Author Topic: Are devil.dll, ilu.dll, ilut.dll, FS2unist.dll or patchw32.dll needed?  (Read 1944 times)

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Offline ARSPR

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Are devil.dll, ilu.dll, ilut.dll, FS2unist.dll or patchw32.dll needed?
These ones are the dlls that I have in the FS2 folder. I suppose the last two ones are "debris" from my original retail installation, and I remember I installed the others sometime, somehow for some reason ...  :confused:

But IIRC fsopen doesn't need any kind of external resource (apart from vp data containers). Can any coder confirm it? Or do I still need any or all of them?

Thanks.
IF YOU HAVE TROUBLES WITH FS2:
  • Please, please, please, READ and UNDERSTAND the sticky threads in FreeSpace & FreeSpace Open Support board.
    A lot of people are willing to help you, but, as anyone can understand, seeing the very same "issues" repeated again and again can become quite depressing. Please, spend a bit of time trying to solve the issue by yourself.
    (Lobo deserves a monument).
  • Then, if you aren't still able to solve your issue, feel free to ask for help in that same board.
    FYI, most of the troubles are caused by wrong mod installations which lead to either missing data or undesired cross-effects between them. Always follow the mod installation instructions and keep a clean FS2 installation as explained in the sticky threads. Two additional links about how the game handles game data:
  • If you think that you've discovered a bug, mantis it.
    Provide as much info as you can, and try to narrow it down. A lonely "FS2 doesn't work" is not a good report.

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Offline Turey

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Re: Are devil.dll, ilu.dll, ilut.dll, FS2unist.dll or patchw32.dll needed?
IF WCSaga Prologue and BtRL Demo can get by without them, they can't be that important.

I only have FS2unist.dll and patchw32.dll though.
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why would an SCP error be considered as news? :wtf: *smacks Cobra*It's a feature.

 

Offline karajorma

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Re: Are devil.dll, ilu.dll, ilut.dll, FS2unist.dll or patchw32.dll needed?
They were used by earlier SCP versions. You don't need them.
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Offline Nuke

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Re: Are devil.dll, ilu.dll, ilut.dll, FS2unist.dll or patchw32.dll needed?
i dont have any dlls ion my fs2 dir at all. so if there are any dlls and you only use fsopen, just dump em.
I can no longer sit back and allow communist infiltration, communist indoctrination, communist subversion, and the international communist conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids.

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Offline WMCoolmon

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Re: Are devil.dll, ilu.dll, ilut.dll, FS2unist.dll or patchw32.dll needed?
FS2unist.dll is (presumeably) used by the Freespace 2 installer, so I would leave it alone. It isn't SCP.

patchw32.dll is used for the 1.21 patch (or the patcher), so you should keep that around too.

devil, ilu, and ilut are all used by third-party image loading utilities that have since been replaced by code that is self-contained in the EXE.

The only SCP-related DLL you generally need to worry about these days is OpenAL, but that's not (or at least, it shouldn't be) kept in the Freespace 2 directory.
-C

  

Offline ARSPR

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Re: Are devil.dll, ilu.dll, ilut.dll, FS2unist.dll or patchw32.dll needed?
Thanks to all.  :yes: :yes:

I'm deleting them all including "retail" dlls as I haven't got retail anymore.

(Thanks WMCoolmon, my OpenAL is properly installed wherever it installs itself  ;) ).
IF YOU HAVE TROUBLES WITH FS2:
  • Please, please, please, READ and UNDERSTAND the sticky threads in FreeSpace & FreeSpace Open Support board.
    A lot of people are willing to help you, but, as anyone can understand, seeing the very same "issues" repeated again and again can become quite depressing. Please, spend a bit of time trying to solve the issue by yourself.
    (Lobo deserves a monument).
  • Then, if you aren't still able to solve your issue, feel free to ask for help in that same board.
    FYI, most of the troubles are caused by wrong mod installations which lead to either missing data or undesired cross-effects between them. Always follow the mod installation instructions and keep a clean FS2 installation as explained in the sticky threads. Two additional links about how the game handles game data:
  • If you think that you've discovered a bug, mantis it.
    Provide as much info as you can, and try to narrow it down. A lonely "FS2 doesn't work" is not a good report.

Whoever Hanlon was: Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.
Albert Einstein: Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the the universe.

Dell Dimension 9200 - Vista 32-bit Ultimate
Core 2 Quad Q6600 @2.4GHz - RAM 2 GB DDR2
nvidia 8800 GTX - Integrated Sigmatel Audio