Warhammer 40k: Dawn of War Forum

Hello all! I'm trying to patch Dawn of War to 1.5 and whenever I try to start with the lowest patch possible (it is necessary to work your way up through the patches starting at 1.4) I get this error. "Patching error:The patching system cannot located the game. Please ensure the game is currently installed on your system." Please help me!
Sincerely, Gahoo

Hi,

What OS system are you running? What retail version of the game do you have? (patching won't work if you 'borrowed' the game)

Have you read this over in the Tip & Tricks?

Multi CD workaround / Copy protection fix
Installation for Dawn of War and the expansion Winter Assault required swapping out CD's. Testing with the 'Anthology' collection, 
I couldn't get Crossover to 'eject' the CD to continue installation

Workaround: Copy contents of each CD into one folder. autoplay.ini is on each CD so I kept CD1's and 
skipped the files from the rest of the CD's.

Now all that remains is to install software through Crossover using the 'select installation folder' method. 
Use this procedure with Winter Assault too.

However! Out of the box DoW v.1 ships with copy protection. This means that the game needs to have CD1 inserted to play. 
I found that Crossover wouldn't 'mount' the disk, meaning that DoW would return an official error and not load up.

The solution to this is to download the combo update from the relic site
http://88.198.39.149/~dowpatch/, all the way up to 1.51 installing as normal through Crossover. 
The good news is that 1.51 patch removes the copy protection meaning the game loads up without 
any further problems. (There are further problems with the CD key validation for online play, 
but this error is covered on the relic site 
http://forums.relicnews.com/showthread.php?t=51566

Thanks I've already looked through that. I got it all straightened out. I just had to re-install Dawn of War.

Hi I've tried all these and still can't get this damn thing running.

I've managed to get the DoW game installed from the Anthology using the folder method described above with a Win2000 bottle. After installing the game shows a 'no disc' message. Fair enough, so I've tried the patches...for days...and tried and tried and just end up in tears!
According to the install I have the English version so....

I've installed as recommended in the Hints & Tips and added the patches through CrossOver > File > Open >
I run patch 101 and nothing happens (I can only find one type of 101 file and not sure if there's an English and International)
Run patch 110-English and am told it's not compatible with my language version (?)

I get told the same thing if I try the international 110 patch on a different bottle, how does that work then?

I'm running CrossOver 7.0 with the DoW Anthology (English?) on a MacBook Pro 2.5Ghz Intel Core 2 Duo OSX 10.5.3, even tried it through XP on Parallels but still get shot down at the patching stage.

Can someone please give me a hand before I start asking CrossOver for a refund that's not their fault?

Cheers

Hi Marcus,

Sounds frustrating. I'm afraid since you've tried what's laid out in the tips & tricks section I can't help you, because I can't replicate the error here. It's interesting that it won't work with Parallels so I'd suggest you enquire with the games forum over at relic.

Obviously, if you're running a cracked game you should know you won't be able to install updates, but I'm sure you're not...

Thanks for the reply Steve, I'll try the Relic forums as I thought it was going to be related more to the patches/game than CrossOver.
And yes I'm using an original copy of the Anthology :)

Good stuff. Please make sure you pop back and let us know how you solved it once you get there.