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Having trouble going from 5.01 to 5.3 via 5.2

I am assuming its me. I have copies of all three
the full game of 5.01 and the two upgrades. I just cant seem to go the route of getting from 5.01 to 5.3 successfully.

I suspect I am just not doing it correctly in some proceedural way.

Could someone spell it out to me in brain dead simple terms the steps I should take right back to a clean install of 5.01 and then on to 5.3 via 5.2.

My copy of 5.01 works fine
but the system isnt responding in any noticable way to loading the upgrades (or at least I cant see any alteration, other than the game crashes on me)

I have loaded both upgrades, they seem to work fine reboot and all that, but the game shows no sign of running the uprgrades.

Question...how should a person know the upgrade was actually performed?

Originally posted by Les the Sarge 9-1:
Having trouble going from 5.01 to 5.3 via 5.2

I am assuming its me. I have copies of all three
the full game of 5.01 and the two upgrades. I just cant seem to go the route of getting from 5.01 to 5.3 successfully.

I suspect I am just not doing it correctly in some proceedural way.

Could someone spell it out to me in brain dead simple terms the steps I should take right back to a clean install of 5.01 and then on to 5.3 via 5.2.

My copy of 5.01 works fine
but the system isnt responding in any noticable way to loading the upgrades (or at least I cant see any alteration, other than the game crashes on me)

I have loaded both upgrades, they seem to work fine reboot and all that, but the game shows no sign of running the uprgrades.

Question...how should a person know the upgrade was actually performed?

Do you have any kind of TempFile Cleanup program that runs when you shut down your machine? Something like "Window Washer"? I 've noticed that this causes problems on upgrades that require a reboot because sometimes the "washer" program deletes directories or files you need to complete the upgrade. I usually just disable those programs when I do upgrades.
Just a suggestion.

Another thing I've noticed is to make sure you don't touch the default path of the installations of the upgrades. I've seen it were even if you type in the same exact information as the default path the upgrades wind up creating a sub directory within SPWAW and not upgrade correctly. The only way I know to verify upgrades is to get an upgrade successful prompt at the end of each upgrade reboot and start the game to check version numbers. Good luck

I got mine to finally update after several try's, I downloaded the file than unziped it, than I dragged it to my desk top from the winzip box, than I found the spwaw folder using window's explorer, I dragged the unziped file from my desk top to the spwaw folder, this may not be exact but after a few different trys it worked, first I did 5.1 to 5.2 tham 5.2 to 5.3 (Reboot each time) If you do it correctly when you start the game it will say vs. 5.3
Bill

Sometimes clean is best.
I turfed my Steel Panthers then just reloaded the whole damn lot un altered in succession.

Yes it appears that you cant alter path in anyway. I can move file after I guess, but it appears better to just not mess with it.

So I advocate not changing anything. Put the fles where they say they want to go and leave it alone.

This obviously proves there is worth to retaining copies of the original zip files elsewhere so you can say to heck with it and begin totally fresh.

So in my case problem is solved.