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I recieved this game as an early xmas present, downloaded the only thing i could find, version 1.23. I installed the game on 2 seperate machines and when I try to load it i get a dialog indicating the MFC42d.dll could not be found. Both boxes I installed to are XP.

to expound further, I develop MFC applications for a living and to receive this type of error during an installation is an indication that your QA group/person has failed to test this release package. Further more the install procedure did not create folders in the Start menu. I hope this is not an indication of the quality of the product that some has paid $50 for.

Please point me to a version of this game that I can download, or just send me the source and I'll fix your product for you.

yours,
msc

Hi, you are actually the first one to report this. So it is not a general problem with the installer etc.

Could you please tell us where exactly you downloaded from? How big is the file size that you downloaded, could be a interrupted or corrupted download.

Hi mcovert,

ORIGINAL: mcovert
I recieved this game as an early xmas present, downloaded the only thing i could find, version 1.23. I installed the game on 2 seperate machines and when I try to load it i get a dialog indicating the MFC42d.dll could not be found. Both boxes I installed to are XP.

to expound further, I develop MFC applications for a living and to receive this type of error during an installation is an indication that your QA group/person has failed to test this release package. Further more the install procedure did not create folders in the Start menu. I hope this is not an indication of the quality of the product that some has paid $50 for.

As Marc said, we've run the installer and it definitely doesn't generate that error and also does create folders in the Start menu. This sounds like you have either a corrupted installer or something is seriously interfering with its operation.

What is the exact name, size and date/time of the installer file you are executing? Do you have any other programs running in the background while it's running, particularly anti-virus or other security apps?

Also, as long as you have your order info, you can always re-download from www.findmyorder.com.

Regards,

- Erik

Thanks for the response, I agree that this is not an installer issue.

I downloaded from this site:

http://www.matrixgames.com/games/downloads.asp?gid=333
the file size of the zip is 5,583,041 bytes.

I simply unziped the file and ran the installation program, the results where placed in Program Files folder.

as you can see below in the output from dumpbin the executable is requiring several dlls, the ones whose name end in 'D' are not present on my XP system32 folder. Their retail versions, ie not ending in 'D' are.

ZMicrosoft (R) COFF/PE Dumper Version 8.00.50727.42
Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.


Dump of file Forge of Freedom.exe

File Type: EXECUTABLE IMAGE

Image has the following dependencies:

Graphics.dll
Economy.dll
Archai.dll
Maps.dll
ZTileButton.dll
ZTileDialog.dll
ZFancyText.dll
ZListBox2.dll
WINMM.dll
ZFGDialog.dll
MFC42D.DLL
MSVCRTD.dll
KERNEL32.dll
USER32.dll
GDI32.dll
ADVAPI32.dll
MFCO42D.DLL
ole32.dll
MSVCIRTD.dll

Summary

23DA000 .data
4B000 .rdata
3C000 .reloc
42000 .rsrc
228000 .text

ORIGINAL: mcovert

I recieved this game as an early xmas present, downloaded the only thing i could find, version 1.23. I installed the game on 2 seperate machines and when I try to load it i get a dialog indicating the MFC42d.dll could not be found. Both boxes I installed to are XP.

to expound further, I develop MFC applications for a living and to receive this type of error during an installation is an indication that your QA group/person has failed to test this release package. Further more the install procedure did not create folders in the Start menu. I hope this is not an indication of the quality of the product that some has paid $50 for.

Please point me to a version of this game that I can download, or just send me the source and I'll fix your product for you.

yours,
msc

Just to clear up some confusion on my part mcovert, are you trying to download the patch or the game? The error is similar to something I got once when I tried to patch a corrupted game without re-installing the game

ORIGINAL: mcovert

Thanks for the response, I agree that this is not an installer issue.

I downloaded from this site:

http://www.matrixgames.com/games/downloads.asp?gid=333
the file size of the zip is 5,583,041 bytes.

I simply unziped the file and ran the installation program, the results where placed in Program Files folder.
..............

Hi, what I suspected. You have downloaded the patch, not the full game installer.

The people that made you this present should have all the information you need to download the main application file.

mcovert,

ORIGINAL: mcovert
Thanks for the response, I agree that this is not an installer issue.
I downloaded from this site:
http://www.matrixgames.com/games/downloads.asp?gid=333
the file size of the zip is 5,583,041 bytes.

Are you aware that that is the patch file and not the full game at all? The full game has ton be downloaded from our store, then you can apply the patch to that installation. The full installer is over 700Mb, rather than under 6Mb. [8D] That's why you got no start folder and no system files.

Regards,

- Erik

Apparently it got through his QA process ...  [:D]  I'm ribbing you, c'mon laugh.

i guess i should have read the documentation.

LOL
I am glad we got that one sorted out

I had the game, had to redownload the installer version so we could test the installer, then got the beta, and then had to download the newer installer to test it again

and yes it worked for me