About the official patches ...

First, this was Drifter's fix. So, WTG Drifter!..

Here's a pic worth a 200 word thesis.

Hint: Mouse-over and right-click the object and make your selection from the popup menu.

 

Thanks Krunch! Option "B" worked just fine!

B.

1. Make a backup copy of TOEE.exe (in game folder).

2. Open Windows registry editor (start > run... > regedit). Browse to
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE > SOFTWARE > Microsoft > Windows > CurrentVersion > Uninstall
Create new key, called
{AD80F06B-0F21-4EEE-934D-BEF0D21E6383}
Inside it, create new string value, named InstallLocation and modify it with the full path to the game install. Also create new string value, named InstallLanguage and modify it with value 9

3. Run Patch2 setup. It should install the patch.

4. Goto game folder and replace toee.exe with the one you've backed up (keeping the old toee.exe is essential, because it has the copyprotection of downloadable version - upon runtime it decrypts some *.dat files, which are otherwise unusable. TOEE.exe of the CD version and the official patches for it (and the no-CD hacks for those) doesn't have such protection so you can't use them).

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Let us know how it works out for you.[/QUOTE]