posted 10-04- 09:35 AM               

Funny thing is that Nations works fine: the aircraft are available, as are the squadrons and wingman calls. I don't have the original nations v1 zip file to hand to compare my existing install but from what I remember it just exists as a par file (I can't remember which one to un-pack).

Anyone have any ideas, I checked the pilot files and can't see any obvious errors?

posted 10-04- 03:38 PM               

I'll think on it, but that is odd. If you have a chance to do the following tests, it'll help me help you more:

1. Does sdoe work fine when you select a default pilot (ie: German, Brit, US) that you created before installing Nv1?
2. Same as #1, except after installing?

In rereading your post I'm thinking of two things: 1. It could be related to your copy/paste, although I can't explain how & 2. It sounds like maybe a ppf file is out of date - like one that gives sdoe the parameters for the new nations. My advice is to d/l Nv2 and see if you're still having problems - remember to overwrite anything it asks you to overwrite, when unzipping it.

Email me if you're still having trouble.

Werner

posted 10-04- 04:52 PM               

pilot creation for the default nations is fine, both previously installed pilots and new ones. I suspect your idea of the ppf file could be the reason. Do you know what ppf files nations overwrites so I can check to see if the correct entries are present.

If not I will download v2 in the next week or so anyway.

posted 10-04- 06:17 PM               

Sorry it took me so long...just got home! Well-- while I don't remember that happening to anyone before, I can give you answers to your other questions...

Nations is in par6 and is made up of the StringTable.ppf which should be in Media (unless it is packed in par 6? I didn't do the packing back then so I don't remember), and there is also the score.ppf and the gui.ppf which can be found (or should be placed in your Media/Gui folder)...I think that is all the ppf files we had in Nations-- hope this helps! I can't think of any reason other than the absence of one of these files for you getting dumped.

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posted 10-04- 10:28 PM               

1. Download v2, then this should all be a bad memory, nothing more.

2. If you're really keen on getting this fixed first, I suggest you (using bigmunger) unbig data6.par into an empty folder, find the .ppfs Jeeves listed and copy/paste them to the same directories where they appear in the data6.par directory structure.

Werner

posted 10-04- 10:31 PM               

It could also be that somehow you have copies of the same ppfs that come with nations outside the parfiles already, and either they're out of date or corrupted somehow, but nonetheless are overriding the nations ppfs. So, if you are going to follow advice #2, make sure you delete the ppfs with the same names as those in data6 before copy/pasting. This will, I'm fairly certain, result in the loss of your offline pilot profiles (I'm sorry!!) so I hope that isn't too big a deal for you.

Werner