Enige tijd terug heb ik Sacred 2 aangeschaft voor de pc. Nette brave burger dat ik ben... download hem niet... maar koop hem netjes. Maar natuurlijk het zal ook geen pc wezen als dat geen gezeur geeft, de game draaid prima maar heeft nogal wat bugs. Nu zijn hier verschillende patches voor te downloaden om deze problemen te verhelpen. Nu download ik die patch van de sacred 2 website.. en wat geeft dat domme ding.. ik heb de game niet geinstalleerd, moet hem maar opnieuw installeren! Zijn er meer mensen met dit probleem? Ik draai de game zelf onder vista.. weet iemand hier een oplossing voor? Nu schijnt de game in de install directory een sacred2autoupdater.exe te hebben... nou helemaal niks dus!
http://www.nakis-s.info/how-to-update-sacred-2-fallen-angel.html How to update Sacred 2: Fallen Angel Sacred 2 - Fallen Angel could not be located on your system. Re-install Sacred 2 - Fallen Angel and then run this patch again." Does this seem familiar? Sacred 2: Fallen Angel from Ascaron Entertainment seems to have problems with its updating procedure. This might be due to its DRM protection. A lot of different instructions have been given from many people, but not all of them worked for everybody. I summarize here most of those which I believe to be logical to follow (and which I also followed). Before trying any of the following, if you have the UK version, try these: 2.0.2 to 2.40 cumulative patch (international version): http://download.nvidia.com/downloads/nZone/patches/sacred2/Full/Sacred2-UK-INT-2_40_0_0.exe or 2.0.2 to 2.34 cumulative patch: http://www.gamershell.com/download_37266.shtml If the updater starts but stucks at some point, try replacing the Sacred2Updater.dat file with the one found here: http://forum.sacred-game.com/showpost.php?p=724529&postcount=16 If none of these have worked, then read on... There are two distributors of the game; CDV for USA and Deep Silver for Europe. I don't know if there are any more for other regions... You can find some of the patches at http://update.sacred2.com but the older incremental ones are not included in the list. Those you can find at Gamer's Hell patch archive. I have tested the UK version and the links I give are for this version. For USA or other version/region you can use the search results page: http://www.gamershell.com/search/?q=sacred 2 You can also try Filefront: http://www.filefront.com/search_results.php?terms=sacred 2&type=2 or Fileshack (you have to have an account, which is free): http://www.fileshack.com/search.x?type=files&terms=sacred 2 uk&search_for=2&sortby=date&ascdesc=desc Chose the file versions below for you language/region and let's hope they will work Here are the steps to be taken: 1.If you already have the game installed uninstall it and manually delete any leftovers. These are: •Options.txt and Optionscustom.txt: For Windows XP: C:\Documents and Settings\[USERNAME]\Local Settings\Application Data\Ascaron Entertainment\Sacred 2 For Windows Vista: C:\Users\[AccountName]\AppData\Local\AscaronEntertainment\Sacred 2 •Save-Games: For Windows XP: C:\Documents and Settings\[USERNAME]\My Documents\Ascaron Entertainment\Sacred 2 For Windows Vista: C:\Users\[ACCOUNTNAME]\Saved Games\Ascaron Entertainment\Sacred 2 •Log Files: For Windows XP: C:\Documents and Settings\[USERNAME]\Local Settings\Temp\Ascaron Entertainment\Sacred 2 For Windows Vista: C:\Users\[ACCOUNTNAME]\AppData\Local\Temp\Ascaron Entertainment\Sacred 2 Keep in mind that Local Settings and Application Data are hidden and that you need to enable the "Show hidden files and folders" option. Here are some instructions: For Windows XP: http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/helpandsupport/learnmore/tips/hiddenfiles.mspx For Windows Vista: http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/Windows/en-US/help/27e9a81a-fac7-457f-896b-e0017a04a59f1033.mspx File Locations can also be found here. Also, there is a File Cleaning Utility for Sacred 2, which you can download here or here. 2.Turn off your antivirus, as it messes with the copied files. 3.Turn off Windows firewall. 4.Close any opened applications (I had only Windows Explorer and Notepad writing these instructions before running the patches. The DRM file check is VERY sensitive. 5.Make a clean install using disks 1 and 2; don't install the Elite Graphics. When the installer finishes, uncheck the Readme and Run the game options. 6.Update the game using the incremental patches and not the cumulative ones. These are: •Sacred2-UK-2_10_0_0.exe | Mirror1 •Sacred2-UK-2_10_0_0-2_12_0_0.exe | Mirror1 •Sacred2-UK-2_31_0_0.exe | Mirror1 •Sacred2-UK-2_31_0_0-2_34_0_0.exe | Mirror1 | Mirror2 | Mirror3 | Mirror4 | Mirror5 | Mirror6 •Sacred2-UK-2_34_0_0-2_40_0_0.exe | Mirror1 •Sacred2-UK-2_40_0_0-2_43_0_0.exe | Mirror1 | Mirror2 | Mirror3 | Mirror4 Notes These are the latest updates as of this writing. I hope that the problem(s) will be fixed, even though I noticed that during the installation of the last two patches the file check procedure was skipped; for some reason there was no file check. This, of course, was not the case for the cumulative patches, up to version 2.40 (2.02 to 2.40). I read posts about changing the Windows TEMP folder to a drive different than the one that the game's installed to. I did try it but without doing many of the above. What I consider to be critical is disabling the antivirus. When I finally made it, I had changed the TEMP directory back to its original location and I had no problems. I also had plenty of room on that drive (more than 33 GBs). I don't know if this would cause problems in case there was less (insufficient) space. If you're still having problems and want to give this a shot, here are the instructions to do it. I also read about defragmenting the hard drive. I didn't do this either but, I usually defragment my drives anyway (every 1-2 months), so maybe this didn't affect me. There was one interesting post saying the following: When you install the patch 2.0.2 -> 2.12.0, the patcher omits the file speechhq.zip, which later causes trouble patching to 2.34.0(due to a bug in the file list of the patch, I guess), whereas the previous patches update the file correctly. I can't know whether this is true or not, but I do know that it worked.
