United Offensive installation
 

ok...here's the problem....Bought COD when it came out....played the SP to death, then sold it (I'm not much of a multiplayer gamer). I did keep it on my PC, and play a level now and then.

Just bought COD UO....and found out I need the original to play it. While the original is still installed on my PC, installation says it can't find it and halts right there. Do I need to buy the original again?

Thanks in advance for any help.

if the original is indeed installed correctly on your PC then the expansion pack should install. if it has trouble detecting the original, then perhaps it is checking the registry and the entry is not correct (i had a registry problem with installing MOHAA expansion packs that caused them to not acknowledge the original was there). or perhaps you have installed the original in a folder other that the default directory and it is looking in the wrong place.

either way, the best way to fix it would be to reinstall the original. which would require you to buy the game again

of course, as Call of Duty is a system requirement for United Offensive, you should really have the original to be playing the expansion anyway, as selling the game but leaving it on your PC is effectively making a copy of/stealing it

yup go buy the original.

if you play the game with a cracked exe, you should try to replace it with the original to install, it´s like patching, sometimes doesn´t work if the exe is not the original...

I did try to use the original exe, but that didn't work either....I do think it's a registry issue...since I had to do a system restore a while back, and a lot of my games had to be reinstalled. Strangely this one didn't. Just curious, what is the default directory the game goes to? I did put mine in a different one and can't remember what it defaulted to.


Thanks again for all the responses.

Yes, Buy the game again.