BETA Edition Or Reinstall With New Discs

Chuklz70 · April 2014

I've been browsing all evening on the forums, and perhaps I missed this being answered elsewhere...

My spouse and I were in Beta, and played through the Early Access and now have the physical copies of our purchased editions of ESO.

Do we need to reinstall all this software and patch all over again, or simply enter all the Registration codes and we can continue playing?

Belrim · April 2014

No need for re-installs, the version used in betas updates normaly to the "retail" version.

Chuklz70 · April 2014

Okay, so here's where it gets into PC Technical support. In older MMO's that my wife and I beta tested, you had to install the Official software; and yes, we began installing our discs before we questioned it.

Now my wife, who wanted to make some of her pc's hard drive space available again, deleted the 2nd, newer/unpatched copy of ESO. Since doing that the ESO-Beta shortcut and launcher do not work anymore.

Belrim · April 2014

Without using a shortcut, navigate your way to the folder, where the older installation is, and run the launcher in the launcher folder.

If it is not there, or does not work, you can always install the launcher again from te account-page, using a different folder from the older installation. Let the launcher install to the point where it starts downloading the client again and cancel the DL, exit the launcher.

Then move the "the elder scrolls online" folder from the old beta installations folder to replace the same folder in the newest. Then run the launcher again, and let it patch if needed. Now you should have new installation of the launcher with the datafiles from the beta-install.

Hope this makes any sense!

(ive done this once, when i suspected that there was something fishy within the games installation)