Install Order

[Blacksnake]

This is my first time here, so Hello everyone.

First, here is my hardware:

Motherboard Abit KG7 RAID
Processor Athlon XP 2100+
Memory 2 GB of Corsair
Hard Drives Twin 300 GB Maxtors in a RAID 0 configuration
Video Card VisionTek Radeon X1600XT XGE
Sound Card SoundBlaster Live! Platinum 5.1
OS Windows XP Professional

With that being said, if anyone sees a glaring hardware conflict, we won't end up wasting our time by trying repeated upgrades.

The problem I'm having is that Warzone, even when using the 1.11 upgrade and the 2.0.6.0 Windows installer, unpredictably crashes back to the desktop. Either The game just "disappears", or I get the message that Warzone.exe needs to close, and I'm asked if I want to send an error report.

Before I uninstall the game and all its remnants, I'm wondering if there's a special order in which I should install all of this. Usually, I uninstall everythng, let the system spend the night running a chkdsk /r (there are no bad sectors). Then I let a full defrag clean everything up. Then I install the Windows installer and reboot. Then I install the original CD and reboot. Then I install the 1.11 patch and reboot. Then I run the game, let it play out the intro and start a new game. I've never run or entered into an online game, so everything's single player. Crashes seem to happen anyway. Am I doing this right, or should I be doing something differently?

[Kreuvf]

The problem I'm having is that Warzone, even when using the 1.11 upgrade and the 2.0.6.0 Windows installer, unpredictably crashes back to the desktop. Either The game just "disappears", or I get the message that Warzone.exe needs to close, and I'm asked if I want to send an error report.

Before I uninstall the game and all its remnants, I'm wondering if there's a special order in which I should install all of this. Usually, I uninstall everythng, let the system spend the night running a chkdsk /r (there are no bad sectors). Then I let a full defrag clean everything up. Then I install the Windows installer and reboot. Then I install the original CD and reboot. Then I install the 1.11 patch and reboot. Then I run the game, let it play out the intro and start a new game. I've never run or entered into an online game, so everything's single player. Crashes seem to happen anyway. Am I doing this right, or should I be doing something differently?

Your problem is that you are trying to play different versions of Warzone 2100.

Original Warzone 2100 --> last official version: 1.10
Warzone 2100 Resurrection Project --> last stable version: 2.0.10, last beta version: 2.1 Beta 2

Both are not compatible with each other. Before you ask: The original videos may only be played with the original version. As the videos have been freed a month ago they will be included in an upcoming release of the WRP version. So if you want to play with videos, you are currently better off using the original version. If you want to play in multi player mode vs. other gamers, you should consider using the 2.1 Beta 2.

And those many reboots are unnecessary. You can install the WRP version and play it without the need to restart your computer.

[Blacksnake]

The problem I'm having is that Warzone, even when using the 1.11 upgrade and the 2.0.6.0 Windows installer, unpredictably crashes back to the desktop. Either The game just "disappears", or I get the message that Warzone.exe needs to close, and I'm asked if I want to send an error report.

Before I uninstall the game and all its remnants, I'm wondering if there's a special order in which I should install all of this. Usually, I uninstall everythng, let the system spend the night running a chkdsk /r (there are no bad sectors). Then I let a full defrag clean everything up. Then I install the Windows installer and reboot. Then I install the original CD and reboot. Then I install the 1.11 patch and reboot. Then I run the game, let it play out the intro and start a new game. I've never run or entered into an online game, so everything's single player. Crashes seem to happen anyway. Am I doing this right, or should I be doing something differently?

Your problem is that you are trying to play different versions of Warzone 2100.

Original Warzone 2100 --> last official version: 1.10
Warzone 2100 Resurrection Project --> last stable version: 2.0.10, last beta version: 2.1 Beta 2

Both are not compatible with each other. Before you ask: The original videos may only be played with the original version. As the videos have been freed a month ago they will be included in an upcoming release of the WRP version. So if you want to play with videos, you are currently better off using the original version. If you want to play in multi player mode vs. other gamers, you should consider using the 2.1 Beta 2.

And those many reboots are unnecessary. You can install the WRP version and play it without the need to restart your computer.

1.) I thought the Windows installer I was using, i.e., 2.0.6.0 was something to make the original run on Windows XP. If not, then what are those for?

2.) What are these videos that you've mentioned?

3.) I installed the upgrades, eventually leading up to 1.11, because the original wouldn't allow you to save one player skirmishes. Do the WRPs replace the upgrades?

[Kreuvf]

1.) I thought the Windows installer I was using, i.e., 2.0.6.0 was something to make the original run on Windows XP. If not, then what are those for?

The original Warzone 2100 and the Warzone 2100 Resurrection Project Warzone 2100 are two different things. You may read the article on wikipedia on Warzone 2100.

2.) What are these videos that you've mentioned?

The original game contains videos, the current versions of the WRP do not due to legal problems. These legal problems have been resolved which is why the videos found in the original will be included in an upcoming version (technically not 100% correct as the videos will have to be transcoded into another format as Eidos' RPL-stuff is not GPL'ed).

3.) I installed the upgrades, eventually leading up to 1.11, because the original wouldn't allow you to save one player skirmishes. Do the WRPs replace the upgrades?

Upgrade 1.11 is no official upgrade by the original programmers of Warzone 2100, Pumpkin Studios. It is not necessary for proper playing of the original Warzone 2100 under Windows XP. 1.10 is the last official upgrade and it allows you to save one player skirmishes.

The WRP versions do not replace any upgrades or data of original Warzone 2100 installations. You can even have both versions, the original and the WRP, in parallel and play them without problems such as one version interfering with the other (as long as common sense is used).

The main difference between original WZ and WRP WZ is that original WZ is no longer supported by anyone (no upgrades and stuff). WRP WZ works on all major OSes and with the upcoming 2.1 even more features that are multi-platform-compatible will be available.