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Article #93014Re: Anyone running D3: ROE w/o having D3 "installed"
From: NuQ
Date: Thu, 07 Apr 2005 02:49
Date: Thu, 07 Apr 2005 02:49
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Inglo <ioo@??.ลผลผลผ> wrote: > On 4/5/2005 8:13 PM NuQ brightened our day with: > >> Tried to install ROE, but setup says it can't find an installation >> of Doom3. And technically, there isn't one. I'm running Doom3 from >> my original installation folder which was done on a previous >> installation of Windows. So there's no registry entries and it's not >> listed in Add/Remove programs. Any work-arounds or suggestions? >> >> >> >> > Well you should be able to simply copy over the \d3xp folder from the > RoE disc to your root Doom3 folder... but you have to run the patch > first no matter what. If you can't patch Doom3 to 1.2, you can't play > RoE. If it will let you patch the game (run the patch in the /Patch > folder on the disc) then copying over the folder should work. > > I ended up reinstalling everything, albeit for different reasons, in > order to get everything A-Ok. That's just the way it goes sometimes. Thanks for the suggestions. I tried to run the patch, but it gives me the same error. Can't find installation. I guess a reinstall is the solution. Thanks again.
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