raz_atoth Posted October 12, 2013 Share Posted October 12, 2013 I just purchased and installed MG, but in order to be able to finish my 2.00 pbem games i first copied the contents of the CM folder to a different location, then applied MG to the original one. The issue is every time i start the 2.00 version,then switch back to MG, the activation for MG vanishes. I can start the game just fine,at the bottom of the screen it says v 2.10, but the MG blue icon isn't there and the MG battles/campaigns are greyed out. Anyone encountering this as well? Any idea what the fix - if any - might be? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seedorf81 Posted October 12, 2013 Share Posted October 12, 2013 Yes, I had the same problem. Reran Market Garden installer again and the problem, very mysteriously, didn't come up any more.. Hope you already solved the problem yourself. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
raz_atoth Posted October 12, 2013 Author Share Posted October 12, 2013 Let me see if i got it straight. You reran the installer and now you are able to play both MG and v 2.00 without having to reactivate MG every time you launch 2.00? Is this correct? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bisu Posted October 13, 2013 Share Posted October 13, 2013 Could anybody confirm that you can or can not continue a PBEM game which was started in v2.01 after BOTH opponents have upgraded to v2.1? Thx. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heirloom_Tomato Posted October 13, 2013 Share Posted October 13, 2013 I too am having the same problem. I have made a copy of my 2.01 version and then ran the Mg installer on the original folder. I can play mg just fine but if I load up the old 2.01version than MG scenarios are greyed out in the updated version. It says 2.10 at the bottom. What did I do wrong? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toblakai Posted October 13, 2013 Share Posted October 13, 2013 I just purchased and installed MG, but in order to be able to finish my 2.00 pbem games i first copied the contents of the CM folder to a different location, then applied MG to the original one. The issue is every time i start the 2.00 version,then switch back to MG, the activation for MG vanishes. I can start the game just fine,at the bottom of the screen it says v 2.10, but the MG blue icon isn't there and the MG battles/campaigns are greyed out. Anyone encountering this as well? Any idea what the fix - if any - might be? Same problem here! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Compassion Posted October 13, 2013 Share Posted October 13, 2013 yep, it's happening... and it's easy to work around. From one of my posts in the couple of thread running about this issue in the tech support forum: I think that BTS made some kind of change in the shared files hidden under the public user with the new update. They had not done this with previous updates so it's a new thing. Perhaps something that anti-tampering routines in the older version of the game change back. That means that parallel installs will not work as perfectly as before. I just copied the MG key to a text file and left it on my desktop. Whenever I change from 2.01 to 2.10, I just run the activation again. Luckily in my case I have only 1 'old' game going. The rest were either FI games or other players that updated right away so we just updated our games and went on under 2.10. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toblakai Posted October 13, 2013 Share Posted October 13, 2013 yep, it's happening... and it's easy to work around. From one of my posts in the couple of thread running about this issue in the tech support forum: I think that BTS made some kind of change in the shared files hidden under the public user with the new update. They had not done this with previous updates so it's a new thing. Perhaps something that anti-tampering routines in the older version of the game change back. That means that parallel installs will not work as perfectly as before. I just copied the MG key to a text file and left it on my desktop. Whenever I change from 2.01 to 2.10, I just run the activation again. Luckily in my case I have only 1 'old' game going. The rest were either FI games or other players that updated right away so we just updated our games and went on under 2.10. I think the activations are limited, or? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Compassion Posted October 13, 2013 Share Posted October 13, 2013 No, the activations are limited to the number of machines you are installed on, not the number of times you activate on the same machine (at least that has been my experience over the last couple of days and how I read the knowledge base articles). 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seedorf81 Posted October 13, 2013 Share Posted October 13, 2013 Let me see if i got it straight. You reran the installer and now you are able to play both MG and v 2.00 without having to reactivate MG every time you launch 2.00? Is this correct? Yes, am playing German campaign, have started two or three scenario's to look at them and no problems. However, I did not play PBEM, nor have I tried to load and older CMBN/CW game-save yet. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cireland65 Posted October 13, 2013 Share Posted October 13, 2013 Same problem and to have to activate the game every time is a bit of a pain, especially when MG is suppose to be backward compatible. Seedorf81, are you playing AI or PBEM? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
raz_atoth Posted October 13, 2013 Author Share Posted October 13, 2013 No, the activations are limited to the number of machines you are installed on, not the number of times you activate on the same machine (at least that has been my experience over the last couple of days and how I read the knowledge base articles). I was under the impression you have a total of 3 activations available,iregardless of the machine from where you activate it. I would be happy to stand corrected, but i believe the trick with reactivating MG over and over again won't work. No more than 3 times that is 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seedorf81 Posted October 13, 2013 Share Posted October 13, 2013 Same problem and to have to activate the game every time is a bit of a pain, especially when MG is suppose to be backward compatible. Seedorf81, are you playing AI or PBEM? Just AI, so could be PBEM causing the problems? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cireland65 Posted October 13, 2013 Share Posted October 13, 2013 Just AI, so could be PBEM causing the problems? That is what I am thinking PBEM. Seems a lot of people on the Blitz are having this issue and we are all PBEM. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moon Posted October 14, 2013 Share Posted October 14, 2013 No, the activations are limited to the number of machines you are installed on, not the number of times you activate on the same machine (at least that has been my experience over the last couple of days and how I read the knowledge base articles). That is correct. The system is not 100% error free, as no software is, in determining "the same machine", but in 99% of all cases it should not eat up activations when you run the activation interface on the same PC. It's not recommended, though, because of that 1% where it can bite you, and because having multiple copies of CMBN on the same PC is in fact unsupported and potentially unstable, and could lead to other issues, as well. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A Canadian Cat Posted October 14, 2013 Share Posted October 14, 2013 having multiple copies of CMBN on the same PC is in fact unsupported and potentially unstable What, news to me. I have been running that way since you guys issued the first patch. And Steve has it as part of his recommended usage (see item 2): Players wishing to finish up a legacy game have two choices: 1. Hold off upgrading (or downgrade to v1.11) until the game is complete and then upgrade after. 2. Create a second install and upgrade that one to v2.0 while using the original install to complete previous games in v1.11. This will not consume any of your licenses since, technically, they are two separate products. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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