Comments on: OOTPB 2007 Preview, Well Maybe Not

By: Solonor

Solonor — Sat, 03 Mar 2007 13:28:43 +0000

My setup has drive C: as my Windows partition and D: is where I put everything else. Yes, the game does install its data files to My Documents by default, but you can easily move My Documents to a drive other than C: (mine is on D:). Once the game is installed and running, you can move the data files wherever you like. I wish you could do that on install, but you can’t (praise Microsoft).

The program files install wherever I tell them to, and for this beta I have always installed to D:\beta2007. Works like a charm.

One thing I noticed in the latest build was that when I imported my online league, it defaulted to D:\Program Files\Sports Interactive\OOTP Baseball 2006\data\saved_games, which is where my 2006 league is located. I don’t know if you’re trying to import a 2006 league or a 6.5 league, though.

By: jcalvert

jcalvert — Sat, 03 Mar 2007 13:25:30 +0000

Markus/Marc, nice to see such a quick response and support from both of you. Poor ‘ol Chris needs your support.

By: Markus Heinsohn

Markus Heinsohn — Sat, 03 Mar 2007 09:59:53 +0000

Chris,

I just copied a OOTP 2006 league to a CD (I have no partitions), and it imported fine.

In the select file dialog, you need to hit the “up” button until the drive list appears, then select the E: drive, and then go from there… works like a charm here.

By: Markus Heinsohn

Markus Heinsohn — Sat, 03 Mar 2007 08:27:53 +0000

The game does install stuff on your C:\ drive because of Vista. God bless Microsoft Anyway, this is pretty common nowadays and not a game issue.

The file dialog in OOTP is different from the windows one because of cross-platform reasons. The game runs on Mac too, so it needs to be able to share the code. I don’t see the confusion though… you click the ‘up’ button and you get one folder layer up, i.e. from c:\games to c:\…

I’m about to test the import issue now.

By: Marc Duffy

Marc Duffy — Sat, 03 Mar 2007 07:46:18 +0000

We’ll get this looked at today.

If it is a game issue, I’ll reissue a code.

As the mail did say, this is preview code and it’s not final code – so of course there may be issues.

By: Chris Johnson

Chris Johnson — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 22:00:32 +0000

We’ll see . I’ll quickly post my retraction if I am a dunce, but right now I cannot import our online league without doing some file moving that I don’t want to do.

By: jcalvert

jcalvert — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 21:57:48 +0000

ouch …

No doubt this is user error, right? I mean, SI would not send you a crap beta/test copy of the game knowing that you would actually share your experiences, be they good or bad.