Eastern Front Download and Installation Guide

Thanks Mr. Spam,

Here is where the files are hiding:  programfiles(x86)/steam/steamapps/common/companyofheroesrelaunch

The common file contains Company of heroes, company of heroes 2 AND company of heroes relaunch.  Is this okay?

What's my next move?

Could you post an screenshot of what's inside company of heroes relaunch folder?

Here is the screen shot for Company of heroes relaunch:


Hope this helps,

I am not sure you can see all of this but I have the image saved as a JPG.  I could email or?

Thanks

Looks fine as far as I can tell. You tried starting Eastern front with the EF_Launcher.exe or with the Shortcut on your desktop, right? It may take a minute to load up the game. You can also check if the game is running in the background with pressing alt+tab key.

I think it would be better if I use teamviewer to see the problem by myself :)... your file system seems fine.

Thanks Black bishop,

How does teamviewer work?

We agreed upon a meeting time. You download the software, run it and send me the IP so I can connect to your PC and set up EF on your behalf. You will see all what I do while controlling your PC.

Sounds good.  I am on the east coast and work until 4:30pm.  Will Thursday afternoon 9/12/13 work for you?

Richard

At that time I'm only free at the weekend.

That sounds fine.  What is a good time and day?

Same hour this saturday.

Just to confirm, 4:30 pm Eastern standard time on Saturday.  Let me know if this is good for you.

Sure.

Hi BB,

Sent PM

I wanted to thank you Blackbishop for taking the time Saturday night to get me up and running again.  My life has taken on a whole new meaning and the new Ostheer mod is wicked.  Really appreciate your efforts in resolving my computer glitches etc.

Tanks very much!!

So after reading a thousands of posts  I'm not quite sure  about current status:
I do have an original, Steam-powered COH, which means I have the latest patch version, but still cant get the Ostheer and Sovietside to work.
Did I understand right we have to wait for a patch? I´m very sad we cant play it here. Also, it crashes my Multiplayergame after some minutes without having startet to play - I hope this exspected patch fixes this, too? Sorry if the answer is written somewhere in different posts, but I've been reading for weeks now...

You should checkout this newspost which will most likely answer your questions :)

http://www.easternfront.org/forums/index.php?topic=11006.msg152034#new

Greetings

Last edited December 27, 2013 at 2:05 PM by dArCReAvEr

ah okay new post - thx for help ;) now i´m up to date ;)

Hello !
I bought Company of Heroes on Steam, downloaded it, installed and then installed EF and doesn't work it says Media Problem somethink like this then i just deleted evrythink and start to download COH Steam Version now i need help.

Can someone help me (With teamviewr) to install EF correctly :P I really want to play it thats why i bought COH from Steam :)
I don't even know how to activate CD key :(

Thank you !

If you are using the old version you have on Steam, you should use the EF 1.7 version and do this:

Blackbishop wrote:
You can use ToV on Steam too, the regular version, to play EF(however I think campaigns appear locked). It is not necessary to install the retail version, unless you really want to do it.

Just that instead of using the launcher, you would need to go to the library and in the ToV properties, add the following command lines "-dev -mod Eastern_Front".

How to patch my COH (bought from steam)
How to activate key
And can i then play EF ?

Last edited January 2, 2014 at 6:14 PM by comradenidza

You don't need to patch or activate anything if you are using Steam, it is already done. Then again, if you are playing with the old Steam version you cannot use the launcher or self made shortcuts because they won't work. Just add the parameters on the game itself(or let steam to create a shortcut and try to add the parameters then ???).

Remember if you are using the old version the authentication won't work because the servers do not exist.

I installed normal COH and it's 2.602 version. Is there any EF that can work on that version or can u help me how to get then EF if i have 2.602 btw I bought today COH on steam.. i am downloading now Steam Version :)

I am steam user and I have ToV and OF on steam. Now is 22:30, 2nd. Jan. 2014 (mid-Europe time)

My question is, can you play original ToV and OF online now ? I can't log in to Relic but I can log in steam successfully and only play with computer.

And anyone can play EF now ? I can't play EF at all. when I click EF launcher, no respond.

I've also tried put -dev -mod Eastern_Front (correctly) into ToV launcher, no respond too.

I've re installed steam once, if it still doesn't work, I will re install windows.

Please let me know your status or PM me.

Many thanks!!!! :(

Here's my problem. Ok so i went downloaded the file from Modb, than I installed it. After that the launcher launched than it said it couldn't find the COH file. I fixed that and than the update and play buttons dissappeared. Now everytime I launch it won't launch cause it says "Eastren Front Laucher has encountered a problem and needs to close, We are sorry for the inconvenience. Please help me I've played this back in 2012  and I lost both COHEF and COH. And we just got COH back Christmas 2013 and I've been trying to find a way to download it so I can play. I even followed the Install Guide. PLEASE PLEEEEASE HELP ME!

If you don't see the update and play buttons, it means you downloaded a really old version. Make sure you are using the latest full installer available and not the oldest one.

hi guys. I'm a huge fan of this mod, but haven't been able to play for some time. Can you direct me to the most up to date installation guide? I have the COH Anthology disc. I tried a full uninstall of COH anthology and steam, in the hope that I could get EF to run. No luck. Can't even get the disc to install offline, as it says it cant find a file on the disc. I'm not fussed for online play and would be delighted just to be able to play off line. All the installation guides I'm reading are quite old, are they still valid? Please help me out. I love this Mod.

This installation guide works regardless it is old, because the process is the same. The only thing that changes is the path.

You just need to install the new version from CoH (or the old one you have with the necessary patches) and then install EF following these instructions. If you want to play EF with the latest retail patch (2.602) we can't help you other than offering the compatibility patch because we only support the Steam version.

So me and my friend decided to try this mod out and it works perfectly or me, but he cant launch the installer. It just doesnt open even after waiting more than 15 minutes. Any ideas or fixes for this problem?

Last edited September 14, 2015 at 7:46 PM by Ebrahz

Ebrahz wrote:
So me and my friend decided to try this mod out and it works perfectly or me, but he cant launch the installer. It just doesnt open even after waiting more than 15 minutes. Any ideas or fixes for this problem?

Perhaps it wasn't downloaded correctly? Make sure you have admin rights when running it too.

Hi i just wanted to ask you,can i play Eastern Front Online with friends and how?

@Gata
Both should have the same version of CoH and EF. No custom textures or sounds or something else (although I'm not sure if each player having the same add-ons makes it work).

Yes but when I tried to go multiplayer in CoH It says me Relic Online Unveliable.Do I need other program like GameRanger or what?

That error shouldn't pop up, are you playing with a pirate copy of the game? Perhaps your firewall is blocking CoH?

Yes I think I downloaded from pirate bay because I couldn't find that version in any other way,do I need an original game version?

Gata wrote:
Yes I think I downloaded from pirate bay because I couldn't find that version in any other way,do I need an original game version?

Yes, we do not offer support for pirated versions of the game. In the recent Humble Bundle you could buy coh1 for like 0.01$.

Bloodspew wrote:
My installation tips that I think will help others:

On attempt to run the newly downloaded file it errored saying folder name cannot contain any of the following characters / : <>*.  The installer default wants to make a program group called Company of Heroes: Eastern Front.  Notice the :?  I removed that to proceed. 

Once installation finished I didn't have a desktop icon to launch the mod.  So I hit Windows Start, browsed to the new "Company of Heroes Eastern Front" folder yet there was only a button to uninstall.  I searched forums and found that you need to launch the game from “EF_Launcher.exe”.  It’s not in the Windows program folder Company of Heroes Eastern Front with the uninstall option, but instead is in in my COH directory.  My own directory happened to be "E:\Games\Steam\steamapps\common\company of heroes\EF_Launcher.exe".  I found it by doing a full computer hard drive search on "EF_Launcher.exe".

I launch the file EF_Launcher.exe from Windows Explorer.  It comes up with a little window, play or update.  Clicking on play immediately recognized I was in an old version, so it updated from their server.  I had to manually browse to the correct Steam subdirectory each time it wanted to update (4 updates I think as of Nov 4, 2010).

Now that the mod is fully updated and installed, I click on Play and it says it can’t find the location of my COH directory.  I click on the Settings menu option on top.  In lower right hand corner of settings there’s a COH directory Field, and it was blank.  I paste the STEAM directory again and save.  My own happened to be E:\Games\Steam\steamapps\common\company of heroes.

The game now launches to a familiar COH start screen with Multiplayer, Skirmish etc.  From there play as you would COH, with the Soviets now a 3rd option under Allies.

This worked of course and thanks Not sure why it isn't in the directions for installing the game.