Company of Heroes: Eastern Front

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Offline Hayro252

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"Eastern Front does not appear to be installed on your system"
« on: January 17, 2015, 04:07:57 PM »
So this error happens everytime when i tried to run eastern front launcher.I tried to reinstall it but didnt fixed the problem so i checked Launcher log
it seems theres problem with registry
I suspect Eastern Front Installer (that i downloaded from Moddb) failed to create one
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######     Eastern Front Launcher Log   ######
###### http://www.easternfront.org/ ######

Created : 17.01.2015 16:58:23
OS Build : Microsoft Windows NT 6.1.7601 Service Pack 1
Launcher Version: 3.2.0.0
17.01.2015 16:58:23 : MESSAGE : Retriving Eastern Front Mod version from registry...
Eastern Front Version:

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17.01.2015 16:58:23 : MESSAGE : Creating a new instance of Eastern Front Launcher...
17.01.2015 16:58:25 : MESSAGE : Initializing...
17.01.2015 16:58:26 : MESSAGE : Checking language file version...
17.01.2015 16:58:26 : MESSAGE : Language file check passed.
17.01.2015 16:58:26 : MESSAGE : Creating tooltips...
17.01.2015 16:58:26 : MESSAGE : Tooltips created.
17.01.2015 16:58:26 : MESSAGE : Initialized Succesfully.
17.01.2015 16:58:26 : MESSAGE : Preparing to check for updates...
17.01.2015 16:58:27 : MESSAGE : Creating update thread...
17.01.2015 16:58:27 : MESSAGE : Updated thread started.
17.01.2015 16:58:27 : MESSAGE : Gathering update information...
17.01.2015 16:58:30 : MESSAGE : Update information recieved.
17.01.2015 16:58:30 : MESSAGE : Reading update information...
17.01.2015 16:58:30 : MESSAGE : Retriving Eastern Front Mod version from registry...
17.01.2015 16:58:30 : MESSAGE : Unable to locate Eastern Front Mod registry entries.
17.01.2015 16:58:58 : MESSAGE : Exiting launcher...
any suggestions to how to fix it?
also posting the config:
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[EF_LAUNCHER_SETTINGS]
Max_Memory_Value=2
CPU_Count_Value=0
Process_Priority_Value=0
After_Start_BK=1
After_Download_Finished=0
Vsync=True
Show_Tooltips=True
Game_Mode=0
Auto_Update=True
Advanced_Settings=True
CoH_Directory="C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\Steamapps\Common\Company of Heroes Relaunch\RelicCoH.exe"
Addition_Parameters=
Process_Priority=False
« Last Edit: January 17, 2015, 04:15:25 PM by Hayro252 »
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Re: "Eastern Front does not appear to be installed on your system"
« Reply #1 on: January 17, 2015, 06:48:21 PM »
I'd suggest to reinstall, but make sure you give the installer Admin rights to run. Otherwise it won't be able to write in the windows registry.
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Re: "Eastern Front does not appear to be installed on your system"
« Reply #2 on: January 17, 2015, 09:27:10 PM »
I'd suggest to reinstall, but make sure you give the installer Admin rights to run. Otherwise it won't be able to write in the windows registry.
did it and its still gives me that error
« Last Edit: January 17, 2015, 09:36:04 PM by Hayro252 »
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Re: "Eastern Front does not appear to be installed on your system"
« Reply #3 on: January 17, 2015, 11:26:52 PM »
I'm not sure about it, but as far as I can remember, the launcher no longer uses the registry entries, so I was thinking you are using an old version of EF or perhaps the installer wasn't replaced correctly when updating. Anyway, I can only suggest you create a shorcut. That will fix your problem but you won't use the launcher.
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Re: "Eastern Front does not appear to be installed on your system"
« Reply #4 on: January 18, 2015, 02:10:24 AM »
isnt 2.3.0.0 is newest version?
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Re: "Eastern Front does not appear to be installed on your system"
« Reply #5 on: January 18, 2015, 08:41:39 AM »
I'm not sure if the newer launcher had it's version number updated. But IIRC last time I talked with Rizz about the registry thingy for the launcher, it was not required anymore thus the error was not supposed to appear again.

We are moving into Steam soon, so we are going to discontinue the launcher anyway.
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Re: "Eastern Front does not appear to be installed on your system"
« Reply #6 on: January 18, 2015, 11:19:18 PM »
im waiting for fix of this issue for 5 years
i can wait few months more  ;)
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Re: "Eastern Front does not appear to be installed on your system"
« Reply #7 on: February 13, 2015, 12:02:49 AM »
Try adding the following to steam launch options of CoH:

-dev -mod Eastern_Front -nomovies

then launch the game normally through steam