card images not working

[Sabrien Reed]

Just installed GCCG on my Windows laptop - it all just worked seemlessly - but the card images batch file was not grabbing them.  I am now downloading the zipped images.  Thanks for uploading them.  I look forward to playing this game again, but it will be tough to start from a fairly empty collection!

[Creator]

Had the same issue today when I reinstalled GCCG. Wonder what's going on?

EDIT: where exactly do you unzip the download? I unzipped it to the LOTR folder in the graphics folder and card graphics are still not showing up in GCCG.

[Sabrien Reed]

You want to delete the folder called LOTR in the graphics folder and unzip to the graphics folder, since the zip file includes a LOTR folder.  You probably ended up with a LOTR inside a LOTR.  I got this at first.

[Kralik]

Just saw this message (though a bit late...!)

Even though I run the server, I don't host the images for GCCG. If the old hosting service is now defunct, you'll have to acquire them yourselves. I may look into it sometime.

[rhtm70]

We tried to download this card images file, but it sent it to the graphics folder in my Downloads folder in My Documents. The images are still not showing up in-game. Can someone explain exactly what I need to do?

[hsiale]

You need to cut it from Downloads/Graphics and move into graphics folder in your GCCG folder - wherever it is in your computer. So that you have ...something/GCCG/graphics/Lotr and folders with all sets sit in the Lotr folder.

[rhtm70]

I tried to move the Lotr file from my Documents/Downloads section into the .gccg folder, but it still wouldn't work. I tried to make a graphics folder in the .gccg folder and put the Lotr file in it, but it still doesn't work. Now it gives this error: "Unable to load file './graphics/Lotr/lotr_back.jpg . I don't know what to do at this point.

[hsiale]

Not to the .gccg folder (this one stores only your account details). You should put it into the folder where your GCCG installation sits (for example the Lotr.exe file). You should already have graphics folder there and you should put LotR graphics into it.

[rhtm70]

Well, I think I put the images in the correct file, but now when I try to log into the game, it says "Server closed - Abnormal Exit" . Any idea what this could be?

[hsiale]

Sometimes an account goes corrupt. I don't know the reason and don't know anyone who understands how this works. A solution is to reinstall GCCG and start a new account. This happened to my first account as well, I started a second one, but haven't been using this much as Gemp-Lotr got good enough for me to move there

[Manweor]

Thanks, I was having the same problem.
Anyway, it isn't a w7 issue, but a recent global issue, because I failed to reinstall the game on a computer I had already used to play. All W XP.
I think there's a problem with whiterose.net web hosting because the program crashes while connecting to it..