Curry Posted December 13, 2003 Share Posted December 13, 2003 Sorry if this is the wrong place for this, but I thought in this forum with all of you brilliant players we could find some help. I'm trying to help a new player play a game via email. However he has been having troubles getting the game to work on his computer. I'm a computer challenged person and so I was wondering if someone here could help us. He says, "Hi - sorry to be a pain but I've downloaded it but nothing's showing in my PBEM directory when I load the game - what am I doing wrong? still can't get your file to appear when I load SC - I've downloaded it and saved it to PBEM but can't get it to work. Sorry this is very frustrating" Any help? THANKS Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blashy Posted December 13, 2003 Share Posted December 13, 2003 Is it zipped? If so, did he unzip it or simply put the zipped file in the PBEM folder? If so, that won't work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JerseyJohn Posted December 13, 2003 Share Posted December 13, 2003 I've had problems getting it to run on my Pentium II machines, which are both about 160, around ten times slower than the newer Pentium IVs. It works perfectly on my new machine. There might be a point below which the game just doesn't run properly. I think you'd be better off in the Technical Forum where Hubert answers these things himself. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Terif Posted December 13, 2003 Share Posted December 13, 2003 Easy solutions are often the right solutions...I also think in the same direction as Blashy. Most probably he didnt unzip the file, or simply put it in a wrong directory - perhaps he wanted to copy it into PBEM but misclicked... Because as far as I know he could see it in SC even if the file would be corrupt, you two had different/incompatible versions, or the file is set read only (other common sources of problems). Another possibility: the file is write only, but I dont think so, I never read this ever happened before...it would be a premiere . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Curry Posted December 13, 2003 Author Share Posted December 13, 2003 The file is not zipped. However, as Terif said, might not be a compatible version. I will need to check on that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Feldtrompeter Posted December 13, 2003 Share Posted December 13, 2003 It is possible that you have different versions installed. In some recent games my opponents had a different version and when I put his file into the PBEM folder and started the game I couldn't find the file listed in the PBEM directory of SC. When he updated his version it worked. You should also make sure that the file's ending is .sav Once I renamed an oponent's filename and tried to load it in the PBEM directory when I found out that I couldn't see it . Then I checked the filename and added .sav to it and magically it appeared in SC thereafter. Feldtrompeter Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Curry Posted December 13, 2003 Author Share Posted December 13, 2003 Thanks, he did not have the most recent patch, he had the 1.06 I beleive instead of the 1.07 Thanks to all Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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