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...found it was actually corrupt (checksum came up different)
...still haven't solved my problem
...solved it by reinstalling the game
...solved it by freeing up space on the partition DoW is installed on
...solved it by either freeing up space on C:\ or moving my "Temp" directory
...solved it by removing any mods I had installed
...solved it by re-extracting files listed in the patch.err
I can confirm that having 2,33 Gigabytes free
disk space on the installation drive lets the patch
do its job.
I also tried with defragmenting the drive. Didn't work.
Only when freeing up additional 700Meg I was able
to run the patch.
Also the patch seemed to hang for me.
Turns out that it really needs a lot of time,
especially with slower hard drives (like mine).
Hope that helps.
lol, you had 75 meg left?
thats seriously bad! clean up or get a new HD, you should notice a difference in performance!
Well, I freed up some space on my hard drive and it worked fine for me. Good luck to everyone else!
Ok, so to sum it up
if your patch fail with a 'corupt' message :
1)free up some space on your hd. the patch need a lot to work properly, 100 meg is obviously not enough.
2) remove additional .lua files (mod, etc) if you have some. If you can't find some of them, uninstall an reinstall a clean game. you need to do the "3)" after that.
3) be sure that you have already installed the 1.01 version . If not, the patch won't work. Also, after the 1.01 install, run at least one time the game before patching with 1.10 patch.
4) If you have a NO CD crack ,
_ or find the original W40k.exe on your CD and copy/past, then retry.
_ or reinstall the game, then do the "3)"
Is there Anything else?
(hope my english is understandable:/)
Last edited by Zefyris; 6th Nov 04 at 1:46 PM.
i can confirm the 'free up hd to atleast 2gig' thing as well
None of the above worked for me.
I've reinstalled, I have no mod files of any kind, I've defragged my system, I have 23 gig free on my drive, and I still get the corruption error.
Now my game is installed on D (it's my default drive though) so that's about the only thing I can think of.
I'm starting to get REALLY annoyed with how this patch was handled but I do want to give a big thanks to all the members of the community that have posted these helpful tips. At least they give us something to try.
- Defragmented
- 28.9 GB of Free Space
- Never ever used a Mod
- Never ever added a badge or a banner
- Tried to reinstall from HDD Folder AND from CD-Rom
- Deinstalled Doom3, AvP2 & Far Cry
- Multiple Reboots
Still the same, stupid, corruption error...
#58
Zabojca, Mafia, how much space do you guys have free on your system partition (i.e. c:\)?
if they have 20 gig free on another partition, i don't think they have like 200 meg on their system partition but, oh well i guess that's possible after all :/.
also,
Mafia2020 and Zabojca, wich language version do you own? is it english version or another one? the file could also be really corrupted, but since you tried all those things, i guess you already tried to dl it again..
so, sorry, can't think about something else right now :/
English Version, and I downloaded the patch from different locations..
hey people, I had the same problem.
I got it working after I downloaded the english (I got the english-version) and the international , and repeated starting them one after another (first int, then eng).
a full reinstall fixed me. wiped ALL previous DoW info to do it (profiles, etc.). not terribly impressed that the patch wouldn't take even though i had a legal exe and no mods. oh well... running now!
edit: for those of you still having the same problem, i did a full uninstall then deleted my DoW directory to make sure. i then reinstalled 1.0, patched to 1.01 (english) and then 1.10 (english) before running the program for the first time. good luck!
#63
New idea, thanks to Corsix. Try this:
(Corsix) I think i found some info on patch corruption
(Corsix) if you get corrupt, look in your DoW folder for patch.err
(Corsix) it should giv the name of corrupt file
(Corsix) eg. ENTRY: W40k.module
(Corsix) then extract the corrupted files from the data files on your CDs
(Corsix) worked for me!
I got it working!
It didn't work at first. I tried everything. Then i uninstalled, deleted the folder, reinstalled and applied 1.01 patch. It didn't help.
But then i unmounted the cd #1 and deleted all DoW images from my drive. Then the patch installed OK.
Before deleting images I had ~1gig of free space and lot more afterwards. And about 3gigs free in my "windows drive".
So solution was to get more free disk space or unmount DoW cd or deletion of DoW images.
ps. Before uninstalling/reinstalling I didn't have DoW images on my computer, so I had lots of free disk space and no DoW cd was mounted. I had tried deleting custom banners etc...
But now it worksWhee!!!
I got it working by reading the patch.err file and re-extracting the file it listed. Worked first time
well i kept my orig exe and waiting on a new NOCD coz i hate having to swap my dam CD's over every time i want to play a diff game
same here trying to find an answer throught IRC network #dawnofwar
Meh, I concede defeat.
Will be defragging tonight, back to HW2 I go!
Attention: The "look at patch.ERR and re-extract those files" fix does not work if you have already tried reinstalling (meaning every possible file has been recently extracted) or if Patch.ERR was blank.
I've got right at 22 gig free on my D drive (which is where my windows, DoW, and everything else is installed). My C drive is 5 megs (all free) and my E drive is the same though it's damaged so I don't use it for anything (though all the space is free of course).
Right now I'm having ALL sorts of problems. I can't uninstall the game normally (through control panel or from the start menu). The only thing that works is browsing the CD and then doing an install which prompts you to uninstall first. But after I uninstall I can't reinstall due to some corrupt or missing data2.cab (or something like that). I've reverted my drive to the time before I uninstalled the game but it still won't uninstall normally...so I can only assume I'll have the same problem. I'm picking up the win service pack 2 and a patch suggested by Moe (thanks again man) and I'm hoping that will fix some of my issues.
Once I'm done with all that I STILL have to get the darn patch to work.
Only exits a English version of the 1.01 patch?
#72
I don't see how defrag would help anything, whether your file is in 30 chunks or 1, it's still the same file.
2,3 GB of free space on the partition with W40K worked for me.
Well congrats to some people who have been able to get this working, and especially to those who post information for others to see. What this tells us is that people who PAY to use software WORK MORE DILIGENTLY AND TEST THEIR SOFTWARE MORE than SOFTWARE DEVELOPERS who are PAID to WRITE THE SOFTWARE IN THE FIRST PLACE.
THIS IS RIDICULOUS
i just got the patch and ran it, it installed just fine...but you should remove the stuff out of the attrib\racebps\ or any of them mods you guys download then it should run foine ^___^
EDIT: i also installed patch 1.01 today
Well I got my game to reinstall finally (don't ask me how, it just decided to). Then I manually patched the 1.01 which worked fine. After that I tried a manual patch of 1.10 and it gave me the error much later than normal (about half way through the patch instead of at the start). But, still, no go.
I tried installing the patch when i login to the DoW multiplayer online mode (after you login) it trys to download the patch, but it always stop at a certain level.
Anyone have the same problem or help?
As to having aproblem actually downloading the patch - go here, there is a list of mirrors.
http://forums.relicnews.com/showthread.php?t=46423
Anyone using corsix's mod manager the patch won't work for, it changes the format of w40k.module slightly and that has somthing to do with the patch(atleast i think... :argh: )
And this is my first post so, hi all!
When i install this patch it crashes with out error message when it is about 2 bars from finishing speech.sga and it crashes to the desktop with no error report or anything. Relic has done it again no mod tools and useless patch
hehe... gee, i strangely remember a certain relic mod saying that they would NEVER release a patch on a friday for reasons like this...
Just confirming Jjb's method, for some reason after clearing the contents of the ( start > run > %temp% ) folder, it worked fine for me, But hey whatever works right.Patch corruption fix #85469:
Had this problem too, with no mods or any alteration to the game.
Using File Monitor (a very useful utility), I noticed the patch was only reading a few files before declaring "itself" corrupt (very misleading error message). from the dawn of war folder ...
w40k.ini
patch.err (empty file?)
And a few misc files from the %temp% folder ( start > run > %temp% )
First thing I did was delete patch.err, no go
Second thing I tried was replacing w40k.ini with the one in the .cab, progress! - now I'm getting the version error
Opened the .ini in notepad and changed the gameversion to 1.01, saved and ran the game once (since I assumed the game would need to fill out some things in the .ini), patch reports it's corrupt again.
So I go back to the DoW folder and nuked patch.err again, the dow\patch folder, and hopped over to %temp% and deleted everything there (might find some files are "in use" if you have lots of programs running, I ignored those)
Patch installed successfully
Summary:
Replace w40k.ini with default from cab, edit gameversion to 1.01, delete patch.err & /patch, clear the contents of %temp% > successful patch install.
I haven't fully tested my game after trying this method, so at best consider it a step before total reinstallation.
Mods can this thread be made sticky so new peeps can find easier?
I have a few guesses at what the problem is. A falty patch.
I have 9.83 gb free space.
I have tried a full clean install (no preivious files).
And I cannot install the patch. I get no errors (mabie a error file, will have to check) but I do get a freeze when it reaches the sound sga (around 90%) of the install.
FluxX: Same here. What I did was end any extranneous processes....then it moved on....
defrag fixed the prolblem for myself. did everything else and still had the problem did ran defrag and it worked.
why dont you guys try www.fileshack.com to get the patch?? simple registration which is free
This sucks... Literally
I have tried all of the things hee and it STILL DOSN'T WORK.
Out of all the other games i'vep layed, this has been the most frustrating to get to work. really pissing me off.
#88
Smoke: We're trying to find fixes to problems here, not bitch about problems. If you don't have have anything to contribute, then don't post at all.
tEM: If you could edit your first post to incorporate the solutions and possible fixes collected in this thread so users don't have to browse through all those posts, that'd be awesome.
I just tried Jjb's method and it did not work. I'm wondering if DoW patches are looking for files to be in C:\Dawn of war or some such. Mine is on Drive E and I consistantly get corrupted patch download again.
#90
deathikins: nope, the patch finds out where your DoW install dir is, probably via the registry entry.
#91
Termight, in case you are wondering where your post went, I split it off into its own thread so we can have a look at your problem seperately, since it seems to be a different one. The new thread is here.
It may have been mentioned already, but just in case:
I finally got the patch to work. All I did was delete my recorded games and screenshots, and moved my profile, banners, and badges elsewhere.
Afterwards, I moved them back, and they still worked perfectly.
I suppose you all have tried this http://forums.relicnews.com/showthread.php?t=46425
It helped my friend but not me and that's strange because our computers and configurations are almost identical.
I was also thinking about the path (like c: and f: or whatever) but I've changed my installationpath twice and it didn't work.
I've actually tried all the things me myself and you guys here have come up with but nothing have helped me. I'm just hoping there will be a better patch out soon so I can stop trouble myself with this problem. But until then we have too keep trying until it does so please give me some new weird things to try.
Moe:
I updated the first post with other fixes.
worked THANKS
I'd like to confirm the 2.3 gig memory fix
#97
Thank you very much, tEM.
Still nothing on my end. I've done everything suggested and like many others it just doesn't work for me (though I am finally back to where I started since trying all of this stuff messed up more things than it fixed). I've been able to get the patch to progress more than before but that's it.
Anyway guys, thanks for all the help but as I see nothing but bugs even after the patch has been installed (from the threads all over the place) I guess I'll just wait until relic addresses the issue.
i've wasted 2 hours trying to get this patch working... i give up now. i hope relic addresses this issue or bye dow.
I've managed to get the patch to work with just 1.7 gig of free space from it not working at 1.3 gig.
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