StarGate Empire at War - Not FOC - Need Help

Hello everyone, for the past month, I've been constantly downloading the patches and installing them and redownloading them cos they didn't work.

Now, and this is to all the modders, I want the instructions for the mods to better translated to English. I also want a Installer/Launcher for the old Star Wars Empire at War Mod (Not FOC) Because i want to play Galactic Conquest.

And this brings me to another one, the Launcher, It doesn't really help me one bit, It downloads files - Yes.
Does it install them, Yes, but here's what bugs me, When it comes to the patches, They give very very unclear instructions, infact, they tell you to put them in the Star Wars, Empire at War Directory (Not FOC) which, in all honesty, really needs fixing.

But I'm not going to put all the blame on the Modders, I'll put some on myself, as I got no clue what I'm doing most the time when installing it. Mainly because of the unclear instructions, Which are the only piece of insight i got to installing it...

Here's and example, for 1.3.1 Patch for FOC, I can't tell if it's for the Mod or the Game, or which game, because it tell you, to put it in the Original Games directory, Does anyone else know where I'm going with it...

Anyways, Thats All i have to say, for the moment.


Edit: Oh Also, another thing, I just realised I forgot this, I was trying to install the Old StarGate Empire at War (Not FOC) and when I try to use the .bat launcher thing, it launches the Original Game, hence why I would love to there be a launcher for the old mod... Thanks for Readings All this.


Admin-Edit (Locutus): Please avoid unnecessary double-posts. Use the edit function instead. Thank you.

I can understand your frustration very good. Yeah, Eaw is such a buggy game. All you need is one single letter at the wrong place in the code or any small detail to be wrong and you get an exception or any other weird error.

The instructions allways depend on the case, thats why they dont allways fit. Our FAQ adresses alot of issues, but yeah. We are currenrly working on clearer instructions.

Edit:

You have to drop the Stargate mod directory (If you want to install them manually) into one of these folders:

for classic EAW:
.\Star Wars Empire at War\GameData\Mods\

for FOC:
.\Star Wars Empire at War Forces of Corruption\Mods\

(Each mod has its own "Data" Directory, which mirrors the Data/Gamedata directoy of the mod and the Game executable simply overwrites (it gives the mod files priority) the content of the Mod-Data over the Game-Data.)

And you are supposed to copy the stargate patches over the "Data" directory of the Mod (NOT the one of the Game), to overwrite them with the patch updates. And this has to be done in the right order: Newest updates over the older ones, aviously.

This process is indeed easier using the Launcher, unfortunately there is no version of the Launcher for the old mod.
However, I can offer you that we will have a look if it is possible to support the old version as well, to implement this function into the Launcher. (I will have to ask the responsible coder about this.)

Well, theres one more question, About the Older StarGate mod for the Older game, I've got the exe. for 1.1, and I've got the exe for the update to 1.2, but, I've run the exe. installer for 1.1 and then Launch the Batch file in the Game Directory that's been created, but it runs the vanila game, not modded, can you help me with this?

Well, I'd install the 1.1 into .\Star Wars Empire at War\GameData\Mods\ and then patch the 1.2 to the same direction right over it.

Or: Install the 1.1 anywhere on your hard disc to get the data extracted from the exe, then install the 1.2 anywhere to get it as well.
Then overwrite the Data directory of 1.1 with the Data directory of 1.2 and drop the result "Data" directory into
.\Star Wars Empire at War\GameData\Mods\Stargate\

Or the probably easiest splution, download and get the 1.3 full version:
www.moddb.com/mods/stargate-empire-at-wa...-13-complete-version

Get it into
.\Star Wars Empire at War\GameData\Mods\Stargate\
and run its bat.


If it still wont work, please open the Bat file in any Text editor and paste its code here (forgot its content) + tell me from which directory you started the batch file.

sweaw MODPATH=Mods\Stargate

My Entire Directory.

D:\Star Wars Games\Star Wars Empire At War\GameData\Mods\Stargate\DATA

Ok the batch file has to run from inside of .\Star Wars Empire at War\GameData

By the way I forgot the "Stargate" directory in the path description of my last post, but I allready changed it and now it is correct.

If it then still wont work, dont know do other mods work correctly for you ?

Ok, Still the same problem, the batch runs, then Star Wars starts, without the modded models, sounds, etc.

This happens sometimes, I never know why.

Do other mods work correctly ?
Please download and try a other one so I know it is the mod or the game.

Can you help me find some Mods for the older Star Wars, empire at war, because EVERYTHING I'm finding is for FOC

Edit:

Nevermind, I've found one

Edit: - 2

I appears to be my installation of StarWars Empire at War, but I've already reinstalled it 3 times now... Is there a fix for this?

Edit: - 3

I've fixed it, I simply just took the DATA folder from the mod and replace it with the Games own Data, (Obviously Making a Backup of it)

Glad you fixed it.

Regarding the request for a Launcher for 1.3:
The team says no.

Not because we couldnt, but because we think the people might think we ceased devellopment for TPC if we support older stuff.