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SeaMonkey, try this please. Try and rightclick on the patch itself and run it using the "Run as Admin" option. I am curious to see if that makes any difference. By the way, the implications of disabling UAC in Vista? You will have FAR less headaches. Madmatt

I certainly never encountered that during any of my testing, nor did anyone else ever get that. Please try and download from a different mirror as that sounds as if the host file may be corrupt. I have also notified Hubert of this error so he can check on it from his end as well. Another thing you could try is to go into your WaW folder and rename your existing sc2.ini file and then run the patch. There could be something on your system thats keeping the patch from updating that file, which it needs to do. Are you on Vista by chance? Madmatt

Just released, the Strategic Command 2 Weapons and Warfare Expansion v1.04 Patch. This patch is 127 megabytes in size and addresses various issues as detailed below. PATCH NOTES: This patch is all-inclusive, includes all the earlier patch content and will patch any previous Battlefront.com English language version of Strategic Command Weapons and Warfare Expansion from the initial v1.0 to v1.03. This patch will not work with any non-English version of Strategic Command 2 Weapons and Warfare Expansion at this time. Separate patches for the other language versions will be released in the future. PREVIOUS SAVE GAME COMPATIBILITY NOTE Save games created with earlier versions of the game are NOT compatible with v1.04. Please finish your in-progress games before applying this patch. NEW VIDEO ACCELERATION SETTING If you play the game and notice unplayably slow map scroll speeds and unit selection time, then please activate the "Video Acceleration" option from inside the Settings panel. That option will use a different method to handle graphics and should put your game performance back to the proper levels. If you have never noticed any extreme game slowness, you can leave this option set to OFF. v1.04 VERSION HISTORY: GAME ENGINE CHANGES - Corrected a Network load error for some games converted from E-Mail/Hotseat, resaved all Allied start campaigns via Editor - Fixed a surprise enemy contact error for Paratroops that sometimes gave them an extra strength point - Fixed a strategic bomber error that caused some strength point anomalies for defending air units located on the attacked resource - Fixed a Map dialog error - Sea weather zone with majority value of 'calm' will be set to calm for the first turn of a campaign, similar setting already in place for land Primary and Secondary weather effects - Fixed a submarine surprise encounter error - Fixed a graphical glitch that would cause islands to disappear when stormy seas were present - Improved AI naval combat calculations, now up to 4X faster under the right circumstances - Storms and storm effects no longer apply to naval units that are on a coastal or island position at sea where there is a territorial owner of the tile, for example the rules remain unchanged for all open sea tiles - Improved scroll speed by adjusting how DirectX stores bitmaps to memory with an optional setting for 'Video Acceleration' in the SETTINGS dialog - Improved scroll speed by adding bitmapped strength values instead of generating them on the fly EDITOR RELATED CHANGES - Fixed the following User Manual errata: - SA armies France, Spain and Sweden value is 2 now mentioned - Destroyer range attack value is now correctly set to 1 - Motorization cost values are corrected - Fixed the following campaign errors: - Polish town properly renamed Przemysl - Removed extraneous Corps names for Saudi Arabia Download the v1.04 Weapons and Warfare Patch Here In addition to the patch above, we have also updated the Weapons and Warfare Expansion demo with all the v1.04 fixes and changes. Download the v1.04 Weapons and Warfare Demo Here Madmatt

Email elicense@battlefront.com with all the info you included above as well as the name and approximate date and email address that you would have placed the order under. We may be able to help locate that old info for you. Madmatt

I have just replied to you directly in email Rafael. Look for that email soon if you haven't already received it. Madmatt

The second expansion in the acclaimed Strategic Command 2 grand strategy series, Patton Drives East is now available! Available in three delivery formats (Download, Mail Delivery and joint Download+Mail Delivery), Patton Drives East explores the "what ifs" of a post WWII conflict between the Allies and USSR as well as including various hypothetical revisions of classic WWII campaigns. Order the Download or Download+Mail version and you can download the game today and be playing within minutes! The Mail Delivery version should begin shipping out from our warehouse in about one weeks time. If you would to check out the game before purchasing, the official demo is also now available. Order today!!!

The second expansion in the acclaimed Strategic Command 2 grand strategy series, Patton Drives East is now available! Available in three delivery formats (Download, Mail Delivery and joint Download+Mail Delivery), Patton Drives East explores the "what ifs" of a post WWII conflict between the Allies and USSR as well as including various hypothetical revisions of classic WWII campaigns. Order the Download or Download+Mail version and you can download the game today and be playing within minutes! The Mail Delivery version should begin shipping out from our warehouse in about one weeks time. If you would to check out the game before purchasing, the official demo is also now available. Order today!!!

Nowhere was a global map promised or mentioned for this expansion. Sorry you thought it was going to be there, but we never said it was. Madmatt

Discussions on games not currently published by Battlefront.com is a violation of the forum rules. This thread is being padlocked. Madmatt

Guys, I think you are getting a little mislead, that North Afrika game is NOT a add-on or expansion for ToW, rather its an all new game. Its not even for sure that we are the ones that will be publishing it, everything is still very early in development. I think there is confusion because its using some of the underlying ToW technology but please wait until you see some official (i.e. in English from us ) announcements on the future of ToW. Madmatt

I have'nt forgotten about you and I sent all your info to 1C to review but its their big May Day holiday going on right now so I doubt I will hear anything until they all recuperate. It's also important to note that other than you, (and maybe 1 or 2 others) I haven't ever seen this same issue so that means its a low priority issue (although not to you of course). That could also affect how long it takes until we get some resolution for you. Madmatt

Sounds like you also need to uninstall and reinstall Dot Net Framework 2.0 Give that a shot and see if it helps. Madmatt

May 2nd, 2008 Patton Drives East Expansion Demo Released Hello everyone! Today we are happy to offer up the demo for the second Strategic Command 2 expansion, Patton Drives East. This exciting new expansion explores the various what-if's of an alternate outcome to the events of World War 2 including how a war between Stalin's armies and the Allies would play out. Strategic Command 2 Patton Drives East Expansion is currently available for Pre-Order via our online webstore with an official release date occurring in early May. Download the Patton Drives East Demo here Strategic Command 2 Patton Drives East Expansion Demo (v1.0) This demo includes THREE turn limited (1 game year each) playable campaigns: * 1939 Storm of Steel turns the clock back to the very beginning of hostilities in Europe as the German army prepares to occupy the Sudetenland and Czechoslovakia. * 1945 Patton Drives East allows you to change history in the months after the Nazi surrender as Patton is allowed to drive across the Oder River and push forward to the very gates of Moscow. * 1948 Berlin Crisis unleashes the fury of Stalin's Armies against the Allies in a contest for the total occupation of Europe. Multiplayer modes are disabled in the demo but the campaigns are playable against the AI as either side. Madmatt

May 2nd, 2008 Patton Drives East Expansion Demo Released Hello everyone! Today we are happy to offer up the demo for the second Strategic Command 2 expansion, Patton Drives East. This exciting new expansion explores the various what-if's of an alternate outcome to the events of World War 2 including how a war between Stalin's armies and the Allies would play out. Strategic Command 2 Patton Drives East Expansion is currently available for Pre-Order via our online webstore with an official release date occurring in early May. Download the Patton Drives East Demo here Strategic Command 2 Patton Drives East Expansion Demo (v1.0) This demo includes THREE turn limited (1 game year each) playable campaigns: * 1939 Storm of Steel turns the clock back to the very beginning of hostilities in Europe as the German army prepares to occupy the Sudetenland and Czechoslovakia. * 1945 Patton Drives East allows you to change history in the months after the Nazi surrender as Patton is allowed to drive across the Oder River and push forward to the very gates of Moscow. * 1948 Berlin Crisis unleashes the fury of Stalin's Armies against the Allies in a contest for the total occupation of Europe. Multiplayer modes are disabled in the demo but the campaigns are playable against the AI as either side. Madmatt

May 2nd, 2008 Patton Drives East Expansion Demo Released Hello everyone! Today we are happy to offer up the demo for the second Strategic Command 2 expansion, Patton Drives East. This exciting new expansion explores the various what-if's of an alternate outcome to the events of World War 2 including how a war between Stalin's armies and the Allies would play out. Strategic Command 2 Patton Drives East Expansion is currently available for Pre-Order via our online webstore with an official release date occurring in early May. Download the Patton Drives East Demo here Strategic Command 2 Patton Drives East Expansion Demo (v1.0) This demo includes THREE turn limited (1 game year each) playable campaigns: * 1939 Storm of Steel turns the clock back to the very beginning of hostilities in Europe as the German army prepares to occupy the Sudetenland and Czechoslovakia. * 1945 Patton Drives East allows you to change history in the months after the Nazi surrender as Patton is allowed to drive across the Oder River and push forward to the very gates of Moscow. * 1948 Berlin Crisis unleashes the fury of Stalin's Armies against the Allies in a contest for the total occupation of Europe. Multiplayer modes are disabled in the demo but the campaigns are playable against the AI as either side. Madmatt

Hi everyone! Due to persistent issues on our former server, we have recently moved the lobby system to a new server. Unfortuantly, for people that already have the game, there is no way for us to automatically change your games configuration to SEE this new server. However, by performing the steps listed below you should be able to connect and play on the new server. The change involves editing a single config file and we are going to try and make this as painless as possible for you. Here is the process to manually edit your "servers.config" file (located in your Down in Flames "bin" folder) so that it can connect to the new server. To do so, browse into you Down in Flames game folder, then open the "bin" folder and then open the "servers.config" file with Windows notepad and edit it so that is looks like this (just the text below the 'code:' line) </font><blockquote>code:</font><hr /><pre style="font-size:x-small; font-family: monospace;"><servers> <server name="BFC" address="downinflamesgames.com" port="8080" default="true"/> </servers> </pre>

Hi everyone! Due to persistent issues on our former server, we have recently moved the lobby system to a new server. Unfortuantly, for people that already have the game, there is no way for us to automatically change your games configuration to SEE this new server. However, by performing the steps listed below you should be able to connect and play on the new server. The change involves editing a single config file and we are going to try and make this as painless as possible for you. To do so, browse to "C:\Program Files\Battlefront\Down in Flames" (or wherever you installed the game on your machine), and open the file "DiFOUpdater.exe.config" using Windows Notepad. Modify the contents of the file so that it looks like the section below. In particular, make sure the URL matches "http://downinflamesgames.com:8888/DiFOService/DiFOUpdate.asmx". <configuration> <appSettings> <add key="Install.services.DiFOUpdate" value="http://downinflamesgames.com:8888/DiFOService/DiFOUpdate.asmx" /> <add key="ProgramName" value="bin\DiFOLobbyClient.exe" /> <add key="LogErrors" value="True" /> </appSettings> </configuration> After making the above changes, SAVE the file and then run the auto-updater by clicking on the Windows “Start” button and then “All Programs/Battlefront/Down in Flames/Update Down in Flames. You should see a dialog display the progress of files being downloaded. Once the download is complete, you should be good to go. That should do it! Madmatt [ May 20, 2008, 09:12 AM: Message edited by: Madmatt ]

I got the email, but in the future, with any issues concerning licensing, please email us at elicense@battlefront.com instead. That way, you will get quicker service as both Martin and I handle this email together and if one of us isn't around, the other usually is. Madmatt

PPB, its possible that you are encountering an issue between eLicense and a troublesome function of Widows referred to as Data Execution Prevention. Please review this section of the eLicense FAQ and do the steps listed and see if it changes anything for you. http://www.battlefront.com/elicense_faq.html#nothingappears Madmatt

Crazy, the next time you get a crash please do me a favor and zip up the log.lst file (and any other error log file you might see in the games directory) and email them to me at support@battlefront.com. Also, please try and reinstall your copy of .Net Framework 2.0 and be sure and apply all of the latest service packs for it. http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=0856eacb-4362-4b0d-8edd-aab15c5e04f5&displaylang=en ToW only uses .Net 2.0 so you don't need to install .Net 3.0 (although they can both be installed at the same time). Lastly, go ahead and update your install of java on your computer. You can grab that here: http://www.java.com/en/download/index.jsp Now try and see if the lobby continues to crash. Madmatt

I ran those same drivers on my 8800GT for a months with no problems. I would suggest going in to the Nvidia control panel and check all of the main settings to be what you had them to before. I would try and set as many options as you can to "application preference" especially anti-aliasing and anistropic filtering. Also try and turn Threaded Optimizations to OFF or Auto and Extension Limits to OFF. You might also want to check out the new Nvidia 174.74 beta drivers. I am using them now and haven't had any problems with them, but of course they are beta. Madmatt

I have nearly the same hardware and don't ever get crashes like this. If your on Vista, please launch the game by right clicking on the shortcut and selection the "Run as Admin" option. Also, please go into the game options panel and set the "use only one CPU" setting and see if that doesn't improve your stability. Madmatt

Crazy, at what point when you go into the lobby does it crash? Immediately when you click the INTERNET button or when you try and connect to a listed server? Does it also crash when you go into DIRECT-IP and manually type in the IP address and port of a hosted server? To use the DIRECT-IP method you will have to contact the host player manually to get his IP address. Madmatt

Volcatius, Martin meant that Patton Drives East would would fine with the BATTLEFRONT.COM (english) version of of SC2 and WaW. It will not work with the German versions. Madmatt