[belphegore]

After "updating" my HRP release with v5, I have now a shareware Duke3D.grp Yes it was in the first stage my failure, but I think it was the first time that a shareware Duke3d.grp file was included in the HRP package, isn't it?

Okay my question. Anyone know how I could patch my Duke3d.grp v1.4 file from the Atomic Edition to 1.5 under Win7 (NTFS) or WinXP?
I try both but the install.exe (dos) is of course not working...

[Micky C]

If you want to patch up 1.4 to 1.5, go to the 3D Realms downloads site: http://www.3drealms.com/downloads.html and scroll down to Duke Nukem 3D.
There you'll find a line which says "4. ppack15.exe - v1.4 to v1.5 registered patch (673k)"


So download that, and run it in dosbox, which can be found here:http://www.dosbox.co...load.php?main=1 (I'm guessing you'll want to download the windows 0.74 one).
When you run dosbox it shows you some pretty self explanatory instructions so that shouldn't be a problem.
Go to the directory where you installed the patch (btw you should put your 1.4 GRP there before you do any of this) and you should have a brand spanking new duke3d.grp for version 1.5!

Note I've never actually done any of this before so if anyone else can correct me if I'm wrong about anything, that'd be helpful, but what I've said is probably the way to go.

[Hank]

Maybe I'm missing something. But I think that the patch will only correct some bugs of the original game.

All you need to do is copy and paste the dudke3d.grp file from your CD to your file folder where the HRP resides. That it is ver. 1.4 is irrelevant since you will play Eduke32 with HRP. You should find this file under the folder dn3dinst. If Windows opens the installer when you put the CD into the player, simply ignore it and go to your Explorer and access the files from the CD from there.

Hope this help.

[belphegore]

The ppack15.exe is a winzip selfextraction file and will not work in a dosbox and it will also not work after double clicking under windows, because of the dosfiles. But that isn't the problem. As I said I have the patch, as zip archive, and after installing the patch I have this four files:
Patch.exe
Patch2.RTP
Patchme1.exe
ver15.txt

If I execute the patch.exe in the dos.box the patch says it needs a patch.rtp. But I have only the Patch2.RTP...

I read the ver15.txt and maybe I really don't need the patch, because of Eduke32 anf HRP:

1. The major bug was fixing a memory corruption error that definitely
caused the 'slowdown' bug. This bug probably fixed various other
things like some random crashes, and save/load problems. While it
might not fix everything, memory corruption is the worst possible
bug, and this one was fixed and the slowdown/massive caching
seemed to go away. If you still experience lots of disk caching
when playing the game, load SmartDrv at DOS before you play the
game. Typing "smartdrv 4000" works well.
NOTE: You will need more than 8 megs to do this.

2. Fixed a bug where the game would pop up the "Mighty Foot" weapon,
when other weapons were available. Really annoying.

3. Fixed the bug where if you save a game, exit to DOS and reload
from the main menu, you got E1L1 music, no matter what level
it was.

[TerminX]

belphegore, on 18 May 2011 - 09:47 AM, said:

2. Fixed a bug where the game would pop up the "Mighty Foot" weapon,
when other weapons were available. Really annoying.

Off topic, but that one is probably still in EDuke32 even since the source 3DR released was to 1.4 and not 1.5. I've experienced it a few times and I never could figure out the exact condition that caused it to happen, so all of my attempts at fixing it pretty much involved rewriting random bits of likely to be related code and hoping I could never get it to happen again.

[trencheel303]

TX, on 18 May 2011 - 10:13 AM, said:

Off topic, but that one is probably still in EDuke32 even since the source 3DR released was to 1.4 and not 1.5. I've experienced it a few times and I never could figure out the exact condition that caused it to happen, so all of my attempts at fixing it pretty much involved rewriting random bits of likely to be related code and hoping I could never get it to happen again.

I used to get it occasionally before I installed DukePlus. Then it mysteriously stopped.

[belphegore]

Okay, thanks for the anwers.