you know its time to move on when....

hi all.

"you know when it is time to move on when...."

I have a good one, to describe what I mean by the above, this happened
to me yesterday.

Last month I finally installed the game OUTCAST on my win98se system.
Installed good, but with my modern directx9, and the usual game bugs, I
knew there were Patches for this game.

I found that the site of Infogames had the version 3.0 patch, i wanted
to get it from them seeing they seem to be the modern 'caretakers" of
this old rpg classic.

I downloaded.
I placed this patch exe in a folder then clicked on it and the patch
install window comes up with first the language choice then a strange
message window follows, without any other options.
" do you wish to uninstall the selected components?"

seeing i have, of course, the cd for the game and no other option, I
clicked the yes and the exe did its thing.

it UNINSTALLED THE GAME!!

---now *there* is a patch for ya!!

Well, I will fire off a copy of this here message to infogames and see
what they say, but There Comes A Time To Move On, I guess........
[when things are *this* flackey, i wonder about all of the rest of this
game?!]

At least for this type of old game that is levels and levels behind my
operating system.

I wonder if some day the whole Genre of "computer games" will "time to
move on"?!!

Not for now, i see good games coming down the pike, but i suspect that
someday.......l

freestone

freestone typed:

Re: Outcast patch
> it UNINSTALLED THE GAME!!

I recall something similar happening to me. I think you're
supposed to use the patch as an installer.

Yep, read the FAQ under 'Installation Problems':
http://www.atari.com/us/support/faq/outcast_pc.asp

"This was a problem found on the European version of the
game... The patch is an alternate installer that will prompt
you for the CD later"
</quote>

> [when things are *this* flackey, i wonder about all
> of the rest of this game?!]

No, the game itself was rock solid and great fun - is very
much worth playing if you can get it to run, even with the
low res graphics.


--
};> Matt v3.2 <:{

<random sig>
According to my calculations the problem does not exist.