patching

forrest · Post by **forrest** » Mon Oct 04, 2004 4:51 pm

PLEASE EXPLAIN WHAT THIS MEANS. I HAVE DOWNLOADED THE PATCH WHEN I TRY TO LOAD IT I RECEAVE THIS MESSAGE ,< THE PATH DOES NOT EXIST >. HOW DO I FIX THIS PROBLEM ? THANK YOU GOING THROUGH WITHDRAUGHS

Top Gun · Post by **Top Gun** » Mon Oct 04, 2004 5:41 pm

Try using the Australian version of the patch. And stop shouting

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MD-2389 · Post by **MD-2389** » Mon Oct 04, 2004 8:20 pm

1. Typing in all caps is the equivilent of SHOUTING in someone's ear and is frowned upon by just about everyone for obvious reasons. Trust me, we can read your post just fine WITHOUT IT LOOKING LIKE THIS.

2. Use the search feature before making a post. You'll find that this has been discussed on many occasions.

That being said, there were two versions of the game released in the US. The US version, and the Aussie version. Like Top Gun said, try the Aussie patch if you haven't already. If you bought the jewel case version of the game, you have to run the jewel patch before running either of the 1.4 patches. You can get the jewel patch here

If you have the Mercenary add-on, install that before installing the 1.4 patch. Merc is v1.3.

forrest · Post by **forrest** » Wed Oct 06, 2004 3:54 pm

Thank you for your help. I think the problem might self inflicted I accedently hit open with internet explorer, and that changed the icon. I dont know how to fix that.Sorry about yelling.

MD-2389 · Post by **MD-2389** » Wed Oct 06, 2004 4:05 pm

Btw, if you want to get into multiplayer, you'll want to hit up d3.descent.cx.

If you have any questions regarding multiplayer, click me and ask there.

forrest · Post by **forrest** » Wed Oct 06, 2004 6:15 pm

I uninstalled d3 then reinstalled redownloaded the USA & AUSSIE patches still the same problem. <The path does not exist> Still the mulitiplayer games show internet explorer to execute.Please advise computer illiterate trully illiterate. Also may have a small problem spelling. Thank you all.

MD-2389 · Post by **MD-2389** » Thu Oct 07, 2004 11:08 pm

You have to specify the directory Descent3 is installed to. Usually its "C:\games\descent3" by default.

World War Woodi · Post by **World War Woodi** » Fri Oct 08, 2004 2:58 am

You need the duel jewel patch fix, you've got the bundled version of D3 that came with mercenary expansion. Before you patch with 1.4, you need to get the duel jewel patch so the 1.4 patch will take.
Download it to your desktop with no other programs running but IE. Load mercenary and D3, if you have XP find D3 in the directories then drag the icon for the duel jewel patch onto the D3 directory and it will apply itself to the game, this fixes the error <the path does not exist>. After that drag and drop the icon for the 1.4 update on the D3 directory, it will apply correctly this time. If you dont know about directories and such things, get someone to help you with that.
Hope it helps.

Top Gun · Post by **Top Gun** » Fri Oct 08, 2004 7:44 am

woodi, as far as I know, dragging and dropping the patch into the D3 directory won't do anything more than move the .exe file into that directory. You have to physically run the patch and specify which directory D3 is installed in. Good catch on the dual-jewel, though; I keep forgetting about that

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MD-2389 · Post by **MD-2389** » Fri Oct 08, 2004 11:08 am

Top Gun wrote:woodi, as far as I know, dragging and dropping the patch into the D3 directory won't do anything more than move the .exe file into that directory. You have to physically run the patch and specify which directory D3 is installed in.

Correct.

Good catch on the dual-jewel, though; I keep forgetting about that .

Funny, I mentioned it in my initial post in this thread....even linked to the PD D3 patches page with the fix. Don't ya love it when people skim posts?

Top Gun · Post by **Top Gun** » Fri Oct 08, 2004 11:30 am

I should be annoyed at myself, seeing as how I'm the one who uploaded it to PD in the first place

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forrest · Post by **forrest** » Fri Oct 08, 2004 6:17 pm

Thank you for your help I'll try again.let you know!

forrest · Post by **forrest** » Fri Oct 08, 2004 7:02 pm

You guys are the greatest.It worked,it worked,it worked.Now I am off to the games.I am in your debt, maybe some day I will be able to help you out.

World War Woodi · Post by **World War Woodi** » Sat Oct 09, 2004 3:02 am

Ahh yes I think your right, I had to do so many things to get it to work I must have forgot how I finally got it in there.