Installing the Game + Expansions
Posted: Tue Jun 07, 2011 3:59 pm
First, I want to thank David and Chris Dean at NWS, from who I purchased the base game, for helping me resolve the issue related to the FoG base game. Terrific customer support, guys, and I greatly appreciate your responses.
Now, I would appreciate any advice you can give me about how best to install the game plus all the expansions. I may have screwed that up:
Once I was able to run FoG, I installed it, along with the 5 expansions. After installing the base game (and manually updating it to v. 1.5) I installed the expansions in whatever order I happened to pick them up, rather than in the order in which they were released. It tuned out that the first one I installed was Legions Triumphant. It (like all the later expansions) went into the basic game directory, which on my computer happens to be E:/Matrix Games/Field of Glory. When I opened it, I saw what I expected to see: ie, the opening screen showed that I had version 1.56 (I think), and in the lower left, it showed that I had "Ready" both FoG and LTR.
I then installed the other expansions (I think RoR was the second I installed). So far as I can tell, each of the expansions went through its own update process without a hitch. At the end of it all, however, the opening screen showed v.1.1.1, and the comforting message in the lower left, that told me which expansions were "Ready" had disappeared. When I clicked on "New Game" and examined the scenario list, it appeared only to include scenarios from one of the games -- most likely basic FoG or maybe RoR. I could identify none of the scenarios from SaS, Immortal Fire, or SoA.
Is my best course of action at this point to re-install the 1.5 patch? If I try to do that, I get a message that says I already have v. 1.56 installed, and asks if I really want to overwrite that. I suppose that I got upgraded to 1.56 during the installation/update of LTR. Or should I uninstall the whole kit and kaboodle and reinstall the games in a specific sequence?
Part of my problem is that I don't know what the intro screen is supposed to look like once all the expansions are installed, and I'm not sure how to access the expansions if not through one of the menus ("New Game"?) that lists the available scenarios. Am I correct that all of the expansions get installed in the same directory as the basic game? That appears to be the default.
Any advice would be appreciated.
Now, I would appreciate any advice you can give me about how best to install the game plus all the expansions. I may have screwed that up:
Once I was able to run FoG, I installed it, along with the 5 expansions. After installing the base game (and manually updating it to v. 1.5) I installed the expansions in whatever order I happened to pick them up, rather than in the order in which they were released. It tuned out that the first one I installed was Legions Triumphant. It (like all the later expansions) went into the basic game directory, which on my computer happens to be E:/Matrix Games/Field of Glory. When I opened it, I saw what I expected to see: ie, the opening screen showed that I had version 1.56 (I think), and in the lower left, it showed that I had "Ready" both FoG and LTR.
I then installed the other expansions (I think RoR was the second I installed). So far as I can tell, each of the expansions went through its own update process without a hitch. At the end of it all, however, the opening screen showed v.1.1.1, and the comforting message in the lower left, that told me which expansions were "Ready" had disappeared. When I clicked on "New Game" and examined the scenario list, it appeared only to include scenarios from one of the games -- most likely basic FoG or maybe RoR. I could identify none of the scenarios from SaS, Immortal Fire, or SoA.
Is my best course of action at this point to re-install the 1.5 patch? If I try to do that, I get a message that says I already have v. 1.56 installed, and asks if I really want to overwrite that. I suppose that I got upgraded to 1.56 during the installation/update of LTR. Or should I uninstall the whole kit and kaboodle and reinstall the games in a specific sequence?
Part of my problem is that I don't know what the intro screen is supposed to look like once all the expansions are installed, and I'm not sure how to access the expansions if not through one of the menus ("New Game"?) that lists the available scenarios. Am I correct that all of the expansions get installed in the same directory as the basic game? That appears to be the default.
Any advice would be appreciated.
