GS v2.10 Installer -- Need Help Checking Out

[guronsan]

after install, when I try to launch the game, nothing is appear... perhaps a very fast dos-windows.
must the game be installed in my old CEAW file (1.12) ?

[rkr1958]

after install, when I try to launch the game, nothing is appear... perhaps a very fast dos-windows.
must the game be installed in my old CEAW file (1.12) ?

Yes. The installer is an upgrade and requires the CEaW base game.

[gchristie]

I mean that on first attempt to install the mod was installed to the wrong location. I had to change the location the mod was installing to to make it work. Not a big deal but some users may not know how.

[ferokapo]

I just tried the installer on a clean install of MH CEaW Gold 1.12 on a German Win7 machine. There is a bug regarding the target directory:

The installer initially chooses the correct target directory (in my case "C:\Program Files (x86)\Slitherine\Military History Commander - Europe at War GOLD"), but when I accept this value and continue the installation, the installer changes the target directory to "C:\Slitherine\Military History Commander - Europe at War GOLD" for the actual installation. It announces this new, wrong target folder already in the final "Ready to Install" message window, where you can't change it anymore.

However, when I choose to browse for the target directory and manually select the (correct) default folder (again, "C:\Program Files (x86)\Slitherine\Military History Commander - Europe at War GOLD"), the installer then uses this correct value and the install goes without a glitch and GS2.10 is starting up as it should.

As a side note, when I had to uninstall the first installation, it ended with the error message "On Post Uninstall, line 176: Argument 2 must be of type string. Stack Traceback: 1: [On Post Uninstall] line: 176 in main chunk." However, it then displayed a message window telling me the uninstall was successful (which it was, as far as I can tell).

EDIT: I thought that part of the problem could be the target directory of "Program Files (x86)", because it's Win7 64-bit. So repeated the procedure on an English 32-bit WinXP. Same results: CEaW gets installed in "C:\Program Files\Slitherine\Military History Commander - Europe at War GOLD", GS2.1 installer initially chooses that as destination, but then switches to "C:\Slitherine\Military History Commander - Europe at War GOLD". Browsing for "C:\Program Files\Slitherine\Military History Commander - Europe at War GOLD" works. HTH.

[guronsan]

I try again to install 2.1 in the CEAW directory.
When I launch the game , the first screen appear and a quick dos-window... and then nothing !
an error file appear in the directory. It's a message that describe why th error occur :

"#
# An unexpected error has been detected by HotSpot Virtual Machine:
#
# EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION (0xc0000005) at pc=0x6d6ce879, pid=1776, tid=2528
#
# Java VM: Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (1.5.0_16-b02 mixed mode)
# Problematic frame:
# V [jvm.dll+0x8e879]
#

--------------- T H R E A D ---------------

Current thread (0x00de7d38): JavaThread "main" [_thread_in_vm, id=2528]

siginfo: ExceptionCode=0xc0000005, reading address 0x00000000"

and so on...

What can I do ?

[rkr1958]

I try again to install 2.1 in the CEAW directory.
When I launch the game , the first screen appear and a quick dos-window... and then nothing !
an error file appear in the directory. It's a message that describe why th error occur :

"#
# An unexpected error has been detected by HotSpot Virtual Machine:
#
# EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION (0xc0000005) at pc=0x6d6ce879, pid=1776, tid=2528
#
# Java VM: Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (1.5.0_16-b02 mixed mode)
# Problematic frame:
# V [jvm.dll+0x8e879]
#

--------------- T H R E A D ---------------

Current thread (0x00de7d38): JavaThread "main" [_thread_in_vm, id=2528]

siginfo: ExceptionCode=0xc0000005, reading address 0x00000000"

and so on...

What can I do ?

This seems to indicate that the GS update is installing to the wrong directory. Can you confirm and post to which directories both the update and your base game are installed to?