Migrating SOTA to a new laptop - any shortcuts?

Finally have a rig that will run SOTA decently at hires

Backed up my SOTA directory on my older laptop to an external portable backup drive & reinstalled it on the new one. Had to resinstall the launcher since the old one wouldn't run properly. Unfortunately I am now facing downloading & installing 158 patches despite the fact that the files for these are already in the new rig.

Are there any tricks or tweaks I can do to speed up the process ? I"d really like to be able to play R10 if possible.

 

It kinda sounds like the old files aren't in the new directory. I recently just copied all the game files from my laptop to my desktop the other day and it worked just fine.

 

Thanks Bowen, will doublecheck.

I forgot to add, the old laptop has the 64bit Win7 but the new one has win 8.1

 

I'm not familiar with Win 8 (and hopefully won't have to be) but I have noted that default install locations sometimes differ between OS versions. I personally hate using defaults as they're always buried several layers deep in the directory structure anymore. It annoys me so I always use custom locations.

 

There is a complete install download link which include the latest patch so you don't have to go through consecutive patching.
Smack linked it in another post. It was also in a dev post in the release 10 bug forum...

http://patchserver.shroudoftheavatar.com/sotalive/patchfiles/SotAWindowsRelease10Build158.zip

 

@Spoon, that's wonderful - now I don't have to debug the new installation. Many thanks!

 

Glad to help, and credit should go to Smack, my brain is trivia oriented....