unable to locate COH directory

it is up to date and EF has been placed in the

Steam/common/company of heroes

not sure if its a bug or bad install

Same issue

Make sure settings in the Launcher is correct.

Did, also double checked (i run on steam + windows 7) and made sure its going to my (x86) directory and the steam/blah blah blah etc. Did that for both the exe itself and the updates (they each needed to be selected individualy)

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i have a feeling it may have something to do with the 64 bit OS and steam together, rather then either of them seperately as there have been alot of bugs revolving around one of the two, i figure they are both involved. lol. Hope you can figure out an answer.

Last edited May 29, 2010 at 11:15 PM by Eternallight1000

i have the same problem, i have it check as run under admin, the launch location is good the settings of the launch are good as far as i can tell but they it still says that its unable to find directory and the updater stops working

any suggestions

Your comments made me uninstall my dvd version and reinstall my steam backup... It works as fine as the retail version, i have Windows 7 "x64" and works perfectly.

Please check again in Settings that "CoH Directory" be:
a)By Default on x86
C:\Program Files\THQ\Company of Heroes - DVD version
C:\Program Files\Steam\steamapps\common\company of heroes - Steam version
b)By Default on x86 64
C:\Program Files (x86)\THQ\Company of Heroes - DVD version
C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\company of heroes - Steam version
c)In another directory of your choice

Remember that when installing EF will be asked to choice your path, and gives you by default one. If you change it, remember to change it on the launcher because it doesn't save any other path than default. I attach a couple of pictures of my files.

i did everything you said, it still wont work

When my path wasn't correct, I got a "Eastern Front is up to date", and when my CoH installation was corrupted I got a "RelicCOH.exe not found" or something like that. On the first case just change the directory to the correct one in Settings, with the second, just reinstall and update CoH and EF.

Could you post the path that the launcher has(in settings) and a screenshot of that directory?

i do have the same problem, i have dvd version of coh, eastern front launcher cannot find coh directory, and also in settings, under change directory tab there is no directory, im sure i installed it to where it should be under (c prog files thq coh), need help!

thanks in advance

If there's no path on Settings, you should click on Select->Browse until you find the path and select it; it shouldn't take a lot of time you already know it.

no mister black bishop, you got me wrong, ive already did that, everytime i choose the right path and clicked ok in settings the same thing happens unable to locate coh directory and when i return back to settings tab, locate directory tab is empty again!

thanks in advance,
thanks for great looking mod

radira wrote:
no mister black bishop, you got me wrong, ive already did that, everytime i choose the right path and clicked ok in settings the same thing happens unable to locate coh directory and when i return back to settings tab, locate directory tab is empty again!

thanks in advance,
thanks for great looking mod

Do you really have installed CoH? Could you upload a screenshot of your CoH path?

of course i can! here it is

Do you have retail or steam version? Do you partially uninstalled CoH?

could you upload the same screenshot but in list view instead of details?

By the way where you install CoH it'll be installed EF you don't need to move anything. The installer does all the work in both cases(except if you choose another location for CoH you need to select it when installing and before playing the first time).

hi;

first of all i bought it from a store,
secondly no i didnt uninstalled it yet 'cause uninstalling and installing it again takes ages,
third yes i can and here it is
fourth i didnt moved anything, but i ve downloaded the mod around 4 times and installed and uninstalled around 50 times everytime i ve tried something that could help, such as installing it to somewhere else under coh, and sometimes installer suggested to install it to different place
sixth i thought that it may be because i need expansion or something like that so i bought opposing fronts - no results
seventh better yet i bought one more coh cd (game of year version this time, big patch not included, took ages to download that one)for my lil bro, and EF didnt work on that one TOO
eight im totally at patch 2601 so thats not the problem
ninth can you tell me exactly how does it checks the directory?? cause im also a developer and it might, just maybe because of a registry problem, about products shipped to this corner of the world?

at last tenth thank you whole heartedly for trying to help
mr. bishop

Your brother has the same problem than you or is different?

Could you describe the content of the following key on regedit?

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\THQ\Company of Heroes

P.S. Do you have a x86 OS right? if you haven't search here:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\THQ\Company of Heroes

my brother have exact the same problem with me

my os is 32 bit but there isnt any reg's under wow6432/thq only my DoW reg under that one,
but  under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\THQ\Company of Heroes
3 regs one is CoHproductkey and weird but two installstate regs one of them says CoHinstallstate other is only installstate both installed, maybe because of CoHop?

Try adding a value like this:
Name-Type-Value
InstallDir - REG_SZ - C:\Program Files\THQ\Company of Heroes\

on HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\THQ\Company of Heroes

just to see if it's helps :P. I'm running out of ideas :-\...

You are missing a file, "EF_Launcher_Config.ini"

paste the following content into the file

[EF_LAUNCHER_SETTINGS]
Max_Memory_Value=2
CPU_Count_Value=0
Process_Priority_Value=0
After_Start_BK=2
After_Download_Finished=1
Vsync=False
Show_Tooltips=True
Auto_Update=True
Advanced_Settings=False
Skip_Movies=True

also check that everything in
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\Company of Heroes is correct.

hi, sorry for late reply,
i have all needed registry keys, the installdir (which ive already created) in software/thq/coh and everything is in order under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\Company of Heroes, and i have the launcher config.ini but ive tried creating a new one with the parameters you gave and it didnt worked. By the way i cannot update also, says EF not appeared to be installed in my system. No luck =\
Running out of ideas eh? =j

yeah I have the same problem please help =(

TO FIX THE PROBLEM OPEN YOUR LUANCHER THEN AFTER IT SAYS EF IS UP TO DATE GO TO SETTINGS AND IT SHOULD HAVE THE DIRECTORY AS BLANK ADD THE DIRECTORY TO YOUR COH FILES THEN YOU SHOULD BE DONE