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Kyth
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« on: March 26, 2012, 12:37:40 PM »

Hi folks,

This problem has cropped up often enough to warrant a special sticky reminder.

So as a sort of public service announcement, here goes:

If you're a Windows 7 user, please do not, repeat, do not, install your copy of Steel Fury in the 'Program Files' folder. Sooner or later you'll encounter problems with patches, updates and mod installations.

For your own sanity (and ours) please install Steel Fury in some other folder, drive or partition.

Thank you.
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« Reply #1 on: March 27, 2012, 03:37:32 AM »

From experience, ANY graviteam game/patching on windows 7 leads to pain if installed to programs. 
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Kyth
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« Reply #2 on: March 27, 2012, 05:58:03 AM »

From experience, ANY graviteam game/patching on windows 7 leads to pain if installed to programs. 

Agreed.

Some further information about this Windows 7 (and Vista) phenomenon:

The folders "C:\Program Files\", "C:\Program Files(x86)\" and "C:\Windows\" are protected locations.
Any changes to files in these folders may be 'virtualized', i.e. the updated version is actually saved to a different location, under the user's profile folder.
To add to the confusion, evidently this does not happen all the time, or consistently.
So if you're lucky, you might get away with it once or twice, but somewhere down the line, the law of averages will start kicking in. Smiley
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« Reply #3 on: March 27, 2012, 11:42:29 AM »

Thanks......my Steel Fury has always been a thing of mystery with the user missions and having different versions of JGSME?! on my desk top using Win7.
Will start again.  Cheesy

Just been jumpin through hoops getting my AchtungPanzer K43 back on my pc as i bought it from D2D and hadnt reinstalled it since upgrading..
took gamefly 2 months to sort me out.....and then getting it patched was a 'mare too. Still doesnt show on Gamefly as active but can play without using their client which is a bonus   Grin
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« Reply #4 on: March 27, 2012, 03:25:12 PM »

I ended up putting my game on D: drive, just in case,lol.
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« Reply #5 on: March 27, 2012, 03:27:38 PM »

Thanks......my Steel Fury has always been a thing of mystery with the user missions and having different versions of JGSME?! on my desk top using Win7.
Will start again.  Cheesy


I got the same phenomenon.  The mods install updated versions of jsgme on the desk top.  I just kept the older version which was in the game folder.  You could eliminate that one and use one of the newer ones on the desk top if you wished.
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« Reply #6 on: April 03, 2014, 02:44:49 PM »

I am sure this topic has been visited before...

I cannot get Kharkov to install on my Windows 7 laptop.
I select a file (other than in my Programs folder as the destination) and get this:

"Unable to execute file
Create process fail; code 740
The requested operation requires elevation"

Any ideas?

Thanks Ubermenschx
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« Reply #7 on: April 03, 2014, 03:00:09 PM »

Are you trying to install it on your C: drive ?
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« Reply #8 on: April 03, 2014, 03:00:53 PM »

Yes, on my C Drive but not in my programs folder
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« Reply #9 on: April 03, 2014, 03:02:42 PM »

Installing it to:

C:\Users\Kevin\Desktop\Steel Fury- Kharkov 1942 (Download)
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« Reply #10 on: April 03, 2014, 03:14:07 PM »

Any ideas?
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« Reply #11 on: April 03, 2014, 03:18:13 PM »

Try to install:
D:\My_games\Steel Fury_Kharkov_1942\
Perhaps, disk "C" may cause a problem.
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« Reply #12 on: April 03, 2014, 03:19:31 PM »

Sounds more like a permission problem, Rightclick on your shortcut and/or starter.exe and run as administrator Tongue
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« Reply #13 on: April 03, 2014, 03:35:25 PM »

WORKED! Danke!
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« Reply #14 on: March 02, 2015, 06:48:12 PM »

What about the widescreen-bug, i still cant fix it grrrrr Sad
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« Reply #15 on: March 02, 2015, 08:08:13 PM »

Please, check the FAQ here:

http://graviteam.com/forum/index.php?topic=4.0
(last post)

Or here:

http://stasf2008.ephpbb.com/t30-faq-steel-fury

And report if it fixes your problem


Txema
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