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Modding, Mission Design, and Coding => FS2 Open Coding - The Source Code Project (SCP) => Topic started by: BruceSato on October 05, 2005, 03:41:46 am
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I got an older mod for FS2 and it crashes my Freespace SCP! Its the german REVENGE Mod with 84 missions!
Can anyone help me??
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What's the crash exactly? Does it give you an error message at all?
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No, but SCP crashes while playing a mission in which i attack a HoL-HQ, guarded by 4 Mentu-Cruisers and 2 Hatshepsut-Destroyers!
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They'll be a file in your FS2 folder called errorlog.txt. Delete it, rerun and post the first 10 lines of the new file that will be created.
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there is no errorlog.txt created! So what to do now?
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:wtf:
You sure? I've never seen FS2 actually crash without leaving an erorlog behind. Is FS2 locking up and being killed by you or is it actually crashing to the desktop?
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Crashing to desktop! But with an error message in weapons.tbl, reminding that he cant find the Subach! There is a custom weapons.tbl in the mods VP-File!
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You don't have to use exclamation points everywhere!
But anyway, you said this was a German mod. Are you running the English or German version of FS2? Does the campaign work in retail FS2? What version of the SCP are you running?
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Im running the German version of FS2 retail, with the SCP 3.6.7 p4. The campaign works in Retail, but i wanted to play it with the better Graphics engine of SCP.
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Originally posted by BruceSato
Crashing to desktop! But with an error message in weapons.tbl, reminding that he cant find the Subach! There is a custom weapons.tbl in the mods VP-File!
I thought you said that there was no error message?
Had you said that there was one I would have suggested going into the troubleshooting section of the launcher (features >> troubleshoot) and selecting the disable parsing errors option.
Remember to turn this back off after you've finished with revenge as it is there to protect you from other crashes.
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Applicationpopup: Freespace 2: fs2_open_367_p4.exe - Error at application: The order in "0x004f930d" links to memory in "0x000002bc". The order read could not be completed!
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something is wrong with the table files and the somewhat stricter behavior of FS2Open in some cases is not letting it slide.
have some modder fix the problem.
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Originally posted by BruceSato
Crashing to desktop! But with an error message in weapons.tbl, reminding that he cant find the Subach! There is a custom weapons.tbl in the mods VP-File!
Sounds like there isn't a Subach in the weapons.tbl...can you give a link to where the mod or its weapons.tbl can be found?
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This is the mod itself!
http://www.sci-fi-network.de/RFC-German.rar
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In the launcher, go to troubleshooting and click "Disable Parsing Errors".
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Already done, it jumps out with the error messages translated up there!
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I thought localization wasn't supported in FS2 Open?
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Oh...****.
I just took a look at the mod you posted. It looks like whoever created it named the VP file with it root_fs2.vp. I have no clue why they did that...but it means that you may have accidentally overwritten your retail VP file with the mod's, which you should never ever do.
Solution: Make sure your root_fs2.vp is the one that came with retail FS2 (Either uninstall and reinstall, or download the individual VP file from one of the links in the General Freespace forum.)
Then, extract the mod someplace (Not your Freespace 2 directory). Rename the VP something else..."revenge.vp" should be good and solve any precedence issues.
Then, make a new directory inside your Freespace 2 directory, call it "revenge". Copy all the files from the ZIP (including the newly-renamed revenge.vp) to that folder.
Finally, use the 'Mods' section of the launcher to select the revenge folder you just made. Start Freespace2 and see if it's fixed.
In the future, if you ever come across a mod that contains a VP file named the same as one of the original VP files, make sure you rename it to avoid confusion. You should never change, overwrite, or move the original VP files unless you know exactly what you're doing.
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Just renamed it, the original one had been in another folder. but it crashed after two more missions.
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That's good. :nod:
What error is it giving now? (If there is no error, check errorlog.txt; if there is no errorlog.txt, try a debug build)
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just got a windows-errormessage in german.
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Originally posted by Galemp
I thought localization wasn't supported in FS2 Open?
I fixed it so that German works well without us having to do anything special build wise. As long as you have German data it will work. Same basic thing with the French version, though I don't think the French version was ever really finished by Volition. The Polish version will get supported as soon as someone with the Polish data files sends me their root_fs2.vp file. Of course "support" is that the build can work with those languages, not necessarily that we guarantee it.
Better localization support for mods and such kinda got shot to hell. My original attempt had too many possible problems as I learned what all people were doing with mods. Better in-binary string translations (for warning messages and things like that which we add) will be coming soon, when I get the time to do it anyway.