HoI III: For the Motherland 3.04 patch

[Marcus]

Halfway through my first Italy game.

-Persia goes Axis in 1940! And gets summarily annexed a few months later.

-JAP rolls over CHI.

-The world is rapidly running out of resources and even European countries that have a little to spare do not want to trade with me. What gives?

-UK AI is gung ho and instead of stabilizing the line at the Suez sends 10+ Divisions to land and Misratah..... which advance three zones and then run out of supply + fuel. Currently mopping up.

-My older subs are getting slaughtered, require constant babysitting. It's not so much the naval combat, as the CAG bombing during the Naval Combat.

-Naval combat (ship to ship) seems to be a lot of ORG dmg, not STR, which is weird, I am sure direct hits from battleships didn't just disorganize the receiving ships.

-UK Air Force seems more relaxed, less Strategic Bombings, or maybe the GER AI has figured out how to stop them.

 

[TheBromgrev]

Seen it plenty, every one has the wrong checksum. See post 207 on prev page, for example.

Yes, I do have the wrong checksum. The only mod I'm using is the CMP though (for province changes in China), which shouldn't have any effect on gameplay. At least it better not since it's going to be handed over to you guys in a few days.

 

[natejersey]

Aloha...game seems to be working ok.my biggest problem is the theater ai sending lots of units to obscure out of the way places(64 divisions in split, 114! divisions in a port on the eastern black sea).playing as Germany, 1944, annexed soviet union&most of Europe...if i manually move them, then reconnect them to the ai, it just sends them right back...have ftm 3.04...

 

[comsubpac]

Yes, I do have the wrong checksum. The only mod I'm using is the CMP though (for province changes in China), which shouldn't have any effect on gameplay. At least it better not since it's going to be handed over to you guys in a few days.

did you have the right checksum before you installed the mod? i had the problem myself and a clean install fixed it.

 

[fabius]

Gamersgate version with Checksum of FDAJ. Is that ok or bad?

 

[comsubpac]

Gamersgate version with Checksum of FDAJ. Is that ok or bad?

its okay as far as i remember.

 

[fabius]

Thank you comsubac.
Thank you x2 because I think you helped in the Tech forum too.

I had a real problem getting a clean reinstall with Vista but some of the helpful posts in the Tech forum lead me to a way to install cleanly. Will post what I did in the Tech section

Anyway, it's playing ok, and having a ball.

 

[TheBromgrev]

did you have the right checksum before you installed the mod? i had the problem myself and a clean install fixed it.

Honestly don't remember. I guess a complete reinstall wouldn't hurt, although I installed over a clean copy of SF, so theoretically this shouldn't be the problem.

 

[JASGripen]

Honestly don't remember. I guess a complete reinstall wouldn't hurt, although I installed over a clean copy of SF, so theoretically this shouldn't be the problem.

Vista/Win7 loves to use hidden directories containing, often with old files. You could try to install bin a new directory in order to confuse tbhis wonderful OS feature.

 

[Soapy Frog]

I have the the Steam version (KMZO), will I be able to play a multiplayer game with someone who has the Gamer's Gate version?

 

[comsubpac]

I have the the Steam version (KMZO), will I be able to play a multiplayer game with someone who has the Gamer's Gate version?

as mentioned several times: no, since you have different checksums.

 

[Soapy Frog]

Well that's a bit of a poke in the eye. How are we supposed to get our MP game going? Is there a means by which the checksum can be circumvented?

 

[Comm Cody]

I have gotten the Error of "For the motherland not installed" when trying to run this patch. Could if be related to the fact that I installed FTM on a different computer and moved onto my gaming computer which has internet problem?

 

[comsubpac]

I have gotten the Error of "For the motherland not installed" when trying to run this patch. Could if be related to the fact that I installed FTM on a different computer and moved onto my gaming computer which has internet problem?

yes, since it doesn't create the necessary registry entries that way.

 

[Comm Cody]

Okay. Is it possible for me to get a zip file of the patch contents?

 

[comsubpac]

Okay. Is it possible for me to get a zip file of the patch contents?

no.

 

[TheBromgrev]

Vista/Win7 loves to use hidden directories containing, often with old files. You could try to install bin a new directory in order to confuse tbhis wonderful OS feature.

Well, since I use Win XP that isn't the problem. Anyway, I did a reinstall and it worked just fine after reloading the game. I guess the Steam installer didn't do a complete or correct install over SF, but it worked just fine after the game was deleted and it installed the game from scratch.

 

[Xerjin]

Are we saying XP is the better version of Windows??? lol

 

[wright1331]

Vista/Win7 loves to use hidden directories containing, often with old files. You could try to install bin a new directory in order to confuse tbhis wonderful OS feature.

I have vista still and couldnt get HOI3 to fully uninstall so that i could do a clean, fresh reinstall.
Then I used a registry cleaner (CCleaner). After I uninstalled HOI3 I used CCleaner and it found 5 HOI3 files still on my PC. After running it and cleaning out these files I was able to do a "fresh" install and got the correct checksum the very first time.

 

[zweihander]

what about 3.05?