* Meant to add: Thats the “typing” glitch nipped in the bud too. All working as it should! Ignore my ramblings about worldmap models – I dont know what Im talking about! [You probably guessed!]. I thought because those entries had missing text i.e “__anish.bark” it might be linked. A random guess from an amateur. You’re the coder, dude!

Can I…[Read more]

* Meant to add: Thats the “typing” glitch nipped in the bud too. All working as it should! Ignore my ramblings about worldmap models – I dont know what Im talking about! [You probably guessed!]. I thought because those entries had missing text i.e “__anish.bark” it might be linked. A random guess from an amateur. You’re the coder, dude!

Can I…[Read more]

Followed your instructions and tried [playing this afternoon. Wow! Just wow! Sound is working flawlessly now, in +6 ships battles too. And I presume because of the new .exes’ and .dlls – there is a very noticable performance boost with no apparent drop in quality. Very nice!

Still got some bugs and crashes for you, of course 😉

I’ll PM you some…[Read more]

Regarding fixing previous save game:

Re-initiating worldmap_init.c in console.c is somewhat of a drastic solution, because it resets start date to 1st january 1665 – ! Using F11 debug “+5 days” (and lots of rum/food from merchant) got me up-to-date

Attempting to bypass the fannying around with debug, I tried adding this to console.c:

#include…[Read more]

Okay – here’s some crash logs from ERAS2TestDX9 playthroughs:

—-Crash logs—-

Really would like to know whats behind the worldmap ship models corruption. Solved the crash with console.c ammendment, but dying to know whats causing it…? And suspect it’s linked to in-game the “typing/wrong keys, numerals” bug too as mentioned before. Found…[Read more]

Hi guys,

@Jeffrey
I’ve decided to bash my way through a couple of play-throughs using the ERAS2TestDX9 and accumulate some system.log error messages for your future interpretation. Finally had a boarding crash 🙁 And strange things are afoot on the world map – ctd’s and corrupted file paths/names in sys.log for the worldmap/models – ? I’ll…[Read more]

Could you fix the awkward, rudimentary pre-gaslight player movement while you’ve got the build up and running?

meow!

Hehe! Engine limitation indeed!

Oh! Those crash-on-saving errors…used to strike me with fear and has lead to much cursing in the past! Well done for nipping that in the bud. The green tint is no big deal for me – very minor and dont blame you for putting it bottom of the list. Sorry I can’t help with Directx – know next to nothing of it’s nuances.

Out of interest, what’s the…[Read more]

Can you spot the error in what you pasted? And Im sure you didnt write it that way originally – it’s pure copy/pasting mistranslation 😉

So it didnt work originally… and now it does…and hence forth I proclaim you a genius, sir!

Thank you so much for going to this effort on my behalf. Im elated with this and have been delving into your…[Read more]

old savesOkay, here’s 3 saves (zipped) with their original profile folders for you to examine.

Just to clarify. Your patch was the last thing I overwrote the org ERAS install with. I have modded ONE thing since: pictures.ini – to include 2 officers I had introduced previously – that uses models and textures from ERAS already, and that change…[Read more]

Okay, here’s 3 saves (zipped) with their original profile folders for you to examine.

Just to clarify. Your patch was the last thing I overwrote the org ERAS install with. I have modded ONE thing since: pictures.ini – to include 2 officers I had introduced previously – that uses models and textures from ERAS already, and that change consisted of…[Read more]

Gonna have to mull on whether I want to take that plunge…it’s a huge download

Tell me about it ! My harddrives is about 35GM smaller after today! But dont sweat it. Let me mull over it and try and find all the differences between my lightly-modded ERAS original install and your patch and we’ll see whats what. For example: Would a modded Res…[Read more]

Whoah, post too quick as I just had a thought.

Are you copying the same named folder into SAVE for those old games? I remember that it is essential that an old save is still inside a folder of the same name it was in…that is the profile name. If it’s different, that causes problems. So if you have SAVEOldProfilegame1 – save, you have to copy…

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Whoah, post too quick as I just had a thought.

Are you copying the same named folder into SAVE for those old games? I remember that it is essential that an old save is still inside a folder of the same name it was in…that is the profile name. If it’s different, that causes problems. So if you have SAVEOldProfilegame1 – save, you have to copy…

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Okay – found your “old save” post and tried it: first it didnt work – realised I had missed a “}” at the end. So rectified that: still not working. Get the f4 “success” message, but it CTDs seconds after attempting saving, whether fresh save on blank spot or quicksave…

BTW – in system.log, this error:
“C:GamesERAs2 1.5.7Age of Pirates…[Read more]

Okay – found your “old save” post and tried it: first didnt work – realised I had missed a “}” at the end. So rectified that: still not working. Gte the f4 “success” message, but it CTDs seconds after attempting saving, whether fresh save on blank spot or quicksave…

BTW – in system.log, this error:
“C:GamesERAs2 1.5.7Age of Pirates…[Read more]

Houston – we have lift off! Reverting back to “techniques_directory = modulestechniques” fixed the graphical errors. Yay! (I’ll miss those psychedelic purple clouds though)

Did the process explorer just for the hell of it (and maybe your peace of mind):

d3d9.dll version: 6.1.7601.17514

d3dx9_43.dll version: 9.24.952.3111

Still can’t get the…[Read more]

My start.ini has:
<cue drumroll>

techniques_directory = C:GamesERAs2 1.5.7Age of Pirates 2modulestechniques

:- which is my original ERAS game, not the Compiled Source separate folder (which is “C:GamesCompiled Source ERAS” – which you’ll spot in log files).

I’ll amend that line back to “techniques_directory = modulestechniques” and give it a go…[Read more]