Yet an other patch problem

[tiller]

I can't get the patch to work either. I downloaded the patch(2 times, different locations same error) but as soon as I press next, I get a
"Patching error. The patch file apperrs to be corrupted"

I then reinstalled the game, installed patch to 1.0.1 (English) started the game, stopped the game and tried to patch to 1.1.0 but still got the same error:

System information:
Fully patched windows 98 se with an readon 9500.
The file patch.err is empty(0 bytes)

The content of warnings.log is
------ warnings.log start ------
W40K started at 2004-11-07 15:00
OS Win 4.10, 768MB Physical Memory
RUN-OPTIONS
WORKING-DIR C:\Program Files\THQ\Dawn of War
USER Martin

15:00:11.9 MATHBOX -- Version=5, Cpu=AMD Athlon:f=6,m=6, Mode=SSE
15:00:12.0 GAME -- Warhammer, 1.01, Build 57117.44353
15:00:12.0 GAME -- Available memory: 767MB RAM, 1280MB Pagefile
15:00:12.5 State::State - set socket send buffer to 131072
15:00:12.5 State::State - set socket receive buffer to 65280
15:00:12.5 HostState - 172.16.39.215:6112 / 172.16.39.215:6112
15:00:12.5 Session : Now Host
15:00:12.5 Session : We are now a Host
15:00:12.5 PeerState - 172.16.39.215:6112 / 172.16.39.215:6112
15:00:12.5 PeerState::ConnectCallbackHost - connecting to host at 255.255.255.255:6112
15:00:12.5 GSTransport::Connect - GT2AddressError
15:00:12.5 GSTransport::State::SendSystemEvent - error sending to (255.255.255.255:6112 -1 6112) using socket (error 10013)
15:00:13.4 SPOOGE - Driver[Dx9 : Hardware TnL] on adapter[0], version[4,32]
15:00:13.7 SPDx9 -- Driver Name = ati3duag.dll Device = \\.\Display1 Desc = RADEON 9500
15:00:13.7 SPDx9 -- Driver Vendor = 0x1002 Device = 0x4144 SubSys = 0x901517EE Rev = 0x0000
15:00:13.7 SPDx9 -- Driver Version Product = 0x0004 Version = 0x000E SubVersion = 0x0001 Build = 0x00E3 (227)
15:00:13.7 SPDx9 -- Driver GUID = {D7B71EE2-0204-11CF-BD74-14B0A1C2C935}
15:00:14.6 SPOOGE -- 174.00MB available texture memory
15:00:14.6 SPOOGE -- 174.00MB available texture memory
15:00:15.7 GAME -- Beginning FE
15:00:17.5 MOVIE -- Opening movie 'movies:relic_intro.lua'
15:00:49.9 MOVIE -- Closing movie 'movies:relic_intro.lua'
15:00:49.9 MOVIE -- Opening movie 'movies:dow_intro.lua'
15:02:53.7 MOVIE -- Closing movie 'movies:dow_intro.lua'
15:02:54.3 MOD -- (mod manager) W40k, 1.0
15:02:54.8 MOD -- (mod manager) Failed to load Folder 'W40k\Data_Shared_Textures\Full'
15:02:54.8 MOD -- (mod manager) Failed to load Folder 'W40k\Data_Sound\Low'
15:02:54.8 MOD -- (mod manager) Failed to load Folder 'W40k\Data_Whm\Low'
15:04:33.2 GAME -- Using player profile tiller
15:04:38.5 GAME -- Ending FE
15:04:38.6 MOD -- (mod manager) shutting down
15:04:39.0 SPOOGE -- 172.00MB available texture memory
15:04:39.0 SPOOGE -- 174.00MB available texture memory

Application closed with error code -1
------ Warnings log stop -------------

I got 1.2GB free space on C.

I hope to get this solved soon, as I want to play the game online again :}

ps: If you can't determine why the patch faills for some users, how about simply making a big .zip file with all the files that have changed, which the user then could extract to the dow directory. (It might be big, but better a large download, then a game I can't play)

Martin Tilsted

[Jay-]

Please make sure you've read this thread:

http://forums.relicnews.com/showthread.php?t=46429

[tiller]

I did read that thread, and the newest post(Which were posted after my bug rapport) did indeed solve the problem. The patch utility need more then 1GB free harddisk space. (Something like 1.5GB seems to be enough), so not I can play again :}

Note to relic:
A: Include more correct error messages in your next patch :}
B: Please include a MD5 sum on your webpage and a small utitity to calculate the md5 sum, so most users don't have to download the patch more then once, just to be sure it is not corrupt.

C: How about including a NO CD feature with the next patch. They exists anyway, and there are problems with some cd drives such as mine, where starting the game is a nightmare because the game just give me the "Unable to locate cd" error message in 2 out of 3 tries. So it take a lot of time for me to actuelly start loading the game -(

[Moe]

tiller: glad you got it to work.
No, a no-CD crack will most likely never be included. A and B sound like very sensible suggestions to me though, you could put them in the suggestion box (http://forums.relicnews.com/showthread.php?t=42648)