By the way, I peeked at a few of the inside locations (houses, rooms, etc.) and it will still disallow your fighter officers from spawning inside for fights such as the ‘dinner party’ or Isabella scene because of the same problem that Des Moines had; there are no ‘officer’ group locators. Now Des Moines was a typo error in that it had ‘officers’…[Read more]

Thank you very much. I have Win7, without a problem, but now see that is 2008 redist, which I already have installed so of course I would not have the problem. I think the reason config.exe needs that is due to how it obtains the monitor resolutions, using a ddraw method, which is old/deprecated and is probably compiled with a point to an old…[Read more]

So, checking the event log, I fixed my issue – turns out all I needed to do was update my Microsoft.NET framework. Below is a link that talks about how to solve the issue, I only needed to perform steps a-c to get config.exe working properly on my computer. In addition, I installed the 2008 C++ runtime, so that might have helped as well, not sure.…[Read more]

Thanks for the quick response, I’ll do that.

Good to hearthat the feedback is appreciated, MK! Can’t wait to get my hands on the new update, it’ll make an awesome Christmas present!

Question for the technologically illiterate one here; how do I access the event viewer? I’ve never heard of such a thing before. Would really help, since I have problems with Config.exe and this might just fix it.

Thanks.

Yep, that adjustment to the locator file fixed DesMoines; the workaround is no longer needed.

However, there are indeed some locations that are explicitly set to not allow fighters (e.g. Panama route). That is handled by that function: LAi_LocationDisableOfficersGen

OK, that last post was wrong. I did some digging, and the real function is LAi_LocationDisableOfficersGen, but it doesn’t work for that particular shore because the locator definitions in the model have the wrong group name (probably a typo); it is a bug. I will fix the locator file and I bet it works without the workaround.

Give me a bit to…[Read more]

I did DesMoines shore by looping and manually placing the fighters during the particular quest function in reaction_functions for when you land at shore_ship3 location, but I later discovered what is probably an easier way; I think where you find LAi_LocationFightDisable, where the 2nd parameter is true, disables the ability for your fighters to…[Read more]

Well, it’s possible this may have been a problem, but I don’t get this in my game, after several tries. But, I have also been working on in my update, so I may have already fixed it, but I don’t have notes for it, so I don’t know if I fixed it deliberately or my adjustments for the new update fixed it as a side-effect.

I did make a change in…[Read more]

This is interesting. The C redistributable is supposed to be the version that matches the toolset version used to compile in Visual Studio, which is what I provide. I did not know that for some Windows versions, config.exe might still need a different one.

For more information, can you remember which version you had to download and install? I…[Read more]

Oldtimer, you can buy a ship without trading in your current one to get it – now let’s see if I can explain how, since I kinda suck at that. So, when you go to buy a ship, there should be a vertical menu on the far left of the ship purchasing window, with an arrow at top and bottom. All you have to do is use the arows to scroll the selection box…[Read more]

Download them all: ERAS2.6.7z.001 through ERAS2.6.7z.012.

Make an empty folder for the game (Example C:ERAS2) Right click ERAS2.6.7z.001, choose 7-zip/Open archive and from there, extract to C:ERAS2). You should see in the archive, upon opening with 7-zip, modules folder, Program folder, RESOURCE folder, fmod.dll, start.exe, config.exe…[Read more]

Yes, Vincent is correct. If you use 7zip, and right-click to open archive of the first, #1 file, it actually opens the entire set of files for extraction. You don’t have to do them separately, one at a time.

This sort of change should be doable. I’ll run it by MK and perhaps we can work it into the game where some types of bonus items work while either on-person, or in chest, while others require on-person…depending on their nature (i.e. book vs. ‘charm’…so to speak).

I’ve always thought the requirement to keep bonus items on your person was to force some judiciousness on the player’s part, and if certain bonuses were desired, but weight limit starts to constrain, well, then some sacrifices must be made.

However, I’m not entirely averse to the idea of certain items still empower the bonus from cabin chest. I…[Read more]

You don’t have to worry about extracting all of the .7z.xxx files when installing the game, Jack. When you’re extracting the game to install it, you only need to extract the first file (ERAS2.6.7z.001), and that will install the content from the other 11 .zip files. Then extract the update.zip and copy/overwrite it to your game files, and then do…[Read more]

That’s an interesting idea I hadn’t thought of, Oldtimer, and it certainly makes good sense. After all, I’ve read the book, so why do I have to keep carrying it around just to remember how to use my new skill boost? Items like medals and such should still need to be carried around, but I do agree that it would be very nice to have all skill books…[Read more]

The cat and some skill items working when placed into the ship’s chest would be great to incorporate if you ask me – it reduces the amount of weight you have to carry around yourself (though the main reason I want that kind of functionality is to keep my inventory more streamlined). Also, why do you have to carry ship skill enhancements all the…[Read more]

Thanks for the advice, MK, I’ll try that. I need to upgrade my AVG to a paid account anyway, so I can use that once I get the cash.