Hello everyone,

I've got both the Steam and GoG versions of "Sword of The Stars - The Pit" in my game inventory. The "Steam" version just WORKS... Steam (so far) seems to handle their installs and upgrades by "image" which means that as you upgrade, they just install a mirror of a game-state at the level you need. That seems to work pretty well.

GoG's version is, so far, a bit lacking in that regard, re: this one game.

I have tried a WIDE RANGE of installation process steps, and have re-downloaded all the relevant files (to ensure it's not a download corruption issue) And I've tried this on multiple machines... running Win7(64) and WinXP(SP3,32). The installers behave the same way, it seems.

I can install pretty much everything fine, with the exception of "Pilgrim." It never matters WHEN I install Pilgrim, it always results in a failure for the program to run. (Pilgrim runs just fine on the Steam version, by the way).

I've discovered that there is a subdirectory for the DLC... "D:\GOG Games\Sword of The Stars - The Pit\Content\dlc"

Note my path. This is on a secondary HD, not my "C" drive, and not on the "default path" obviously.

In that directory, there is a subdirectory called "01_pilgrim"

IF that directory exists... or perhaps "what the directory contains" exists... the game crashes at startup time. If I delete the directory, the game runs perfectly fine, but of course the "Pilgrim" DLC content is absent (and thus this character is unavailable on the character selection screen).

I have tried replacing the Pilgrim DLC directory from Steam into the GoG installation... and this, also, causes a crash. And yet, it works just fine on Steam (probably because Steam "virtualizes" paths?)

Am I the only person to experience this? If you have had no problems, I'm curious as to why that might be? And if you HAVE had problems, I wonder what we might have in common re: this issue?

If you have had no difficulties, are you installed to the "default" paths in all cases? If you HAVE had this problem, are you installed to a "non-default" installation path?

I know, without a doubt, that the issue is in the files found in this one directory, and seems to be "common" between subsequent generations of the main program executable. I'm thinking that the issue is most likely a "hard-coded path" in one of the DLC files, someplace? Something which looks at the "default install location" for something and can't find it, resulting in a crash.

But... I need more info. So, please, share your own experiences.

My OS is w7/64bit; the installation path is "D:\Programme\GOG Games\Sword of The Stars - The Pit\ThePit.exe". (where "D" is secondary HD)

I reinstalled the whole mess today, as my previous install from 2013 always gave me blackscreens when looking into the 'statistics-->awards'
The order I installed is: 1. the pit 2. mindgames 3. gold edition 4. gold edition patch 5. pilgrim, always using the latest installers. The trick seems to be, to always use the installers by increasing numbers i.e. beginning from 2.3.0.24 up to 2.7.0.24
Note, that I had the 'gold edition' (2.6.0.11) and not the 'gold edition upgrade' if this makes any difference.

I don't own the other dlcs, like you, and in my new installation, I have this "01_pilgrim"- folder too, which wasn't there in my old install.

My new install works flawlessly so far, even showing all my old awards.

It might be, that in your install the game messes up with the other save- file it creates on C:\Users\[username]\AppData\Roaming\Sword of the Stars - The Pit (note: I did NOT install 'as administrator')
and it might be, that one of the files there is "occupied" by your steam installation.
Maybe you should try to delete your steam installation completely, including your save files; but I have no idea, what happens, when you backup your save- files and try to add them on your new install.

I'm not into programming at all, so take my 'advices' with caution.

To sum it up: the only thing I did, was changing the installation path, everything else on gogs default and it works.

What happened to "setup_sots_the_pit_pilgrim_2.7.0.24"? At now the last is "2.7.0.13".