch 1.04a from Gamespot onto a CD at work and take it home (where I don't have the internet) to put on my computer. On trying to install it at home I got a message saying that the file could not be opened because it was corrupt. The next day at work I downloaded the patch again (this time from www.paradoxplaza.com) onto CD and went home to install it. Same "file corrupt" error message:confused:. Can anyone help me? Does it matter that my work computer is a Linux machine and my home computer is a Windows machine? I've never had this problem bringing home patches for other games (including EU2). I am a techno-clutz. HELP"

Anyway, I've always loved the Paradox community after all the help I got from the EU2 boards, so I hope someone will keep up the good work and get back to me on my query.

Thanks for any replies,
JiMo
 
Oh gosh. I am in trouble. It wasn't until after posting that I read the sticky above. I shall try and provide any information I know/can remember about my work and home computers.

TECHNICAL PROBLEM

Game Version & Patch (incl. publisher): Unsure. Probably the first version since I havn't ever patched it. Did later releases come patched? If it helps, I bought it from Amazon.co.uk about a week ago.

OS & build/SP: I'm not sure what this means. If OS means operating system then my work computer is a Linux machine and my home computer is a Windows XP machine

Computer, CPU & speed: Both about two years old and have no problem running original version of CK.

RAM: sheesh. Can't remember. Pass

Free HDD space: sufficient (and I don't think it's relevant to my problem)

Sound: works fine for original version

DIrect X version: 10

I read the stickies but I still have the following problem: Please see post above.

Thanks. Sorry I'm so crap with computers. Hope you understand.

JiMo
 
Oh no taking me back to my computer lab days at Uni.
I know back in the day if you wanted to transfer files from a Unix server to a PC there was a program we ran.

I thought that was just for text files though, where the program changed the formating so it would read properly, I remember having to run that program both when I was putting code I had done on the PC at home onto the unix workstation at school and when I did the reverse and was taking something home.

I don't think a binary file like an EXE would suffer the same fate, and even the text file since you are downloading the PC version, it would still be the PC version at home.

So unless you are doing something with it while it is on the Unix server I cannot see that being a problem.

One other thing is that maybe some antivirus software running on your work machine is corupting the patch in some way. Or you were just really unlucky in your first two attempts.

If I think of anything else I will post back here.
 
Castellon said:
Oh no taking me back to my computer lab days at Uni.
I know back in the day if you wanted to transfer files from a Unix server to a PC there was a program we ran.

I thought that was just for text files though, where the program changed the formating so it would read properly, I remember having to run that program both when I was putting code I had done on the PC at home onto the unix workstation at school and when I did the reverse and was taking something home.

I don't think a binary file like an EXE would suffer the same fate, and even the text file since you are downloading the PC version, it would still be the PC version at home.

So unless you are doing something with it while it is on the Unix server I cannot see that being a problem.

One other thing is that maybe some antivirus software running on your work machine is corupting the patch in some way. Or you were just really unlucky in your first two attempts.

If I think of anything else I will post back here.
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Thanks for the advice but I have bypassed the problem by using a friend's Windows machine. I never did like Linux.:mad:

Cheers
JiMo
 
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