Upgraded from Win7 32bit to 64bit

c0nd1t10nr3d

As the title says, Tonight I upgraded from Windows 7 32 bit to Windows 7 64 bit.

Before upgrading I backed up my copy of STO and after the upgrade and pasting STO back where it was, my system wants to re-download the entire game. I have tried everything from moving the "Cryptic Studios" folder from "Program Files" to "Program Files (x86)", creating shortcuts from there etc.

Nothing works.

Has anyone got any advice for me? All this trouble was a lot simpler to sort out before "Arc" was introduced and I do not have that installed and I didn't have it installed before I upgraded my OS.

Thanks in advance for any help or advice.

lizardglenn

Try letting it start the download 1st then stop it & put old files in the folder it makes just pasting wont create the registry files

not sure about arc you should be able the get rid of that later or see if there is a link to the old installer file on forum some where i remember a post ages ago linking to it

c0nd1t10nr3d

lizardglenn wrote: »

Try letting it start the download 1st then stop it & put old files in the folder it makes just pasting wont create the registry files

not sure about arc you should be able the get rid of that later or see if there is a link to the old installer file on forum some where i remember a post ages ago linking to it

I tried letting it download, stopped it and copied files twice and it didn't work... However, a third attempt at the same thing eventually worked. Strange but true lol.

Thanks for your help lizardglenn!

rezking

I have Win7 64bit and my game is installed in C:\Users\Public\Games\Cryptic Studios.
There doesn't appear to be anything STO in the Program Files/x86 folders.

lucho80

There are some registry entries that the game uses to determine where stuff is. I discovered this when I installed that god forsaken Arc junk and it rewrote them, forcing me to use a system restore to get everything back to working order.

c0nd1t10nr3d

rezking wrote: »

I have Win7 64bit and my game is installed in C:\Users\Public\Games\Cryptic Studios.
There doesn't appear to be anything STO in the Program Files/x86 folders.

That's where my install used to be. But a while back (before Arc) I was forced to redownload and reinstall due to a system crash and HDD upgrade. But for whatever reason, when I reinstalled, STO ended up in the Program Files folder.