help with patches & mods

[Sokol]

please,

can someone tell his "best practice" - we get patches, and we like what we see - and we prolly spend hours on reinstalling our loved mods and add-ons.

i always save a clean copy of SF:P1 and WOV, updated to the latest patch, copy it again and try to reapply the mods which are still in my "old" install. how do i know which files / mods may be overwritten without harming the patch ?

 

how do you handle this problem ?

thx

Sokol

[+MigBuster]

please,

can someone tell his "best practice" - we get patches, and we like what we see - and we prolly spend hours on reinstalling our loved mods and add-ons.

i always save a clean copy of SF:P1 and WOV, updated to the latest patch, copy it again and try to reapply the mods which are still in my "old" install. how do i know which files / mods may be overwritten without harming the patch ?

 

how do you handle this problem ?

thx

Sokol

 

 

The only way to tell for sure i guess is have a program on your pc that logs every single file change so your could check it - or ask Thirdwire :)

 

If you have extracted any files from the CAT files and changed them and they are missing after you apply the patch its a good bet they have been changed! - so in this case i would mod them again from the new version in the CAT file.

 

In the case of the recent patch which was small - I just installed it over my modded versions - and took out the sea and terrain mods from the terrain folder - to try out the new sea.

Then i just put back some of the bits i wanted.

 

I to have basic fresh installs that i just patch and then copy over - but I will only do this if a large patch comes out like SP4 - its annoying having to install so many mods again :(