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Bah, when I start the game, it comes up with a small part of the box filled up with part of the loading image, and the rest is black. When I reach the starting menu it reverts to the regular Armageddon background, which fills the whole screen, even though I've deleted it completely from the Doomsday folder! Then when I try loading a scenario the whole thing just crashes. What am I doing wrong?
are you using some mod dir? because if you extracted the whole pack correctly there couldn't possibly be any armageddon backgrounds left in the folder. Or are you just playing with the pegasus hex wizard yourself?
I found a little mistake: the color of India, Nat. China and Mongolia are blue. Can you fix it in the next version because for some players it will may very confusing :wacko:
Hi Torni,
just downloaded your mod. I installed the whole thing but I'm mostly interested in the widescreen resolutions. Running original HOI2 on a 20" screen is not fun...
I want to run the game at 1440x900. I extracted the corresponding load.bmp to the gfx folder. The game starts fine, but grinds to a halt while loading the globals. I get an error message stating: "Couldn't open file:db\units\brigades\naval_asw.txt". I get the options to Abort, Retry or Ignore, but no matter what option I click, the game crashes. I checked the game folder and that file is indeed missing. I'm running version 1.3 and none of this occured in plain vanilla. Any ideas on what I might be doing wrong?
Cheers in advance,
Neuroklatser
just downloaded your mod. I installed the whole thing but I'm mostly interested in the widescreen resolutions. Running original HOI2 on a 20" screen is not fun...
I want to run the game at 1440x900. I extracted the corresponding load.bmp to the gfx folder. The game starts fine, but grinds to a halt while loading the globals. I get an error message stating: "Couldn't open file:db\units\brigades\naval_asw.txt". I get the options to Abort, Retry or Ignore, but no matter what option I click, the game crashes. I checked the game folder and that file is indeed missing. I'm running version 1.3 and none of this occured in plain vanilla. Any ideas on what I might be doing wrong?
Cheers in advance,
Neuroklatser
this thing supports arma 1.1 only atm. Now that you brought that up i'd better add that info in to the opening post too. Sorry for the inconvinience :S
Torni said:
Cheers for the headsup Torni. Just bought arma and now the game starts correctly under 1440x900. However, when I start a scenario the game immediately crashes (the loading screen doesn't even show up), with the usual "send report..." screen. I'm running at a 1680x1050 res. I tried setting a custom resolution of 1440x900 uder the nVidia control panel, but that failed.
I'd appreciate any advice.
Regards,
Neuroklatser
did you remember to check into the GFX folder where you need to extract the correct "load_high.bmp"? The option 1440x900 isn't in your normal resolutions list supported by the monitor?
could you show me some quote or source where your fact is based on instead of just bumping?
PS. anyone can download the exe via official patch, so it's already in public distribution. Only difference here is that it's modified. Off course i could make this more of a do it yourself pack, but honestly couldn't be arsed right now.
PS. anyone can download the exe via official patch, so it's already in public distribution. Only difference here is that it's modified. Off course i could make this more of a do it yourself pack, but honestly couldn't be arsed right now.
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modifying the exe = not allowed.
distributing the exe = not allowed.
While this mod does alot of useful things, we simply can't change the rules (due to legal reasons).
distributing the exe = not allowed.
While this mod does alot of useful things, we simply can't change the rules (due to legal reasons).
Balor said:
So, could the widescreen not be incorperated in an official patch or optional update or something? Because, like you say, this mod does do a lot of useful things... and somehow I don't believe all of the HOI community is going to exe-hack themselves
Maybe just make the package without exe? Seems like it's not just about exe that's being part of it and if people want to hack it themselves (and risk being sued by Paradox), it's their business...Torni said:
Distributing the EXE violates their property rights, but distributing a patching app is completely different - none of their property is being distributed.Lord Ederon said:
Likewise, patching your own EXE using a patch app doesn't violate their property rights either. You can patch/modify your EXE just like you can add ugly wheel plates to your BMW without violating BMW's property rights.
To have any case Paradox would have to establish that either 1) their property is being used to profit a 3rd party, or 2) the 3rd party is denying profits to Paradox.
Now, should Paradox decide to stop all distribution of patching apps on their forums, that's another issue. Surely a policy of not supporting such users with patched EXEs or confining talk relating to them to the mod forum would be more sensible. But they are of course within their rights to censor such discussion on their forums.
Not only that, but what if a virus or a security loophole was distributed in the executable made available on the official forum ? That wouldn't be very good PR with the community.
Paradox can only trust the applications they are building. They can't trust applications built by other people, and they won't have the ressources to test them.
Cat
Paradox can only trust the applications they are building. They can't trust applications built by other people, and they won't have the ressources to test them.
Cat
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