sharing fof universe

[wbonnell]

Has anybody successfully shared a universe between two or more machines? My main computer, plato, is upstairs, but I occasionally play FOF on my wife's wireless laptop, aristotle. I configure both machines for file sharing, and share my fof directoy on plato as FOF2k4. Then, on aristotle, I mount the FOF2k4 share as my S:\ drive. Finally, I edit the following registry key to point to <b>"S:\"</b>:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Solecismic Software\Front Office Football 2004\Full Path

Problem is when I run the game from aristotle, I get the following error: "A data file shipped with the game missing"

Any ideas? Does it matter that plato is XP while aristotle is ME?

[Sloan]

The FOF series is very particular about that universe folder. What I would do is backup the universe folder on the laptop to a temp folder. Install FOF on your computer to the S: drive, and then copy the contents of out backed up universe folder into the newly installed universe folder. Do not replace the folder, just the contents inside. I won't guarantee this works, but that would be my best guess.

[wbonnell]

Originally posted by Sloan
The FOF series is very particular about that universe folder. What I would do is backup the universe folder on the laptop to a temp folder. Install FOF on your computer to the S: drive, and then copy the contents of out backed up universe folder into the newly installed universe folder. Do not replace the folder, just the contents inside. I won't guarantee this works, but that would be my best guess.

You've just answered my question. The Full Path key should be set to "S:" rather than "S:\". Thanks! ;)