Still can’t access the config utility on my gaming computer, which is very odd. I’ve installed both the Jun2010 runtime and the DirectX update in the game files, but it just won’t work. I know that it works on my laptop (without the engine updates), but it won’t work on my gaming computer for some reason. I initially copied the downloaded .zip…[Read more]

The game has always been like that, and it’s not real intuitive, but you can enter the cabin. I suppose I can look into changing the behavior. Anyway, here’s what to do:

If you notice, if you loot nobody/nothing, there is an icon in the upper right to indicate the default, fast action is to enter the cabin and space bar activates such. When…[Read more]

You can. But if you just got the recent Update, I believe the start.exe and module/*.dll files in the Update.zip and EngineUpdate.zip are the same at this point, so it may be irrelevant. But it won’t hurt either, since it will simply overwrite the exact same files.

I occasionally update just the executables, and like to keep a smaller file,…[Read more]

Yes, following Maltacus’ advice, after unzipping all the .001-.012 files into an empty/blank directory for the game, then unzip Update.zip and copy/overwrite into those same folders you just unzipped from the multipart-archive. This will apply all the later fixes/changes from that initial base set of files and that should do it.

Don’t know how many we’ll do or get, but DeathDaisy said she might do some more, now that hers works; she had to severely deduct the detail to get her model in New Horizons. I asked her to give me the ‘good’ one to see what’s up and now that it works, we can have that one. I was then informed of the already existing masked guy and of course that…[Read more]

Very nice. Increasing the number of verts used in character models, especially by that much, really helps to make the character models look much nicer – is it possible now that we’ll be seeing many of the original in-game models replaced by newer ones of this higher quality level? That’d be pretty cool if we could do that for future releases.

On…[Read more]

Not really an update that affects much in the game presently, but since the dawn of this game’s time, large polygon character models used to crash POTC/COAS…no longer.

Typical characters in the game, have roughly 1,500 to 2,000 Verts. This masked character has 10,000+, Ciri, a new model from DeathDaisy at PA!, has just under 15,000. They both…[Read more]

Hot damn, that ship looks AMAZING, MK. The stern decoration came out really well also – love everything you’ve done with this! Can’t wait to get my copy of the new release and take a look at all the new content!

From what you said, I’m led to believe that this is a new ship being introduced in the new version, is that correct? Also, just out of…[Read more]

It sounds like a mismatch of .exe/.dll/program files, but I’m not sure.

I did try making a new, empty game directory for myself, then loaded the base, Update.zip, then the EngineUpdate.zip (in that order), just to be sure the actual downloads are OK (and that I didn’t mix them up), and that worked for me just fine. But, my machine is Win7.

I…[Read more]

I put a start.ini at:
https://mega.nz/#F!jl1zjSaC!CdBYterMnYkhdEbQy9rQKg

How am I not surprised to learn Win10. It is the bane of my existence. Since I don’t have it, I can only offer some guesses for solution:

Set compatibility to WinXP.
Set to ‘Run as administrator’

Log files are compile.log, error.log (sometimes doesn’t exist) and system.log and are found the same place as the start.exe. You may have to enable…[Read more]

The only time I’ve ever seen the .dll modules not load, is if they happen to be the old, original COAS ones because they are incompatible.

First, if using the download parcels for the entire base, make sure to apply the Update.zip over it.

If that does not cure, then try applying EngineUpdate.zip over. However, the Update.zip and…[Read more]

If itch works, then that’s great. I suggested Steam because while it would be a solution to the download issue, it’s also pretty mainstream, and therefore might be a good way to advertise our game to the wider public – something I think we’re all interested in doing. If it requires payments to host the game, though, I fully understand that it…[Read more]

This is the C++ runtime that matches what I compile:

https://mega.nz/#F!jl1zjSaC!CdBYterMnYkhdEbQy9rQKg

vcredist_x86.exe

Well, I tried installing the latest runtime, and it still doesn’t work. So you may need to put your files up as a download I can try. I’ll go from there.

right, I’ll try that. If it doesn’t work, I’ll let you know.

Yeah, I just provided the link as an example hit, from the many. I don’t think any of the suggestions it gives are relevant to you, since we don’t have an installer that installs/registers the components. That’s why I think trying the C++ runtimes are what I would try for this, because I know we have a dependency there, as it’s tied to the…[Read more]

Steam might be an option, but I believe they charge the person providing/hosting the game offering; I have looked into itch.io and have been looking to go that route. They also provide a file-synching tool for the users that will only download changed portions of the package, which is nice if I only make a handful of changes, your client will…[Read more]

I’ll try the suggested fixes and let you know if I need to try your solution. Thanks for the help.