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sandsmark / freeaoe

A free game engine capable of running Age of Empires 2 and Star Wars: Galactic Battlegrounds
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How do I get it to accept my aoe2 installation? :D #7

Open withmorten opened 3 years ago

withmorten commented 3 years ago

Now I might be stupid, but even though I'm running it in my aoe2 folder, it won't accept it as a valid installation, and complains about no Data Path being set ...

←[01;33mFailed to get key InstallationDirectory from SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Microsoft Games\Age of Empires II: The Conquerors Expansion\1.0 ←[0m←[2;37m(getRegistryString C:\projects\freeaoe\src\global\Config.cpp:69)←[0m ←[01;33mFailed to resolve game path '' ←[0m←[2;37m(Config::setValue C:\projects\freeaoe\src\global\Config.cpp:363)←[0m ←[01;33mFailed to resolve game path 'G:\Program Files\age2\Voobly' ←[0m←[2;37m(Config::setValue C:\projects\freeaoe\src\global\Config.cpp:363)←[0m ←[01;33mfailed to load: No data path set No error ←[0m←[2;37m(main C:\projects\freeaoe\src\main.cpp:216)←[0m

This is the log output ... which tries to pull something out of my voobly aoe2 dir? Which still doesn't work, even if I put the exe in there.

Any ideas?

sandsmark commented 3 years ago

the windows stuff is very untested, I don't have windows unfortunately.

it seems like voobly might be changing the installation path set in the registry?

but it should pop up a (very ugly) file dialog asking you to set the path manually, does that work?

sandsmark commented 3 years ago

I should probably have made it check in the folder it is running from too, though, I feel a bit dumb for not doing that :p

Lyamc commented 2 years ago

This is still broken. I believe it works with wine when using a linux-style path /home/user/.wine/c_drive/captialization matters but does not work with Windows style C:\Program Files (x86)\CaPiTaLization does not matter\AOE2

Also, the registry locations are incorrect, at least on 64-bit Windows 10

Failed to open registry group  SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Microsoft Games\Age of Empires II: The Conquerors Expansion\1.0 (getRegistryString C:\projects\freeaoe\src\global\Config.cpp:58)

The correct location:

Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\WOW6432Node\Microsoft\DirectPlay\Applications\Age of Empires II - The Conquerors Expansion Trial\Path

I would also recommend leveraging Steam's Registry for the 2013 HD version:

Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\Steam App 221380\InstallLocation