Patch Woes

J Henry Waugh · #1 December 29th, 2004, 02:53 PM

Well, in trying to patch up to v2.15, I really ended up with quite a predicament, that has left me unable to play Dom2.

I remembered that when upgrading to 2.12, I had to reinstall from CD, unlock permissions (Mac OS X) and then patch. So, I embarked on this course, but the problem, it seems is I have a bad dom2 CD as I encounter a read/write error when trying to copy the dom2 icon from the CD into my /Applications folder (or any other disk destination). I believe I have backups of the 2.12 dom2 package tree, but I don't think I can patch up from there -- I couldn't even find 2.13 patch anywhere and I remember from patching up to 2.12 that I was unable to "patch up", I had to reinstall from CD and then patch...

I love dom2 but don't think I can fork out another $50 to compensate for a defective CD (though with all the travel I was doing, it may have been a result of luggage degradation...)...

Any other alternatives...?

SurvivalistMerc · #2 December 29th, 2004, 05:54 PM

It would be great if they had some kind of record of who has legitimately bought the game and they would just let us download it onto a "legit" computer. The way they once made the game "phone home" it may be that they have the computers' cpu IDs.

Kristoffer O · #3 December 29th, 2004, 06:18 PM

The patches are still on shrapnels download site even though there is no link. Try these:

http://www.shrapnelgames.com/downloa...tch213_osx.zip
http://www.shrapnelgames.com/downloa...tch214_osx.zip

J Henry Waugh · #4 December 31st, 2004, 07:11 PM

My backups are of my own personal data tree (~/user) and the botched re-install (for eventual patch) corrupted the dom2 /Applications package.

Well, it looks like my only option now is to purchase another copy of the game, as the CD cannot be read...

Edge · #5 December 31st, 2004, 10:16 PM

Don't buy another copy. Mail them your old CD and detail your problems, I'm sure they'll be happy to replace it. A phone call should be all the ground work necessary.

Vicious Love · #6 January 1st, 2005, 05:19 AM

For a quicker solution at the cost of about $5 US, you could just get the CD resurfaced. Unless any of the scratches have actually gone all the way through the pLastic. Hurts me just to think about that.