Hi Gruntus,
Does the "Invalid Patch" mesage actually mean anything? Yes, it does...
To keep the download size to a minimum, the Rise of Nations updates
are mostly a delta update. A delta update contains the differences that
are found between newly versioned and original files. If the installed
files have become damaged or modified before the update, RON is
unable to successfully modify the file because the contents of the file
differ from the expected contents. To resolve this issue please visit:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/832803
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Gruntus Wrote:
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| Unfortunately, the account I installed the game with and the account I update
| (and play the game) with are the same: admin account.
|
| Does the "Invalid Patch" message actually mean anything, or is this a
| generic message that means 1 of 100 things may have occurred?
|
| "Jimmy S." wrote:
|
|| Hi Gruntus,
||
|| One reason could be that you don't have the same priviledges
|| on the account that you are playing the game with as you do on
|| the account that you installed the game with. Check to be sure
|| that you are able to patch the game with the Administrator account.
||
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|| Cheers, *Windows_XP_MVP_Shell/User*
|| Jimmy S.
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com
||
|| Visit my MSN Games and Windows Gaming Help Site:
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|| MS Games Help and Support Center:
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|| My advice is donated "AS IS" without warranty; nor do I confer any rights.
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|| Gruntus Wrote:
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||| G'day,
|||
||| Thanks for the information provided. I will attempt those items where
||| appropriate to see if this makes any difference. The only question that I
||| have is that the information below appears to relate more to application
||| errors, rather than updating errors.
|||
||| P.S. Is there any reason why the autoupdater won't at least patch up the
||| versions that it is able to download & verify?
|||
||| "Jimmy S." wrote:
|||
|||| Hi Gruntus,
||||
|||| The following applies to most games in general, and not just to the games that
|||| may be listed in the KB Article refered to in this post.
||||
|||| SYMPTOMS:
||||
|||| When you start or play any one of the games that is listed in the "Applies to" section, you may experience one or more of the
|||| following symptoms:
||||
|||| ..The game stops responding.
|||| ..The game quits unexpectedly.
|||| ..The computer restarts unexpectedly.
|||| ..The game encounters an error and needs to close
||||
|||| Additionally, you may receive the following error message after you receive the Gathering Exception Data dialog box:
|||| <Game Name>has encountered a problem and needs to close.
||||
|||| RESOLUTION:
||||
|||| Method 1: Restart your computer by using a clean boot procedure
|||| Method 2: Remove and Reinstall the Game
|||| Method 3: Adjust graphics hardware acceleration
|||| Method 4: Disable AGP Texturing in the DirectX Diagnostic tool
|||| Method 5: Temporarily disable the sound card in Windows
|||| Method 6: Lower sound acceleration
|||| Method 7 : Download and install the most recent version of DirectX
|||| Method 8: Update your video driver
|||| Method 9: Update your sound driver
|||| Method 10: Scan your computer for viruses
|||| Method 11: Remove spyware
|||| Method 12: Install the latest VIA chipset drivers
|||| Method 13: Create a new user account in Windows XP
|||| Method 14: Change the compatibility setting
||||
|||| Detailed instructions and video clips are published at:
||||
http://support.microsoft.com/?scid=kb;en-us;303032
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|||| Cheers, Windows XP MVP Shell / User
|||| Jimmy S.
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||||
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|||| MS Games Help and Support Center:
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