Multiplayer Issue with CD install vs Download Install

By Esgaroth on February 9, 2008 11:20:27 AM from

Esgaroth

Join Date 04/2003

I bought the digital download version of the game from TGN, and a friend of mine bought the retail version in the store. We both updated to the most recent version of the game via stardock, and tried to play in a multiplayer match. When we tried to join the other person's game, we would get a message that the game files didn't match. We both tried a complete reinstall from our respective mediums, and the same problem occurred. The working solution was for my friend to uninstall the game, and install via digital download from stardock, without using his CD.

I don't know if anybody else has encountered this problem, but I figured I would throw it out there so that people know about it.

Our computers are, for the most part, identical. Asus X38 motherboard, Geforce 8800 GTS, 4 GB of RAM, Vista 64-bit edition.

Did he get 1.02 off the website? If you did this while the patch was being posted yesterday evening, you may not have gotten the same version. They should now be identical, though.

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I didn't even know there was a website from which one could get patches. No, we both patched through the Stardock application. At any rate, we've been happily playing most of the day today, so it isn't much of a worry. Just thought I would point it out in case other people experienced it.

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