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trying to run Empire at war: Gold pack

I'm having trouble installing the gold pack. I get the install screen to come up and it make the noise when i hover my mouse of the the button, but when i try to click, nothing happens. I can't even exit or minimize the small screen.

I found that choosing the option to use an installer file and selecting the setup file on the DVD at path /EAWX/setup.exe works. I originally thought it was due to the Steam package not being installed, or maybe the Adobe Flash missing since the install program seems to be using some sort of flash. I installed the Steam package into the bottle first and then did the install. Not sure if it was necessary or not. The setup installs the Empire At War (EAW) first and then the Forces of Corruption Expansion (FOC), so have you two product keys ready.

This works to get the game installed but then you are faced with the same flash-like interface when you try to play the game. Once again, the buttons do not trigger any actions when you select PLAY.

I got it to run. Basically you have to do the same sort of thing to run the game as you did to install.

  1. Open the bottle that holds the game
  2. choose to Run Command and browse to the appropriate file. I would also elect to create a launcher in order to not have to navigate through the directory over and over. The program files are as follows:

EAW := /Program Files/LucasArts/Star Wars Empire at War/GameData/sweaw.exe
FOC := /Program Files/LucasArts/Star Wars Empire at War Forces of Corruption/swfoc.exe

I played an EAW campaign for about 15 min and got zapped with a Windows failure message. It gives its usual cryptic debug information that makes my frontal lobe start to burn in with frustration when I read it. My guess is that there is something else missing. I hope this helps someone else to figure it out the rest of the way.

I needed to install after EaW and the extension DirectX from the supportet list. Cause launching game made just screen go black and nothing was going, after that it runs when u start it the way described here. But... the geame seams to run ok with one exception- I dont see terrain textures, i see my unints walking on pitch black map. If u turn the view sequence from your units point of view terain is normal, has anybody had this?

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