1.2 Patch: 11 Downloads, All Corrupt!!!

[Kundich]

So, the title kind of says it all.

Is there a sure-fire site from which to download? I think I've tried all those listed at Sega (of course, some more than others): http://help.sega.com/index.php?_m=do...212&nav=0,1,19

Alternatively, I think I can build a patch from the corrupted patch files, with the exception, it seems, of the data2 archive, which seems to have been uniformly corrupt on all my downloads.

I'm just pretty frustrated. Any advice is welcome. And it will be a file I stuff into the 'PRESERVE AT ALL COSTS' section of my archives.


Thanks,
ADM

[irishron]

I have some serious advice from downloading it three or four times before I got a good copy.

1. Turn off or disable everything but your firewall, antivirus, operating system, and the download. That includes all auto-updaters including Windows, instant messaging, file-sharing, Vonage, and any thing else that acts like it wants to make a connection.

2. Start the download and go watch a movie because even with DSL, you're going to be there two to two and a half hours.

Why? One bit in that 650+mb gets messed up, your whole download is useless.

How do I know? Been there, done that.

[Kundich]

Yeah, so my woes continued. I finally put together a 1.2 patch from the non-corrupt elements of the other downloads, but even this failed (triggering the voice1.dat error). Took me a few more days before I learned that I have a hardware issue with my memory. Removing the offending memory resulted in successful installation of M2TW and 1.2. I am about to install Kingdoms, but I'm really not anticipating any further issues--although I will rant here if I do.

And when my replacement memory gets here (maybe a week or so), I may find that a goodly portion of my Empire issues were also a result of this hardware problem. Wouldn't that be nice.


Thanks,
ADM

[irishron]

Be aware Kingdoms can cause memory issues of its own.

Resolved and closed.