I'm having the exact same problem and the microsoft support sites will
only help me if I pay; fat chance! Anyways to those to read this the
problem is stated in two windows whilst downloading the updates for
Rise of Nations: Rise of Legends.
window one: (occures 8 out of 11 files)
Invalid patch: RETAIL -0608.0901.002-0610.1601.0000.RTP
This error (probably) means the patcher is looking for a file, and it's
finding the wrong file.
Either the patch didn't download correctly (errors, unlikely) or you're
trying to patch the game and your game files on your HD have changed or
are modified in some way (more likely).
Assuming you have a retail CD/DVD for the game, you might try
uninstalling (then make sure the program files are removed from your
program files folder and backup your save folder), then re-install from
the CD/DVD and once re-installed right-click on the game icon and choose
"run as admin" the first time you startup the game. See if the auto-
patcher gets everything this time around, if the game has to restart to
patch, let the patcher run then when it's done it might startup the game
again without Admin privledges. If so, quit the game then run as admin
again before checking for updates again.
Repeat until it says no more updates.
If you patched your game with a third party patch, like a No-CD patch
this would cause the patcher to freak out because the way .RTP files
work, is they basically look at the old file and use parts of the new
files to mutate the old file into the new file. Unfortunatly if you
changed the old files in any way the patcher can't mutate the old file
into the new file because the old file doesn't exist or is wrong.
Basically patches can be only like 3-4 megs and effectively patch
hundreds of megs of files into new files. Pretty smart, been doing it
since the 386 days.
Window two: (right after window one)
Unable to establish connection to the patch server(s)
Your game is probably trying to re-download the patch and is failing.
Dunno. If you get the patch to work correctly this problem should go
away. As I said before if the game patchs, and restarts the game
automatically, then quit out, right-click and run as admin again. Make
sure your game is always running "Elevated", or in Admin mode. Once it's
fully patched you shouldn't need to do that.
If all that fails, ya gotta find the patches, download them seperately
and run them as admin from your desktop.
Another simple solution might be to disable UAC before starting the game
(no need to run as admin, you'll always be in admin state). Bring up the
User Accounts control panel, there's a checkbox in there to disable user
account control.
At this rate I'm gona lug my computer around to my
friends houses just to prove who's better at Alin, Coutl, and Vinchi.
If that dosen't work then I'm gona see if i can sue em. After all it's
false advertising to say their product does one thing and it can't;
ever heard what happened to Madam Cleo?
Yeah, good luck with that. If you check the box there are disclaimers
everywhere, you should read small print before you go buying software.
It's a laff riot.
Old game, new problems, hope you all get it goin, I seem to recall that
being a pretty fun game.
It's no C&C red alert, but it's cool.
