Patches?

[Trident]

What is the proper way of installing a patch, i.e. what game folder do you place them in?::cool2:

[Weasel]

Which version you speaking of?

[retired from gaming]

If you have standard installation then no worries, the patch will install there. (I mean winWW2 & winMBT).

[Trident]

Which version you speaking of?

Version 4.0, fro CD

[Weasel]

As far as I know you have to put all the patches in from 1.1 onwards, they are not cumulative. They will automatically install to the correct directory; if you have moved them to say the D drive from standard C then just point the install to the correct mother folder and let it go.

[Walrus]

Hi

To install winSP games from scratch.

Get the original game. Install that.
As Weasel said, then you must install each patch, in order to get to the current version.

If you already had v3.5 installed.
Then, assuming it is in it's 'natural' place on your C drive, the patch will automatically install itself to that directory and patch the older version.

If, as I do, you have more than one version of the game in your C drive...you just need to be careful during the patch installation that you
'point' the installer app to the correct directory that you are trying to patch up.

I wouldn't ever suggest running an application in a PC in anything other than your C drive. It may work for Weasel (?)...but it's not generally recommended.

Good luck

[Vesku]

I wouldn't ever suggest running an application in a PC in anything other than your C drive. It may work for Weasel (?)...but it's not generally recommended.

I need to correct that, it's recommended that only operating system runs on C, everything else on something else if possible. That way your thousands of installs and uninstalls have lesser effect on OS.

[Walrus]

Well, well...we shall have to agree to disagree there Vesku.

I guess my 'system' is primarily put together to run audio recording / editing apps, and the general rule of thumb I have always worked to / been told to use, was to keep all apps on C with the OS and keep all data away on another drive.

It has worked extremely well for me over the last ten years or so (not the same computer obviously...I am on my fourth build now...but that's three years old at least and needs an upgrade pretty bloody soon!) and I am not about to change now.

I guess the logic is that the Apps need to talk to the OS all the time and it's easier / faster if they are on the same drive.
For real time audio manipulation, any lag is a real problem...so keeping the speed of communication up is a priority.

As far as installs and uninstalls being a problem..I tend to keep an eye on the Registry and also am very fastidious with getting rid of things when they are not needed...like 'really' getting rid of them.

So...there seems to be more than one way to set up your C Drive eh.
Who would have thought
Perhaps I am 'wrong'...but I am very happy with the way my old computer deals with the jobs I throw at it.

Cheers
Walrus

[Vesku]

Well, well...we shall have to agree to disagree there Vesku.

I guess my 'system' is primarily put together to run audio recording / editing apps, and the general rule of thumb I have always worked to / been told to use, was to keep all apps on C with the OS and keep all data away on another drive.

It has worked extremely well for me over the last ten years or so (not the same computer obviously...I am on my fourth build now...but that's three years old at least and needs an upgrade pretty bloody soon!) and I am not about to change now.

I guess the logic is that the Apps need to talk to the OS all the time and it's easier / faster if they are on the same drive.
For real time audio manipulation, any lag is a real problem...so keeping the speed of communication up is a priority.

As far as installs and uninstalls being a problem..I tend to keep an eye on the Registry and also am very fastidious with getting rid of things when they are not needed...like 'really' getting rid of them.

So...there seems to be more than one way to set up your C Drive eh.
Who would have thought
Perhaps I am 'wrong'...but I am very happy with the way my old computer deals with the jobs I throw at it.

Cheers
Walrus

As always, it's up to what your priorities are. In your case you seem to have found a suiting solution for your computer. I was talking about the average computer user based on my 10 years in the business :)

[Imp]

Vesku is indeed correct for optimum speed backup & security operating system on C thats it nothing else. Then if like put programs in say D & data in E.
You can now quickly virusscan or backup seperate drives (or partitions) or like work computers tend to be set up hide a drive/partition.
Can also assign your page file to the drive that gets minimal use for speed.
This way backing up C & data means you just reinstall programs if it goes belly up.
With Vista on you are far better putting programs anywhere but the programs folder, never ever install a game there due to microsofts meddling.

Walrus wrote
I guess the logic is that the Apps need to talk to the OS all the time and it's easier / faster if they are on the same drive.

If both applications have to access the drive its slower 2 reads off 1 drive. Seperate drives reading one off each so its marginaly quicker dependant on where page file is of course.