War2Observe

Introduction:
This program is meant to be a cheap immitation of the Warcraft 3's feature for observers.  It allows you, when as a watcher of the game, to see what the players are doing as well as seeing their resource statistics as your own.  This is not a hack, and should not complement hacks of any kinds.  Once again, credit goes out to LoThaR. for MUCH of his time and devotion in stomping out bugs.

Direction:
1) Unzip the War2Observe.exe file into your favorite directory or folder.
2) Double click to run

That is it.  This program will work regardless when you run the program in relation to War2.  For those who wants clarification, you can start this before war2, after war2.  If for some reason you can start both processes at the same time, go for it, if it crashes…tough.  If you start this during a game, it will not do anything until your next game. This means, you cannot run this and start observing in the middle of the game.  This restriction is here so that if a player died and only has a farm left, he cannot pop out and run this to help his ally.

Restrictions and limitations:
If in the first two minutes of the game and you do not have more than 2 units (including buildings), you are given observation mode.  If after you are given observation mode and your total unit count is greater than 5, you will be taken off of observe mode for the rest of the game.

Also, remember that not everything will happen instantly, there's a lag of several seconds.

NOTE:  If this program happens to crash in the middle of your game and you DO NOT rerun this program.  You must restart war2, otherwise, it will crash war2 the next time a game starts.

Please submit bug reports to *removed* with the subject of "War2Observe: Bug", thanks!

Once again, thank you LoThaR. for all of your help.

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IF YOU ARE GETTING AN ERROR WHEN TRYING TO RUN THIS PROGRAM
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"The application has failed to start…", go to this microsoft page and download vcredist_x86.exe (for x86 processors)
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=9B2DA534-3E03-4391-8A4D-074B9F2BC1BF&displaylang=en