Company of Heroes Expansion beta..

w00

 

hmm nice is this a full working demo or an addon to the existing full game?

 

Downloading btw

 

i can install it on XP , but when i tried with vista ...sofar it doesnt want to install

 

You need a key to activate it

 

Mani : whats your email ?

 

Mani, PM sent your way.

 

As outlined in this Anandtech article http://www.anandtech.com/systems/showdoc.aspx?i=3060&p=1 - Vista allocates entire blocks of RAM resources for video when used by DirectX 10 applications (games especially).

This makes it especially hard for 32 bit Vista as it can only address up to 2 Gb, or you only (yeah only ) have 2 Gb to play with --- RAM gets used quickly (especially w/ SLI) and errors may result.

As a result MS has a hotfix here http://support.microsoft.com/kb/940105 that will be released on the 8/23 - but you can contact MS to get it sooner, although I have not tried yet.

MS warns that they need more testing, so your YMMV.





http://thehotfixshare.net/board/index.php?showtopic=3657 is the link and the warning

You are about to download the file 'Windows6.0-KB940105-x86.msu'. Please take a moment to review the following disclaimer. Afterwards click the 'Download File' button to download the file.
Warning: These Hotfixes have not gone through full Microsoft regression testing. Specifically, these Hotfixes have had targeted testing which does not include testing in combination with other Hotfixes. You are encouraged to only install the specific Hotfixes needed to address the problem you have. Please carefully review the associated KB article for each Hotfix you install to verify that this is the fix you need and that there are no known compatibility or installation issues.


From what i read on the forums , the fix will offically come out on the 23rd of august...

 

tried what they are saying and still get the access is denied , so not sure what's going on...still reading around .

 

http://www.relicrank.com/bloggo/2007/07/31/its-working-go-gogoogogogogo/


Ok i went to this link and did what they say about going to creating a new shortcut and doing it admin command..



How to install the executable from an administrative command prompt (thanks clemedia):

“Right click on your desktop and create a new shortcut

for the location of the shortcut type in cmd.exe

name it whatever you want it doesn’t matter

right click on that new shortcut and choose “run as administrator”

in the command prompt navigate to the directory you have the installer in…….if you have it on the desktop you would get there by typing in:

cd\Users\[your windows username here]\Desktop

then type in the name of the installer:
COH_OF_Beta_Setup.exe

and press enter…….bingo,done.”


got it to install , now doing the patches and see what happens