Unfair!

[Aeshi]

I don't have dominions II version 2.02/2.15 so I can't install the 2.16 patch!This is REALLY unfair!

can you help me please?

[Daynarr]

Version 2.02 is the one that comes with CD. All you need is to make a fresh install and apply the patch.

[Aeshi]

It says "Some file you tried to patch are locked or missing.Patch not applied"

[Alneyan]

Only first edition CDs were 2.02: my own starts at 2.08, some started at 2.06, and current CDs may have other patches.

You should be able to use the 2.16 patch on any version however: what OS are you using? Did you try the 2.15 patch? (Look up the Dominions MP guide on how to get it, as it is no longer available from Shrapnel's main download page)

[Chazar]

I think that I recall that the game must have been run at least once after a fresh install before patching it, for only then some needed directories are created...

...but maybe I recall this wrongly, for this weirdness should be easy to fix for these patches.

[Aeshi]

OSX 10.3.9

Oh and where can I get a MAC(<===Read)Version of the 2.15 patch?

[Endoperez]

Slimefold had the same problem in 2004, the discussion and the solution are in the "Dominions II Technical/Hardware issues" thread, locked on the top of the forum.

I pasted the most important message here:

Problem solved! Dominions 2.02 gets installed in read-only mode. iPatch doesn't override the read-only flag. Before running iPatch, it is necessary to Command-I on the installed dominions2 application and set it to read/write. Then iPatch works fine, straight from 2.02 to 2.14.

Hopefully, iPatch's upcoming new Version will have a more helpful error message, or be able to override read-only (probably a security violation/impossibility, though).

Thanks for the help, Johan!

[PashaDawg]

Yup! I had the same problem, too, but it was an easy solution.

Pasha