Shmavis Posted August 3, 2009 Share Posted August 3, 2009 Many thanks, Mr. Culliton. I hope you were paid for your efforts. If not, I'll send you some dough, make you a sandwich, clean your house, whatever. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarthJesus Posted August 4, 2009 Share Posted August 4, 2009 When I apply this new Vista patch to a fresh install of CMBB it only displays three Battles, and there are no Operations. What's up with that? I was thinking it might be a display issue so I Alt+Tabbed out of the game and went back in, but no luck. I also disabled AA for the game through my video card, so I don't think it's a display issue. Looking in my Scenarios folder in the directory shows I have quite a bit more than three Battles to choose from, or at least I should. Any idea what the problem could be? I am having the exact same problem as pixelbaron. When I start a new game there are no operations listed and only three battles: "A simple attack comrade," "a Small battles Small melee," "all Battles Bidermann's guns." I'm sure I installed the Vista patch in the right game and not the demo. System specs: Vista Home premium Intel Core 2 Duo E6850 NVIDIA GeForce 8800GT 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scottsmm Posted August 4, 2009 Share Posted August 4, 2009 Could someone please tell me, step by step on how to get this fix to work properly? I did read the ReadMe. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moon Posted August 4, 2009 Share Posted August 4, 2009 Receipe for a successful applepie... uh, upgrade: You need: - one working installed game of CMBB - upgrade ZIP file, purchased, downloaded, and extracted Do: - open the CMBB game folder, and locate the "CM Barbarossa to Berlin.exe" file - rename "CM Barbarossa to Berlin.exe" to e.g. "CMBB Backup.exe" - open the folder where you extracted the ZIP file contents - copy the contents of the ZIP folder into the CMBB game folder - set the new "CM Barbarossa to Berlin.exe" to "Run as administrator" under Vista, or shut down UAC - launch the game If you are still running into issues, then this will be either because of your anti-virus program blocking the new exe from being executed (falsely claiming a virus where there is none), or because your Data-execution-prevention (DEP) settings are kicking in. The Helpdesk at www.battlefront.com/helpdesk has details about what to do then (in the eLicense section). 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Redwolf Posted August 4, 2009 Share Posted August 4, 2009 If you are still running into issues, then this will be either because of your anti-virus program blocking the new exe from being executed (falsely claiming a virus where there is none), or because your Data-execution-prevention (DEP) settings are kicking in. The Helpdesk at www.battlefront.com/helpdesk has details about what to do then (in the eLicense section). I don't think this can possibly account for the mostly-empty scenario folder view. The crashes, sure. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scottsmm Posted August 11, 2009 Share Posted August 11, 2009 Thanks Moon . 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SargeFry71 Posted August 15, 2009 Share Posted August 15, 2009 Moon, Phillip, et al, Here I am STILL not able to play this game . Have I followed the installation instructions to the letter? Yes. Did I check the "Knowledge Base"? Yes. Have I posted my issue in the tech support forum? Yes, although only Redwolf has stopped in to assist (http://www.battlefront.com/community/showthread.php?t=88067). Have I e-mailed tech support? Yes I e-mailed Matt Faller, although I have received nothing in reply, not even an autoreply. Am I beginning to get a bit angry about the whole thing? I'll let you guess the answer to this one. I am not usually an "early adopter" as I get a slight case of the ass when things do not work as advertised. I took a risk in this case as Battlefront has always resolved any of my issues in the past (I have been playing CMBB/CMAK since they came out). I even bought these two patches the very day that they were available on Battlefront. When was that again? Ah, yes. 23 July. It is now the 15th of August and I haven't played either game once. Will someone PLEASE HELP? I would have posted this in my original thread but as I did not append a smiley face to the topic, it seems to have been ignored (unlike this thread). Here: Now that we are friends, you can help me, yes? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moon Posted August 15, 2009 Share Posted August 15, 2009 Hi SargeFry71. Sorry about the delay in getting your issues resolved. We have about a dozen tickets sitting in the helpdesk system waiting on Matt's return from vacation next week. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SargeFry71 Posted August 15, 2009 Share Posted August 15, 2009 Moon, Whew! Thanks for the reply. Getting mad tires me something awful. Appreciate the feedback, (almost) all better now. I understand vacations. I take vacations too and I don't answer e-mail when I am on them either 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moon Posted August 15, 2009 Share Posted August 15, 2009 Actually the vacations are just part of it. We're also investigating what may be causing some of these issues (other than user error, which has in fact been the root of problems for several people at least with similar symptoms). 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SargeFry71 Posted August 21, 2009 Share Posted August 21, 2009 Folks, Any word on this issue? The odds that I have successfully screwed up the "rename old .exe and then extract to folder with file structure intact" directions on three separate tries to make this patch work are kinda slim. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coda Posted August 25, 2009 Share Posted August 25, 2009 I installed the vista patch and am seeing a different problem. I am running vista on a dell laptop with a ATI mobility Radeon HD 3400 series. In CMBB, the in game text appears as white on white background (and thus unreadable). Strange thing is, I also had this problem in CMAK BEFORE the patch, but the patch fixed it. Any ideas? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vergeltungswaffe Posted August 25, 2009 Share Posted August 25, 2009 The text fix is here: http://www.battlefront.com/community/showthread.php?t=82561 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MattJames Posted August 27, 2009 Share Posted August 27, 2009 I've got a problem that makes me feel real stupid. I installed the latest demo (Vista 32b). I want to change my video settings but I can't find a file called CMBB prefs anywhere. I tried if it was a hidden file but with hidden files shown, I still can't find it. What's going on!? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moon Posted August 27, 2009 Share Posted August 27, 2009 That file is inside your game folder but it's only there after the first time you run the game. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MattJames Posted August 28, 2009 Share Posted August 28, 2009 That file is inside your game folder but it's only there after the first time you run the game. But I ran the game many times already. There's got to be something about my German speaking Vista that has hidden the file from me. You see, I even uninstalled the demo once, then installed it again, and as I ran it, I wasn't asked to choose the resolution. Doesn't it mean the pref file was already there? Even still, even the Vista find function cannot find the file on my hard-drive. It seems as if it was saved as a registry entry or something. Lucky me, there was a solution to my white-text problem elsewhere. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Redwolf Posted August 28, 2009 Share Posted August 28, 2009 But I ran the game many times already. There's got to be something about my German speaking Vista that has hidden the file from me. You see, I even uninstalled the demo once, then installed it again, and as I ran it, I wasn't asked to choose the resolution. Doesn't it mean the pref file was already there? Even still, even the Vista find function cannot find the file on my hard-drive. It seems as if it was saved as a registry entry or something. Lucky me, there was a solution to my white-text problem elsewhere. Admin versus non-admin installation and runtime? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Schrullenhaft Posted August 28, 2009 Share Posted August 28, 2009 MattJames - the file should be called Combat Mission BB Prefs. It has those spaces and no extension. It should most likely be located somewhere within the User folder since Vista likes to grab any user created data and stuff it there, rather than allowing files to be written to the Program Files directory. Under Windows XP this file would be in the same directory as the CMBB executable. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GenSplatton Posted August 28, 2009 Share Posted August 28, 2009 MattJames - the file should be called Combat Mission BB Prefs. It has those spaces and no extension. It should most likely be located somewhere within the User folder since Vista likes to grab any user created data and stuff it there, rather than allowing files to be written to the Program Files directory. Under Windows XP this file would be in the same directory as the CMBB executable. Just as a test, I searched for this file on my Vista laptop. I couldn't find it. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Schrullenhaft Posted August 30, 2009 Share Posted August 30, 2009 GenSplatton - this file will NOT be created until CMBB is run and exited normally (i.e. - you don't kill it with Task Manager, etc.). If you have run and exited successfully and still can't find the file, then I'm at a bit of a loss as to why it can't be found. CMBB saves its settings there and if the executable can't find the file, then you're presented with the resolution selection process each time you attempt to run CMBB. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joachim Posted September 1, 2009 Share Posted September 1, 2009 If not only Vista speaks German but CMBB, too, then it is "Combat Mission BB Voreinst". At least in my German XP with German BB. Gruß Joachim 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xanthos581 Posted September 29, 2009 Share Posted September 29, 2009 When I apply this new Vista patch to a fresh install of CMBB it only displays three Battles, and there are no Operations. What's up with that? Any new ideas on this issue? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SargeFry71 Posted October 12, 2009 Share Posted October 12, 2009 Moon, It has now been a month and a half since I first raised this issue and emailed customer support. No resolution here in the forums and not a word from customer support either. I'd like my $10 back now please. As the forum is the only means of communication, please reply to this post and I will them PM you for the address to which you can send the check. Deal? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loggy99 Posted October 15, 2009 Share Posted October 15, 2009 I just bought the vista upgrade yesterday. After installation I found the following problems: 1. Only three scenarios show and no operations. I tried just about everything (XP compatibility, playing game as administrator, etc) and was unable to change this. Querstion: Does the activation code I was supplied during the purchase process work to fully unlock the original game? In my test and checks it appears to be a hard coded problem as the three scenarios are all in the same folder as all of the other scenarios that do not show. My guess is that the code I was supplied does not turn the game into the full version and perhaps is still showing in demo mode? The program does not have a standard about box that I could find that shows the status of the program. 2. I was unable to edit the scenarios. Attempting to do so resulted in an error code saying that I need to upgrade my program version to do so. Apparently when the program checks the scenario for version number it is not recognizing that version 1.04 is a good version. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Redwolf Posted October 15, 2009 Share Posted October 15, 2009 This lack of scenarios thing is really puzzling. Unfortunately it seems to hard to narrow down to specific components (OS, drivers, installation whatever) to reproduce. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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