SEV Patch v1.66 Released!

Balance Mod games should have no trouble continuing with the v1.66 patch. A new version of the mod should be out very soon.

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Ramahannukwanzmas?

nice, and thanks for the fast info kwok....was just here to ask that question

I'm not sure where I should report this problem with 1.66. During the installation procedure of 1.66 a message came up saying it can't access a file. I aborted the procedure, restarted my PC (because I thought the file might be in use) and tried again - now the procedure tells me something about an invalid version number and that I should reinstall SE5.
I can (and will, if I have to) do that, but it's not the way it should be. Looks like the update procedure has not undone some registry changes, hasn't it? Any idea? Is it enough to simply edit the registry key back to the old version number? Or is it a value in an INI file I have to change?

When you open SE5, what version does it say? You might have already overwritten the se5.exe file, in which case you could not install the patch. You'd either have to re-install or have someone send you the se5 v1.63 .exe file.

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SE5 has been overwritten (date is Dec 19th), displays error messages when started. Partial, incomplete update, obviously. Looks like I'll better reinstall the whole thing from scratch.
My main point was that the installation procedure doesn't seem to work properly, at least when it comes to handling error conditions. It SAYS that it's rolling back the upgrade, but apparently, it isn't (at least not cleanly and completely).

Unfortunately, I still don't know what caused the error in the first place. I hope it's not because I'm using the European English version (upgraded to 1.44 using the European patch, then to 1.58 and 1.63 using the U.S. patches - no problems so far. Maybe now?
Let's see what happens.

great!

Update: I have now reinstalled SE5 from scratch and patched it successfully to 1.66.
I don't know why the upgrade failed before (and don't really care now), but the upgrade procedure IS flawed as it can't handle error conditions properly.

yes... and where could I get this patch?

*drools*

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