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I've installed Call of Duty 4 with PlayOnLinux, and everything works well.

I would like to patch the game to v.1.7, so I downloaded the 1.6 patch (the prerequisite for 1.7). When I run the patch installer with Wine, the installation cannot begin because the CoD4 install cannot be located. It's expecting to find the game installed at c:/Program Files/Activision/Call of Duty 4 - Modern Warfare. However, because I installed the game with POL, this is not where the game is installed. It is installed at /home/username/.PlayOnLinux/wineprefix/COD4/drive_c/Program Files/Activision/Call of Duty 4 - Modern Warfare.

How can I patch CoD4?

Thanks in advance.

When I run the patch installer with Wine

You shouldn't do that

the installation cannot begin because the CoD4 install cannot be located

Because you run it with plain wine and not with wine through POL

the game installed at c:/Program Files/Activision/Call of Duty 4 - Modern Warfare. However, because I installed the game with POL, this is not where the game is installed. It is installed at /home/username/.PlayOnLinux/wineprefix/COD4/drive_c/Program Files/Activision/Call of Duty 4 - Modern Warfare.

It seems you are new to Wine project. If you want to clear these things out you should read about prefixes in Wine.

In Linux you see
/home/username/.PlayOnLinux/wineprefix/COD4/drive_c/Program Files/Activision/Call of Duty 4 - Modern Warfare.

but for Wine with prefix COD4 which is located at /home/username/.PlayOnLinux/wineprefix/COD4 it's
c:/Program Files/Activision/Call of Duty 4 - Modern Warfare

How can I patch CoD4?

Run installation script once more time and choose option to patch the game :)

Thank you very much, this worked. To my knowledge, the script never asked me if I wanted to patch the game after I ran it the first time.

As an aside, I can't get PunkBuster to work. Any tips?

AFAIK PunkBuster won't work under Wine as it should.

Hmm, I have heard accounts from other users who have said that it works. There is even a Linux version of the PB update software. Oh well, thanks for your help.

Ok i just noticed to run the installation again for patch 1.7 (so if Patch 1.6 is finished). If you install CoD4 just cancel the installation of Call of Duty 4, you will get the message about how many memory (again) and !! to patch the game (again :D ).
:-°
So that is how you can patch the game from 1.6 to 1.7. Bit cumbersome


EDIT:

Don't forget to install DirectX 9.0c via PlayOnLinux

Edited by danger89