Company of Heroes: Eastern Front

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Offline Sommarkatze

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The mod appear to not exist??
« on: December 19, 2011, 07:48:45 PM »


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I try to start the game. Get the launcher. Its looking for updates. And then that one pops up ;C Imo its bullshit because I havent even touched the game files or anything!?
I really dont wanna reinstall it because I have a really sucky internet and it would take like 6 hours to download again. Help me my fellow comrades <3

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Re: The mod appear to not exist??
« Reply #1 on: December 19, 2011, 08:31:02 PM »
After seeing this, I had to add a new entry to our READ BEFORE POSTING!! - List of Issues & Fixes of for your error.

"Eastern Front Mod does not appear to be Installed on your system. Try reinstalling Eastern Front to continue"
This problem usually happens because EF is installed without admin rights(or maybe just bad luck :)), you can try to fix it by reinstalling it and making sure you have admin rights while reinstalling EF. But if you want to fix this by yourself(tough guy huh :P) you can do this:

Open a regedit instance(windows key + R or start menu->run and type regedit then execute) and look for "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\Eastern Front" key, and should store your current EF version information.

If not, you can restore it by running this registry entry:

For x86 users:
Code: [Select]
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\Eastern Front]
"DisplayName"="Eastern Front"
"DisplayVersion"="1.5.0.0"
"URLInfoAbout"="EasternFront.org"

For x64 users:
Code: [Select]
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\Eastern Front]
"DisplayName"="Eastern Front"
"DisplayVersion"="1.5.0.0"
"URLInfoAbout"="EasternFront.org"

If you know how to create registry entries you probably prefer to add them yourself, otherwise, paste it on a text editor(like notepad) and save it as reg file: i.e. filename.reg, where filename is whatever name you like and then double click it in order to add the registry. You can use the script whenever you want, just that everytime you use it you overwrite the old registry so, be sure about what you add there.

The "Display Version" value must be filled with the latest version you have of Eastern Front, if you don't remember maybe it's better to reinstall, but if you are sure about what version you have, you can add it yourself.
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Re: The mod appear to not exist??
« Reply #2 on: December 19, 2011, 09:23:56 PM »
I see. Thank you! I still got the problem however.

I reinstalled it. installed it adminstrative style, the auto patch system went on. Downloaded that. Ready to go! * Unable to locate company of heroes directionary* :C


Edit: Fixed it! Thanks!
« Last Edit: December 19, 2011, 11:32:00 PM by Sommarkatze »

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Re: The mod appear to not exist??
« Reply #3 on: December 20, 2011, 05:20:22 PM »
Ok, since this problem is fixed I lock this.
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