Problem patching to dd arm 1.2

[POemil]

Hi

with all the news about HOI3 I got in the mood to play doomsday again, it has been a few months.
The problem is that the 1.2(all inclusive) patch from arma doesnt work for me. The game loads, but when i start loading a scenario, it locks up, and my visual studio wants to debug something.
I have doomsday and arma through gamersgate. I removed all files, and ran a registry cleaner, and installed doomsday, dd patch 1.3, arma, and arma patch 1.2, and it doesnt work. I can always start a scenario except when i apply the latest step, installing patch 1.2. When i instal patch 1.1 from arma after 1.2 I can play scenarios again.
So what am I doing wrong?

 

[Red Jacket]

I can only think of a couple of things, that are commonly missed.

1. Where are you getting the 1.2 arma patch from?

There are two links, on the dd-arma forum, one for those with the anthology version of the game and another from GG. You want to use the patch from GG; go there to get it, if you haven't already.

2. When you installed the 1.2 arma patch from GG did you install it to the same directory where you have doomsday installed?

That is where the GG 1.2 patch should be installed. Something like \pardoxgames\doomsday\

Sounds like you've done everything correctly, but I cannot tell from your post where you got the patch and where you applied it, so I toss that out as a possibility.

There is another startup crash issue involving the avi folder and the bink player. That doesnt sound like your problem, but you can rename the avi folder to aviold if you want to take that issue out of the equation.

 

[POemil]

I can only think of a couple of things, that are commonly missed.

1. Where are you getting the 1.2 arma patch from?

There are two links, on the dd-arma forum, one for those with the anthology version of the game and another from GG. You want to use the patch from GG; go there to get it, if you haven't already.

2. When you installed the 1.2 arma patch from GG did you install it to the same directory where you have doomsday installed?

That is where the GG 1.2 patch should be installed. Something like \pardoxgames\doomsday\

Sounds like you've done everything correctly, but I cannot tell from your post where you got the patch and where you applied it, so I toss that out as a possibility.

There is another startup crash issue involving the avi folder and the bink player. That doesnt sound like your problem, but you can rename the avi folder to aviold if you want to take that issue out of the equation.

Hi
Thx for ur help
I have the patch from Gamersgate, and I have also installed it in the right map (the .exe changes in size when I install it),so I got a bit desperate, but ur last advice seemed to do the trick
If i change the name of the avi map, i can open scenarios, and if I change it back to "avi", I cant anymore. So that seems to fix it! Strange that the game opens and I can manoever in the menus without problems though.
Well anyway, now I am going to find out if I can play the compendium mod without problems!

Thx again!