Editor failing to run

[unmerged(16045)]

I have an Acer Travelmate 212TXV with Windows Millenium. I tried to run HOI Editor, but this message appeared (and operation aborted):
‘Critical error! Failed to initialize DirectDraw. Try setting the color depth to 16 in your display settings.’
Since I cannot set the display to 16 colours (256 is my minimum), I’d like to know what kind of manutenance or improvement my PC requires in order having this fixed.

 

[jpd]

Color depth 16 means 16 bits per pixel, 65536 different colors in all, or 16 bit color for short.

Usually, it's the next higher one after 256 colors mode.

Jan Peter

 

[Castellon]

There may also be two exe programs for the editor. Editor and Editor new.
make sure you are using the new one.

 

[unmerged(16045)]

Ok, I tried again with 65,000 colours, and the new error message is:

Critical error! ... ERROR: (unknown type in LandDivision) ‘speed_cap_art = 5’ Line = 16 file = db\units\infantry.txt ... Do you still want to continue?
Abort-Retry-Ignore

If I ignore, a similar message appears, with slightly different details, and so on for several times (I didn’t reach the end!).
What now?

Apparently I have but a single Editor.exe, unless the second one is hidden elsewhere.

 

[Castellon]

Do you have 1.06 installed?

 

[Baneslave]

Ok, I tried again with 65,000 colours, and the new error message is:

Critical error! ... ERROR: (unknown type in LandDivision) ‘speed_cap_art = 5’ Line = 16 file = db\units\infantry.txt ... Do you still want to continue?
Abort-Retry-Ignore

If I ignore, a similar message appears, with slightly different details, and so on for several times (I didn’t reach the end!).
What now?

Apparently I have but a single Editor.exe, unless the second one is hidden elsewhere.

I have too that problem.

I want editor working what I do?

EDIT: Problem is here D:Hearts of iron\db\units

Can somebody send me that "units" folder?

My errors came for there!

 

[unmerged(16045)]

Do you have 1.06 installed?

Yes, I have.

 

[Baneslave]

Yes, I have.

I too have.

 

[Castellon]

Please run a DirectX Diagnostic:
Start menu –Run - then type Dxdiag, then select each tab across the top of the window, and run the tests on each tab. Then select “Save All Information” button in the lower right of the window. This will bring up a dialog box to allow you to select a name for the file where the information will be saved. You can save it right on the desktop as this will make it easy to find. Then copy the contents of that file from the start to the heading that says “DirectX components” then paste what you have copied into a post in this thread.

 

[jdrou]

The editor released with 1.06 patch is version 0.98 instead of 1.06 so it doesn't recognize the 'speed_cap' parameters added in another patch. See my bug report here.

 

[Castellon]

Oops!