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I wonder if a kind person could give me an idiots guide to fm loading and renameing as I cannot get them to work. I downloaded patently dangerous to my desktop. ie7 , it said it was a zip file so I unzipped to fms in darkmod .nothing works training mission ok ,thanks in advance

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I wonder if a kind person could give me an idiots guide to fm loading and renameing as I cannot get them to work. I downloaded patently dangerous to my desktop. ie7 , it said it was a zip file so I unzipped to fms in darkmod .nothing works training mission ok ,thanks in advance

 

Yes, this is all covered in the wiki. Unfortunately, IE7 renames PK4's to zip files...which is a huge pain in the ass. I don't know why microsoft would turn that on by default in IE7.

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Yes, this is all covered in the wiki. Unfortunately, IE7 renames PK4's to zip files...which is a huge pain in the ass. I don't know why microsoft would turn that on by default in IE7.

Yes I saw that for 8 not 7, so please as I said I need an idiots guide what, and more importantly how do I correct it?
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Since you asked for a complete idiots-guide: :)

The best thing to do would be to replace your Browser by Firefox or Opera or simply any other Browser, besides Google Chrome maybe, because IE sucks massively and not only because of that renaming issue. ;) If you download the FMs again with one of those Browser, everything should work fine.

 

But if you don't want a different browser, you either have to make sure IE saves the files as pk4 or you have to rename the file-extensions manually. If you don't know how to do that: You have to enable showing known fileextensions first in the folderoptions dialog and can rename them afterwards.

 

Or you can use the run-dialog to start a commandline-window by typing "cmd" and perform this command in the new window: "rename c:\games\doom3\darkmod\fms\*.zip *.pk4". The Folder in this command has to be changed to your actual Doom 3 location of course.

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ok - quick and easy.

 

Open the folder where you have downloaded the FM's

are they called something like :

crown_of_penitence

OR

crown_of_penitence.zip

 

if they are the first case :

Go to "Tools"(in the menu bar) then to "Folder Options".

Now click the "View" tab at top.

Untick "Hide extentions for known file types"

 

The file should now look like :

crown_of_penitence.zip

 

right click the file, click "rename", erase the "zip" part at the end and replace it with "pk4"

 

the file should now be

crown_of_penitence.pk4

 

place it in the FM folder and try install.

 

(As a side note : perhaps the installer script could look for zips too? (I dont know how d3 deals with files as filesystems etc), a bad convention, but might be easier)

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