installing Philleassons' secret
Hmm…I guess I should post it here too:
Hi there. Since you were so kind to help me out a bit at the start, I thought to offer something in return too. If people bought Phileassons' secret like me from Gamersgate (I couldn't find a retail version in my country) and maybe this goes for Steam too - in any case as a download, thus… they could enter some problems where the download doesn't, or doesn't fully (sometimes, a boat does disappear, but nowhere is the nightwatch there to begin it) work. The origin of the problem, I think, lies in the fact that the downloaded version of the expansion is not entirely compatible with the retail version of Drakensang TROT of the Benelux.
I have found that the problem is small and can be readily solved. Gamegate always tries to install it at a specified path in programfiles. Which is, normally, the right place to do so, if you installed by default. BUT…it does so under the wrong name, even if you DID save it by default. (Thus, one gets a different folder installed). When you click on drakensan.exe in the new folder, it gives you an error, because it doesn't find the files of TROT. Note that, even if you manually direct it towards the correct pathname, it STILL makes a subfolder with the same problem. Now, to remedy this, you can either copy/paste the whole shebang within this folder in your parent TROT folder. Or, more simple, you first remove the '-' in the name of your parent folder of TROT (which the Benelux version installs). Yes, it is "Program Files/Drakensang - The River of time" and the expansion installs it for "Program Files/Drakensang The River of Time". You see, only the "-" is the difference. Delete that out of your folders'name (of the original TRoT install), and then install your Gamegate-download-version of the expansion, and everything will go smoothly.
I dunno if it's in every version like that, retail or as a download, but it occurred with me in officially bought versions, so I guess others have or will encounter it too, so I thought to share this. Feel free to share it to others as well, I'm placing this under CC, share-alike. If you found it helpful, donate some blue points to me. ;-p