Strange Install Problem

I've seen this happen with both regular CD installs and Steam installs.  I install the game, works fine.  Install Eastern Front and it works fine.  But the next time I bring up Eastern Front I get a "Eastern Front Mod does not appear to be installed on your system.  Try reinstalling Eastern Front Mod to continue."  Then I click OK and I get another message that the CoH directory cannot be found.

If I select the Browse and set directory, I can then launch the game fine, but the "...does not appear to be installed..." message still comes up every time I launch the game, but I can click Play and it launches the game fine.

Normally I wouldn't care, but it seems to bork up patching since when the Launcher first starts, it doesn't think the game is installed.

Any thoughts?

The launcher doesn't work fine if you have two different CoH installed at the same time.

Do you have 32 or 64 bits OS?

64 Bit, and I only have one installed.  I had recently wiped out my entire drive and then installed the default CoH game from Steam.  I previously owned the other games, so my CoH account gives me access to the other expansions, but I've only done the single install.

I do have the game (and steam) installed to a second drive b/c my main drive is a smaller SSD for the OS.

Have you tried this:

Rizz wrote:
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"Eastern Front Mod does not appear to be Installed on your system. Try reinstalling Eastern Front to continue"
This problem usually happens because EF is installed without admin rights(or maybe just bad luck :)), you can try to fix it by reinstalling it and making sure you have admin rights while reinstalling EF. But if you want to fix this by yourself(tough guy huh :P) you can do this:

Open a regedit instance(windows key + R or start menu->run and type regedit then execute) and look for "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\Eastern Front" key, and should store your current EF version information. If you are using x64 OS, try checking on "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node".

If not, you can restore it by running this registry entry:

For x86 users:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\Eastern Front]
"DisplayName"="Eastern Front"
"DisplayVersion"="[IP address redacted]"
"URLInfoAbout"="EasternFront.org"

For x64 users:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\Eastern Front]
"DisplayName"="Eastern Front"
"DisplayVersion"="[IP address redacted]"
"URLInfoAbout"="EasternFront.org"

The previous entries are done expecting you have the latest version, otherwise change "[IP address redacted]" for the current version you have installed.

If you know how to create registry entries you probably prefer to add them yourself, otherwise, paste it on a text editor(like notepad) and save it as reg file: i.e. filename.reg, where filename is whatever name you like and then double click it in order to add the registry. You can use the script whenever you want, just that everytime you use it you overwrite the old registry so, be sure about what you add there.

The "Display Version" value must be filled with the latest version you have of Eastern Front, if you don't remember maybe it's better to reinstall, but if you are sure about what version you have, you can add it yourself.

Looks like adding those Uninstall values and creating a key manually did the trick.  Coulda sworn I installed as an Admin, but I don't remember 100%.

Thanks mucho!

Glad to hear it worked :). Going to lock this.