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Siege University II Tutorials Modding FAQ 095: Upgrading DSII 100: The Basics of Siege Editor 201: Compass Map Radar 202: Conversations 203: Journal 204: Quest Indicator Icons 205: Start Positions 206: Teleporters 207: Town Portal Restrictions 208: Weapon Effects 209: Flick 210: Tuning Grids 211: Setting Up Good Map Lighting 212: Setting Up Simple Node Fading 215: Building Data Tables Siege University I Tutorials 200: Concepts and Terminology 201: Templates 203: Triggers 204: Moods 205: Fades 206: Elevators 211: Naming Key 213: Dungeon Siege Resource System 301: Introduction to Dungeon Siege Architecture Third Party Tutorials A Simple Mod Part One - Armor Textures A Simple Mod Part Two - A New Armor Beginners Guide to Stitching Regions How to Open and Create Tanks Making Chants Work in a New Map Ornaments Understanding the NKK Useful Links Siegetheday.org Dungeon Siege Outpost Dungeon Raider Kdawg.org - List of useful Links MCarp DS Nodes Dungeon Siege 2 at Gamefront Broken World at Gamefront | AbstractNOTE: If you've installed Dungeon Siege 2: Broken World, then you are already running v2.3 of DS2. There is no need to read this document any farther. Whether you’re going to be using Siege Editor for DS2, or just want to be current to get fixes, you should patch Dungeon Siege 2. Right off the CD, you’re installing v2.0 of Dungeon Siege 2 (I’m going to call it DS2, from now on). The Siege Editor 2 works with DS2 v2.2 (or higher, I suppose, when there is one), so you’ll need to patch the game once you’ve installed it. Patching it will also update existing files to fix problems. You can find the latest patch for DS2 at http://www.gaspowered.com/ds2/patch.php on the www.gaspowered.com web site. The v2.2 patch can be used on v2.0 or v2.1 of Dungeon Siege 2, and requires 5 Gigabytes of hard drive space. SizeThe (current) DS2_Patch_22 patch is about 12Megs in size and is a single self-extracting EXE file. When you double-click it, tell it to run... ...and it will extract the 6 files it needs – these 6 files take up an additional 12 Megs. The main file is GPGupdate.exe, which should get run automatically once the unzipping finishes - but you can just double-click on it if it doesn't run. The other files appear to be instructions to DS2 on how to patch the existing game files, rather than new files to replace old files. Unfortunately, the patch process needs around 5 Gbytes of free hard drive space (the v2.2 patch says 2.5GBytes, but it’s been confirmed on the web that it may need 4GB or more), as it edits the various files in the game’s RESOURCES folder and those files are big (and compressed – to edit the files it has to temporarily uncompress them). How much free space it needs on a hard drive depends on whether you’re running on a dual drive machine or not. NOTE: Do not try to install the patch over a network. Folks have reported that this doesn’t seem to work. When the patching is done, it will automatically try to start the game – so it’s a good idea to keep the Disk1 in the CD tray. NOTE: You can’t use GPG’s patches to update NoCD (i.e. hacked game EXE) versions. It’ll just fail before it finishes. VerificationOnce the game starts up and you get to the Main Menu, look in the lower left corner and it should say Version - 2.20 , like so: If so, then you have a running copy of DS2 v2.2 and can delete both the DS2_Patch_22.exe file and the folder you installed the patch files into. If you don’t get the 2.20 on your screen, the patch didn’t complete properly. Failure/ErrorsError 15 – Old File does not exist.The patch program knows what size each file it’s going to patch should be. It check’s the file’s CRC and size, so that it knows the file it is about to open and edit is good. If the file is not correct, you get this message (because it can’t find the correct “old” – i.e. current – version of the file). Usually, you can tell what file it is trying to work on. Sometimes the DS2 installer doesn’t do a good job installing the file. It may be corrupt. So, first thing to try is to merely copy the file over from the original disks. Each of the files in the game’s RESOURCES folder can be found on one of the DS2 disks, in a RESOURCES folder. The file in the game’s MAPS folder can also be found in a similar folder on Disk 4. Another possibility is anti-virus or spam-blocking software. Both of these types of programs may consider the patch program’s attempt to open and edit an existing file as an attempt at infecting the files, and be blocking it. Try shutting off any of these programs, until the patching is done. Can't create output file:C:\DOCUME~1\Y\LOCALS~\Temp\patchw32.dll"This message comes up when you first run the patch file, and it is trying to extract the files it needs. One of these files it extracts is patchw32.dll. The cause of the error is the folder it’s extracting to. There probably is a file with this name in the folder already and, for some reason, the patch won’t overwrite it. Either delete the files in the Temp folder, or just install the patch to a different directory. Note that in this error, ‘Y’ would be replaced by your Windows login name. No error message, but no “Versions – 2.20” either.Probably you’re using a NoCD version of DungeonSiege2.exe. Since this file is much larger than the expected retail EXE with all sorts of things in different places, the EXE won’t patch. You’ll need to put the retail EXE, from the DS2 disk, back in the game folder. Another reason this happens is that the patch program GPGupdate.exe can't find the game. Did you install the game, then move it? Sure, you can run the game when you do that, but patches can't find the game. See, patches (and the DS2 Toolkit) look for a registry entry ( HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Microsoft Games\DungeonSiege2\InstallationDirectory ) that DS2 writes when it's installed to find out where DS2 is. So, if you move the game folder, GPGUpdate.exe can't find the game - and it doesn't give you the option to specify an alternative way to find it. So, move DS2 back to the original installation location, run GPGupdate again, then you can move the game back where you want it after the patch is done. |