Updating Supreme Commander

[MythicalMino]

I bought Supreme Commander Gold last night....and I have never had so much trouble trying to update a game than I have with this one. Everytime I go into GPGOnline, it downloads a patch, applies it, then shuts down. I go back into it, and it re-downloads the same patch, reapplies the same patch, then shuts down. Is there a trick or something to patching Supreme Commander or Supreme Commander Foreged Alliance? I am wanting to play through the campaign of the first game, but I cannot figure out how to update it. And as far as playing online goes, I cannot even get into the game because it keeps updating the game over and over again.

Anyone have any ideas?

Chris

[baelthazar]

Are you sure it is the same patch and are you sure it is applying it when it shuts down?

THQ has one of the WORST patching schemes I have seen. This is the same way with Company of Heroes and Dawn of War. You have to have the program DL the patch, then it quits, then you rinse and repeat. There are also very few "cumulative" patches, so you end up with a year+ of patching.

You may try to DL some of the patches, particularly the first one, from a place like Filefront.com or fileplanet.com. They have actual separate versions of patches you can get without going to GPGnet.

Bael

[MythicalMino]

I think I finally just got it all fixed....the GPG program downloader had to download, update, shut down a bout 10 times. I searched the net looking for the latest versions for Supreme Commander and Forged Alliance. I really only want the updated version of SC because I wanna go through the campaign. But it was still a bit hard to find it.

But, I think I am finally updated....finally.

Chris

[Moat_Man]

I had the same problem, glad you got it resolved. I love the game and still play it. FYI, SC: Forged Alliance adds a lot too.

[MythicalMino]

I actually got Forged Alliance also (I got the Gold Edition). I am only wanting to run through the campaigns of the original. I remember reading in that long thread (I believe it was on these boards) that it was possible to change the UI layout....how do I do that?

Thanks

Chris

[Autistic Angel]

In the original Supreme Commander, you could cycle through different interface layouts by holding ALT and pressing the up and down cursor keys.  That may hold true in Forged Alliance, but I like the default interface so much that I've never tried.

-Autistic Angel

[Thin_J]

I have an even better problem with the update system for supcom.

Everytime the GPGnet client itself gets an update it causes a forced restart of my computer. Awesome.  It's not instantaneous or anything, but it brings up a five minute countdown that can't be aborted.

Drives me friggin nuts if I don't play the game for a while and there's multiple GPGnet client updates.