

Moderator: TM-Patrol
Zahl wrote:Sooo, to give some additional information on this (more or less useful, as you will see)
1st: I'm using Win2003, so the results of my experimenting *might* be pointless for
Vista users, but hey, I was bored so I started playing around with the patch...
So what did I do?
Well I own the german PowerUp Version of TM (Should be 1.2.5)
Updated to Original (1.5.0)
Now tried to install the patch (1.5.2), but the installer claimed I don't have
Original on my PC. Fired up Regmon to find out where the installer tries to
get its information from. Faked the missing keys into the registry, so the
installer finally worked and I updated to 1.5.2... Yay, the new Starforce
dialog box looks like TMU's now (asks me for a reboot, so I did).
And after the reboot.... It asked me to insert the TMO Disk... o.O
So it seems (like others already claimed here) that this patch really ONLY
works for the TMO-out-of-the-box Version you can buy. It won't recognise
your TM PowerUp (or older) disk anymore.
No luck for PowerUp-Disk owners... OR maybe its really just because
I'm using Win2003, but I doubt that.
yosemite wrote:Could you please share with me the registry entry that you said you faked?
I know this is an old post, but I'm having the same exact issue where I bought Trackmania from eBay and updated using the Update button in the launcher. When the game didn't launch, I tried to apply the 0.1.5.0 to 0.1.5.2 patch, but it told me that it can't find TmOriginal on the computer.
Thanks
Zahl wrote:Sooo, to give some additional information on this (more or less useful, as you will see)
1st: I'm using Win2003, so the results of my experimenting *might* be pointless for
Vista users, but hey, I was bored so I started playing around with the patch...
So what did I do?
Well I own the german PowerUp Version of TM (Should be 1.2.5)
Updated to Original (1.5.0)
Now tried to install the patch (1.5.2), but the installer claimed I don't have
Original on my PC. Fired up Regmon to find out where the installer tries to
get its information from. Faked the missing keys into the registry, so the
installer finally worked and I updated to 1.5.2... Yay, the new Starforce
dialog box looks like TMU's now (asks me for a reboot, so I did).
And after the reboot.... It asked me to insert the TMO Disk... o.O
So it seems (like others already claimed here) that this patch really ONLY
works for the TMO-out-of-the-box Version you can buy. It won't recognise
your TM PowerUp (or older) disk anymore.
No luck for PowerUp-Disk owners... OR maybe its really just because
I'm using Win2003, but I doubt that.
yosemite wrote:Ok, I managed to change the registry and get to the point where it asks me for the CD, but now what? I have the CD but it doesn't recognize it. Is that the end of the road?
yosemite wrote:Could you please share with me the registry entry that you said you faked?
I know this is an old post, but I'm having the same exact issue where I bought Trackmania from eBay and updated using the Update button in the launcher. When the game didn't launch, I tried to apply the 0.1.5.0 to 0.1.5.2 patch, but it told me that it can't find TmOriginal on the computer.
Thanks
Zahl wrote:Sooo, to give some additional information on this (more or less useful, as you will see)
1st: I'm using Win2003, so the results of my experimenting *might* be pointless for
Vista users, but hey, I was bored so I started playing around with the patch...
So what did I do?
Well I own the german PowerUp Version of TM (Should be 1.2.5)
Updated to Original (1.5.0)
Now tried to install the patch (1.5.2), but the installer claimed I don't have
Original on my PC. Fired up Regmon to find out where the installer tries to
get its information from. Faked the missing keys into the registry, so the
installer finally worked and I updated to 1.5.2... Yay, the new Starforce
dialog box looks like TMU's now (asks me for a reboot, so I did).
And after the reboot.... It asked me to insert the TMO Disk... o.O
So it seems (like others already claimed here) that this patch really ONLY
works for the TMO-out-of-the-box Version you can buy. It won't recognise
your TM PowerUp (or older) disk anymore.
No luck for PowerUp-Disk owners... OR maybe its really just because
I'm using Win2003, but I doubt that.