Installing LV ovr 7.1

[Henri]

OK, just a suggestion to save frustration. Why don't you put a sticky thread up on how to install the LV megacampaign over SPWaW 7.1? I wasted over half an hour looking on the CD for a readme and on the forum for instructions before giving up and doing what I thought I remembered reading somewhere but couldn't remember where.

So here is what I did that worked. I uninstalled SPWaW 7.1 (sweating...)and installed everything anew from the CD, which installed both SPWaW 7.0 and the LV megacampaign. I then downloaded the SPWaW 7.1 patch and the LVMC patch 1 and installed them in that order. Everything seems to work well. I didn't download the patch 2 for LVMC yet because I undersand that its purpose is to make the campaign harder (I'll play a bit first to determine if I really need a harder campaign...).

And BTW, when I originally tried to install only the LVMC from the CD by clicking on the second line with that name, the computer always locked up and I had to alt-cntl-delete out to get control back.

I like the idea of having the computer choose my units for me as in LVMC, contrary to many this is the part I hate most about Steel Panthers. After all, commanders did not have a list of units to choose from before they went into battle, they took what was given to them. Thise who decided what units to use where not those who fought the battles...

Now besides keeping my wife content, I have to split my time this weekend over LVMC, Starships unlimited and Morrowind. Life is tough...

Henri

[Supervisor]

To ease your mind these instructions had been posted as a sticky for quite some time, but when no one views it for over a month it's time to unstick it. The problem with LV CD is that the install LV MegaCamapign only option that you descibed is looking for a file on the CD called upgrade.exe which didn't exist. The file it should have looked for is update.exe, this would have installed the LV Mega only. Which you could have done by manually selecting this file. They way you did it is fine. You could have just installed LV full install over current SPWAW version, first option this install SPWAW 7.0 and LV all at the same time, then reapplied the 7.1 patch and then LV 1.1 patch. 1.2 doesn't make it much harder, it corrects the issues of T-26M33 with T-34 attibutes and 2 scenarios were redone, "Reconnaissance to Radziechow" and "The Army's Door Knocker" to make them less predictable and harder to get a DV. Don't forget to get the LV sound patch also.