cannot get yitzi patch to run

[Yitzi]

I remember renaming was working previously, but was it around PRACX patch it stopped working?
Maybe now it works. Possibly only PRACX patch applied alone has this "terranx.exe" required name.
Or, it depends how one starts the game.

Could be.  If you start it from the "expansion/original" screen, it probably needs to be named terranx.exe, and I run with PRACX disabled.

[fuze2100]

OK lets see what i did.. ill try some else out like you have mentioned to get 3 and 3.5 .. and what im saying is, i can play normal game just fine in aliens crossfire.. but clicking the downloaded patch thing just closes a quick window..

i still tried to copy the patch files from 3.5 to the game.. see if it did any thing. i haven't seen a difference.

[Yitzi]

OK lets see what i did.. ill try some else out like you have mentioned to get 3 and 3.5 .. and what im saying is, i can play normal game just fine in aliens crossfire.. but clicking the downloaded patch thing just closes a quick window..

i still tried to copy the patch files from 3.5 to the game.. see if it did any thing. i haven't seen a difference.

Hmm...can you open up your Alpha Centauri folder in Windows Explorer and post a screenshot?

[fuze2100]

i have good news.. i can now play patch. it would eems i did need 3.5 and 3.5c as well as to rename the exe file..
thanks to all for the feed back, and having this discussion witch led to ideas coming up to help me out.

thank you

[gwillybj]

 

[fuze2100]

well the patch was a blast, i tried it on the 4 mp map and with 7 factions.  it took me 2 weeks to beat it.
first map where i had to really think about placing each of my bases and how to get the to grow best there. . i was a lone so that ment id win any ways.. but i was amazed how well the other factions played. .

the care takers.. were stupid though, i think they the only time since i played all of my yrs that a faction has 40 missiles and dont use but 4 of them on me..   made him pretty easy to kill that way. . sparta was actually a pain .
 destroyed my air force many times that i sent to help the giains out.  but eventualy we got sparta beat down.
o ver all i like the way things played out..  now if only there was a way to auto plant forest for formers..

[gwillybj]

So happy it's working