Community Patch language issues

[Desuclocker 0]

I have a Russian friend. Today we decided to play Sacred 2 online via Tunngle, but couldn't see any games, much less join them. After a lot of googling I found a solution, which was the Community Patch. For my English system/game this worked like a charm. The issue is with his ones, which are Russian. While he was ready to deal with the fact that the patch did not support Russian, having him potentially miss out on a lot of stuff it does, the patch did not, in fact, detect his game at all. We tried switching his display language to English, but it did not help. Can anyone suggest what may be the issue here?

 

The game folder is in the drive's root, so I believe the idea of the search being impeded by Russian symbols, which do tend to cause English programs quite a lot of trouble, would be wrong.

[Silver_fox 397]

In fact, the Community Patch does support Russian, and all its contents are fully translated into Russian language. A lot of Russian players have been using it for several years already and it usually installed without problems. Switching the system to English version was not necessary at all, as the Community Patch installer launches on the Russian system and has Russian interface.

 

As for the fact that your friend had trouble with installing CM patch: To detect Sacred game installed on the computer, CM Patch installer needs a valid registry entry to be present for the game. Up until recent it was also requiring a valid SecuROM entry to be present. From my experience with troubleshooting CM Patch issues on the Russian forums, in most cases when the installer failed to find the game it turned out that the player who experienced such trouble did not own a legal copy of the game or applied any cracks to it.

 

If your friend does own a clean official copy of the game, tell him that before launching CM Patch installer he has to manually patch his game to version 2.65.2 using official patches. If he has Russian Sacred 2 Gold, tell him that he must run the official patches despite what the disc cover and starting screen say about the version. It's a known issue: While the cover and the loading screen state that Russian Sacred 2 Gold is 2.65.2, all its scripts and files are actually patched only to 2.64, so applying official patches is necessary before installing CM. Also, CM Patch installer uses the files in the game's "scripts" folder to determine the installed version of the game, so if your friend has any mods installed that change the scripts (especially quest.txt), he has to temporary remove these mods before installing CM.

[Desuclocker 0]

Thanks. I'll tell him and perhaps post here if we solve the issue.