Transfer of game to another PC

[Ballbarian]

JR77,
Have you tried simply copying the entire dominions3 folder from laptop to desktop. If not, then try that and run the dominions exe from the new folder. Dominions is beautifully self contained and does not rely on any clumsy registry entries. That may not be the problem, but it is certainly worth a try. I transferred my entire dominions install between winXP machines and to my Vista machine and it has ran without a glitch. I can't remember if there were any running server games at that time, but I suspect there was at least one. Can't remember for certain now.

[thejeff]

I have definitely transferred games between PCs. I picked up hosting of a game when the original host had to drop out. It worked fine.

There should be no issues. Nothing should require copying the actual executable and other files in the install directory. Obviously any mods & maps should be copied and the versions should be the same.

Permissions issue maybe? Make sure all files in the game directory are both readable and writable by the user running Dom3.

I can't really think of anything else. You could send them to someone else to see if they have the same issue.

[JR77]

Thank you all for the suggestions, I will try when I get home. I think the permission thing could be spot on. Otherwise I will try a complete copy.