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General Discussion / Re: Eastern Front Download and Installation Guide
« on: November 04, 2010, 09:12:51 PM »
My installation tips that I think will help others:
On attempt to run the newly downloaded file it errored saying folder name cannot contain any of the following characters / : <>*. The installer default wants to make a program group called Company of Heroes: Eastern Front. Notice the :? I removed that to proceed.
Once installation finished I didn't have a desktop icon to launch the mod. So I hit Windows Start, browsed to the new "Company of Heroes Eastern Front" folder yet there was only a button to uninstall. I searched forums and found that you need to launch the game from “EF_Launcher.exe”. It’s not in the Windows program folder Company of Heroes Eastern Front with the uninstall option, but instead is in in my COH directory. My own directory happened to be "E:\Games\Steam\steamapps\common\company of heroes\EF_Launcher.exe". I found it by doing a full computer hard drive search on "EF_Launcher.exe".
I launch the file EF_Launcher.exe from Windows Explorer. It comes up with a little window, play or update. Clicking on play immediately recognized I was in an old version, so it updated from their server. I had to manually browse to the correct Steam subdirectory each time it wanted to update (4 updates I think as of Nov 4, 2010).
Now that the mod is fully updated and installed, I click on Play and it says it can’t find the location of my COH directory. I click on the Settings menu option on top. In lower right hand corner of settings there’s a COH directory Field, and it was blank. I paste the STEAM directory again and save. My own happened to be E:\Games\Steam\steamapps\common\company of heroes.
The game now launches to a familiar COH start screen with Multiplayer, Skirmish etc. From there play as you would COH, with the Soviets now a 3rd option under Allies.
On attempt to run the newly downloaded file it errored saying folder name cannot contain any of the following characters / : <>*. The installer default wants to make a program group called Company of Heroes: Eastern Front. Notice the :? I removed that to proceed.
Once installation finished I didn't have a desktop icon to launch the mod. So I hit Windows Start, browsed to the new "Company of Heroes Eastern Front" folder yet there was only a button to uninstall. I searched forums and found that you need to launch the game from “EF_Launcher.exe”. It’s not in the Windows program folder Company of Heroes Eastern Front with the uninstall option, but instead is in in my COH directory. My own directory happened to be "E:\Games\Steam\steamapps\common\company of heroes\EF_Launcher.exe". I found it by doing a full computer hard drive search on "EF_Launcher.exe".
I launch the file EF_Launcher.exe from Windows Explorer. It comes up with a little window, play or update. Clicking on play immediately recognized I was in an old version, so it updated from their server. I had to manually browse to the correct Steam subdirectory each time it wanted to update (4 updates I think as of Nov 4, 2010).
Now that the mod is fully updated and installed, I click on Play and it says it can’t find the location of my COH directory. I click on the Settings menu option on top. In lower right hand corner of settings there’s a COH directory Field, and it was blank. I paste the STEAM directory again and save. My own happened to be E:\Games\Steam\steamapps\common\company of heroes.
The game now launches to a familiar COH start screen with Multiplayer, Skirmish etc. From there play as you would COH, with the Soviets now a 3rd option under Allies.