Topic: Strange problem with SFC:OP & Enhancement pack 3.2, Help Please.

[GateKeeper]

I've recently run into a very strange problem that I can't seem to solve, so I'll throw it at some of you Guru's around here.

Have been playing OP w/ the enhancement pack and just having a ball.  Also had made some of my own ships and added them to the game successfully and they worked fine.

Then I snafu-ed the shiplist.txt file which I thought I had backed up, but evidently saved it somewhere that I can't find it. (Yea, I know, I know)

So I uninstalled everything and reinstalled, then my problems began.

I'll be as detailed in my decription as possible so it may be a long post.

1. SFC:OP installs fine, no problems there.

2. When I install the OP enhancement pack 3.2, everything installs fine until I get to the "Mod chooser", it actually installs fine, but when it (Mod Chooser) runs for the first time after the install (when it is supposed to detect your stock install of OP, before 3.2 installs OP+ 4.0) I get an error that says "RunTime error '53' File not Found"  1st PROBLEM.

3. So, I continue with the rest of the installation of OP Enhan. Pkg 3.2

4. Everything else installs just fine.

5. Start up the game, do the CD-key thing, settings, hot keys, add all my new ships, yadda-yadda-yadda.

6. Start up a skirmish game, and "What the Heck?"  I notice that in the ship selection screen I have no "Advanced ships" (Advanced Cruisers in Federation, etc.), also my modded add-in ships don't show up, all I have is just the basic ships with a few varients.

7. So I go back to the menu make sure I have "Advanced era" selected, Yes it is. So I go back in , still same problem, no advanced ships, none of my new modded ships.

8. So I exit the game, go in and manually check all the files, the shiplist.txt file is the OP-Enhancement Pack one, I open it up in excel, it has all the ships in it that are supposed to be there.

9. Well after going back and forth between all the relevent files for about 30 mins, and rechecking everything in the game numerous times, I just swap out the OP Enhancement pack "shiplist.txt" file with the original stock one, go back in the game and stat another skirmish game to check everything.
Now, everything is there except my new modded ships. (I added my new ships to the OP Enhancement Pack ship file, not the stock one, so this was to be expected)

10. Now I can't figure out why I have more ships with the stock ship file than with the Enhancement pack ship file., so I uninstall, reinstall, recheck, and so on,...same problem.

I even reinstalled stock OP, installed the patch, and just installed OP+ 4.0 (Not the one with the Enhancement Pack)

Same problem.

To make a long story short, I have uninstalled and reinstalled literally 30 times to make sure I wasn't doing something wrong but I'm getting the same problem everytime: ...Just to recap:

1. When Installing Mod Chooser in the Enhancement Pack, it gives me the error "Runtime error '53' File not found"

2. When OP+4.0 is installed (whether from the Enhancement Pack OR by itself) I have very few ships selectable in game, but when I revert back to the stock game, the correct number of ships and all the "Advanced Ships" show up in the selection menu.

3. My new modded ships dont' show up in game, even though they worked just great before.


And FYI, when installing:

1. I DO have my Anti-virus OFF
2. I DO have my Firewall OFF
3. I DO have my Anti-Spyware OFF
4. No other programs are running in the background

Any help would be greatly appreciated, as I REALLY NEED my SFC:OP fix, I'm going through severe withdrawl.

GateKeeper.

[Bonk]

Just skip the mod chooser on a fresh install?

Or just do a fresh install, patch, and OP+4 and off you go...

Perhaps the mod chooser is leaving registry settings behind?

Have you deleted the program folders after uninstalling and before reinstalling (particularly the mod chooser...)

'Bout all I can think of, perhaps Pestalence or Strat will have some better input when they see this...

[GateKeeper]

Just skip the mod chooser on a fresh install?

Yep Tried that, same problem.

Or just do a fresh install, patch, and OP+4 and off you go...

Yep, tried that (just below # 10 in my post) still, same problem.

Perhaps the mod chooser is leaving registry settings behind?

Have you deleted the program folders after uninstalling and before reinstalling (particularly the mod chooser...)

Yep, did that, in fact, during the install, I let the Enhancement Pack install mod chooser into the OP root directory, so after an uninstall I just delete the Taldren folder and all goes away nice and clean.

However, on your mention of it maybe leaving registry settings behind, the one thing I did not try was a reboot after uninstall before I re-install, perhaps it is not getting completely wiped clean for some reason with-out actually rebooting before I reinstall.  Hmmm something to think about, I shall try that as soon as I get home.

'Bout all I can think of, perhaps Pestalence or Strat will have some better input when they see this...

Thanks for your suggestions
GateKeeper

[Age]

The mod choosser will ask you after istalll it as detected a mod when this happens name it OP+4.0 or when you go in to Mod Chooser from desktop short cut or program mod chooser and just name the mod it backs up all reamining mods you want in there.The best place to read about this is in OP Enhancement sub forum in the Dynaverse 2 forums.I hope this helps.

Here is everthing to do with it.

http://www.dynaverse.net/forum/index.php?action=search2

[GateKeeper]

The mod choosser will ask you after istalll it as detected a mod when this happens name it OP+4.0 or when you go in to Mod Chooser from desktop short cut or program mod chooser and just name the mod it backs up all reamining mods you want in there.The best place to read about this is in OP Enhancement sub forum in the Dynaverse 2 forums.I hope this helps.

Here is everthing to do with it.

http://www.dynaverse.net/forum/index.php?action=search2

Age:
Thanks for your suggestion, I'm familiar with how "Mod Chooser" works. but as stated in my first post, it doesn't install and detect the shiplist.txt file properly. 
however, that is not really important, I really only play SFC:OP with Pestelence's Enhancement Pack anyway, so I can just install everything individually if I wanted.

The main problem is the ship "inventory" problem I'm having with OP+ 4.0. (i.e. missing ships and new modded ships not showing up)
#6 thru #10 on my list in my first post.


GateKeeper

[Age]

The mod choosser will ask you after istalll it as detected a mod when this happens name it OP+4.0 or when you go in to Mod Chooser from desktop short cut or program mod chooser and just name the mod it backs up all reamining mods you want in there.The best place to read about this is in OP Enhancement sub forum in the Dynaverse 2 forums.I hope this helps.

Here is everthing to do with it.

http://www.dynaverse.net/forum/index.php?action=search2

Age:
Thanks for your suggestion, I'm familiar with how "Mod Chooser" works. but as stated in my first post, it doesn't install and detect the shiplist.txt file properly. 
however, that is not really important, I really only play SFC:OP with Pestelence's Enhancement Pack anyway, so I can just install everything individually if I wanted.

The main problem is the ship "inventory" problem I'm having with OP+ 4.0. (i.e. missing ships and new modded ships not showing up)
#6 thru #10 on my list in my first post.


GateKeeper

I don't have 3.2 yet I have 3.0 still and there is no problem with it.You could alway individuallly downoad it from FireSouls site and let it install itself as I do have 4.0 and no problems his OP+4.0 is in the above sub forum let it install and run the mod chooser again and hopefully everything turns out fine it may be a corrupt file.Then again if you go into the D2 forum and look for 3.0 and the links are still live download it and install that one.Here is to FireSouls OP+4.0 and 3.0 links a dead

http://www.dynaverse.net/forum/index.php/topic,163350702.0.html

[[ISC]Phaser]

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[[ISC]Phaser]

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