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Company of Heroes Expansion beta..

Discussion in 'Upcoming Games Discussion' started by Asp, 15 Aug 2007.


  1. Asp

    Asp Administrative Officer Officer

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    On fileplanet now..

    Fileplanet beta link

    The only question now is, why are you still here looking at this post? :p

    More nazi-shooty goodness..
     
  2. Tbeast

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    w00
     
  3. Hamma

    Hamma Commanding Officer Officer

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

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    Downloading btw :p
     
  5. Asp

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    It says its a standalone game demo so you shouldn;'t need the original to play, but I don't know how it would limit you in terms of the forces you could choose..

    Same goes for the actual release, it may be standalone too, but you may need the original to play with the older units maybe?

    Though I hear you can have the new stuff used against you (once released) even if you don't have the expansion.
     
  6. Tbeast

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

    Manitou Old War Horse DragonWolf

    No access to FP - means someone must upload to accessible site. ;)
     
  8. Hamma

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    You need a key to activate it :(
     
  9. Manitou

    Manitou Old War Horse DragonWolf

  10. Tbeast

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    Mani : whats your email ?
     
  11. Sentrosi

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    Mani, PM sent your way.
     
    Last edited: 15 Aug 2007
  12. hmmm...i'm angry too...?
     
  13. Manitou

    Manitou Old War Horse DragonWolf

    So I went to the FP site and what do you know, my account was still good! Thanks for the offers guys! Share the wealth with others!
     
  14. Tbeast

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    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...
     
    Last edited: 15 Aug 2007
  15. Asp

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    That made my head hurt.. Does that mean you're going to get to play TB? :p
     
  16. Tbeast

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

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    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
     

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