Recently, I underwent the ordeal of installing TAP on my laptop despite the fact that is in some way damaged. Basically, this meant a lot of clicking "ignore" and waiting during the installation sequence. Once it finished, I opened the game and found a number of problems:
A. The game won't open from its icon, it has to be started by opening "patriots.exe", located in the vanilla RON files. This is tolerable until I find a new copy.
B. Several terrains did not successfully install. From what I can tell, there is some sort of problem with the trees for all of the new TAP terrains except for dirty2 and msteppe autumn, which reuse old trees. Because of this, maps with the terrains autumn, early autumn, late autumn, msteppe2, msteppe3, tropical, and tropical wet cause the game to crash with that horrid little "Exception!" box. This gives a somewhat russian-roulette-ish feel to starting a random game, opening the scenario editor, or playing one of the in-game campaigns, because I never know if I'll actually be able to play or if the game will crash. This bug is not tolerable.
If someone would be so kind as to copy and email me the whole terrain art file from TAP so I can try and fix my game, I would really appreciate it.
NOTE: I am not asking for the entire game, a game key, or anything like that, just a copy of some files that did not successfully install onto my computer. If what I am asking is still unacceptable for whatever reason, please don't ban me, just inform me of my mistake.
email: zerglasalle@gmail.com
Thanks for the help!
A. The game won't open from its icon, it has to be started by opening "patriots.exe", located in the vanilla RON files. This is tolerable until I find a new copy.
B. Several terrains did not successfully install. From what I can tell, there is some sort of problem with the trees for all of the new TAP terrains except for dirty2 and msteppe autumn, which reuse old trees. Because of this, maps with the terrains autumn, early autumn, late autumn, msteppe2, msteppe3, tropical, and tropical wet cause the game to crash with that horrid little "Exception!" box. This gives a somewhat russian-roulette-ish feel to starting a random game, opening the scenario editor, or playing one of the in-game campaigns, because I never know if I'll actually be able to play or if the game will crash. This bug is not tolerable.
If someone would be so kind as to copy and email me the whole terrain art file from TAP so I can try and fix my game, I would really appreciate it.
NOTE: I am not asking for the entire game, a game key, or anything like that, just a copy of some files that did not successfully install onto my computer. If what I am asking is still unacceptable for whatever reason, please don't ban me, just inform me of my mistake.
email: zerglasalle@gmail.com
Thanks for the help!