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#2253805 - 07/08/07 04:01 PM
Re: CTD Poland 39
[Re: iron mike]
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Senior Member
Registered: 08/14/01
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Why the hell you always place ecapanel 3.6 into your Poland folder??
Only by installing this, you overwrite the Poland FM/DM´s and may cause strange results.
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1st engined flight by Richard Pearse, Waitohi, New Zealand, March 31, 1902. Karl Jatho, 1st flight, 18.August 1903, Hannover-Vahrenheide, real controlled flights. The Wrights, 1st flight, 17. December 1903. They wasnt the 1st, but still claim this!
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#2253920 - 07/08/07 07:35 PM
Re: CTD Poland 39
[Re: Knegel]
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Registered: 02/09/07
Loc: Maryland, USA
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The readme file says to use ECA 1.4 so I put ECA 1.4 and then ECApanel 3.6 into the Poland folder before any other files were downloaded into it. ECApanel was not run, only the accompaning files were added to the EAW directory. The common folder, skin folder and terrain folder, and Poland fixes were added after the basic EAW was copied (from a successful Win 98 load). I did this because nothing else seemed to run (and I did this onto my Win XP machine which hates EAW).
I haven't gotten Poland to run correctly on my Win 98 SE machine. I've used the EAW 1.2a exe on that machine for Poland 39. I've used the 1.26e exe because of the CTD problem and most things worked fine with it, (Dunkirk, Andy's 1944, Final Year of the Luftwafffe, SAW, Great Shot!, etc). Besides 1.2a doesn't work on the XP machine I get the not a valid 32 app message. Now I'm really getting confused, are you saying to just load the mod directly into a freah EAW 1.2a load without any thing else added (ECA etc)? OK, I'll try that.
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#2254011 - 07/08/07 10:03 PM
Re: CTD Poland 39
[Re: iron mike]
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Registered: 12/11/06
Loc: St Barth
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Hi, For use the NO-CD modification (EAW.INI modified as indicated by VB) you must use the EAW 1.2 NO-CD patch (available on Sandbagger pages) As reminder: 1.26E is already a NO-CD version. It's indicated in the readme ..as well the changes he provide. New to Version 1.26
This revision primarily improves and fixes the EAW.INI features and functionality:
EAW.INI Fixes: The entries under WinXP for TARGET NEXT ENEMY =T, TARGET PREVIOUS ENEMY =SHIFT T, TARGET CLOSEST ENEMY =CTRL T, TARGET NEXT FRIENDLY =Y, TARGET PREVIOUS FRIENDLY =SHIFT Y, TARGET NEXT GROUND =E, has been fixed .
EAW.INI Default changes: The entries for Width=800, Hight=600, Windows Joystick=1, JoystickDeadZone=3, Debug Path=.\ are now the default entries when the EAW 1.26 patch is installed.
EAW Operating Changes: A CD mitigation modification has been added to the EXE file for convinience of game play. This patch should now also allow the game to play under Win2000 in single player mode only. (multiplayer problems under Win2000 still exist). This patch is still compatable with EAW 1.2.
EAW Extra Additions: The changes that are present in Andy's German AI now use cannons.
EAW Fixes: The errors as discovered by MrJelly in the 3D.CDF, producing garbled cockpits in some of the Spits have also been included. The contrail smoke lengthened by 4X. The ground smoke from damaged objects has had its duration greatly extended. A Rocket-Freeze workaround has been implamented by modifying the smoke from back of rockets.
Regards sydbod (on behalf of The Code Group).
Thanks to Andreas (Andy) Herrmann for his work. Thanks to Tony (MrJelly) West for his work. Thanks to Ralf (Knegel) Kraeft and Roel (VonBeerhofen) Bartels for all their help and advice. Having multiple installs on your machine can hamper redirection of registry shortcuts when cleaning the registry That's why ...it's better to install ONCE EAW ....and if you need more installs of the game ..it's better to make a COPY-PASTE of the entire game in a new folder .. The best of course is to no made a install but just a copy-past from the CD.... (it's work!!) Just needed to see what files are not necessary... but if they are pasted ..it's no problems created.(just a question of housekeeping and used space!) Of course if one install was already performed ...a cleaning of the registry is in on order after the deinstallation of the game. OFF
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Flying is the perfect vocation for a man who wants to feel like a boy, but not for one who still is. WIKI (EAW Encyclopedia)
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#2254206 - 07/09/07 04:30 AM
Re: CTD Poland 39
[Re: iron mike]
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Senior Member
Registered: 08/14/01
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The readme file says to use ECA 1.4 so I put ECA 1.4 and then ECApanel 3.6 into the Poland folder before any other files were downloaded into it. ECApanel was not run, only the accompaning files were added to the EAW directory. The common folder, skin folder and terrain folder, and Poland fixes were added after the basic EAW was copied (from a successful Win 98 load). I did this because nothing else seemed to run (and I did this onto my Win XP machine which hates EAW).
Hi, is there another Poland1939 V1.3 available?? In my readmy, which is the same like the one WC posted in this theatre, i can read this: "This campaign is not (!!!) ECA Panel compatible. So please do not start ECA Panel when having installed this campaign. If you were not able to resist install this campaign again (just overwrite all files)." But anyway, did you rename the camp40**.dat files, like i suggested?? Greetings, Knegel
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1st engined flight by Richard Pearse, Waitohi, New Zealand, March 31, 1902. Karl Jatho, 1st flight, 18.August 1903, Hannover-Vahrenheide, real controlled flights. The Wrights, 1st flight, 17. December 1903. They wasnt the 1st, but still claim this!
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#2254590 - 07/09/07 05:49 PM
Re: CTD Poland 39
[Re: Knegel]
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Registered: 05/07/05
Loc: Meinerzhagen, Germany
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Hi Iron Mike, I have/had the same probs when I want to play the German side. I have (believe it or not) installed the Version 1.3 about thirty times as told in the readme (with small differences)- and always got a CTD when I pushed the selecion button for the german side. I´m also running Win98se, DirectX 9.0c, Driver Nvidia 6.49 ( all other EAW Installs are running fine!!!) With the several installs I figured out ( the v.1 install is/was running) - by adding the files of v1.3 one after the other and then trying out with file is making the trouble, that following files are causing the CTD: Nationc.wsp Ntnpicgr.wsp Ntnpicuk.wsp Ntnpicus.wsp Pltcar.mpc Esp. the file Ntnpicgr.wsp, can´t say why. So I deleted then (or put them into an other folder than EAW), , and now I can select the german side, hmm... I works for me - but now i´m getting the standard selection screen.... Hope this helps a little !?
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Your Com. Greg Keene
Perfect is just good enough because second place is just the first loser
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#2254716 - 07/09/07 08:32 PM
Re: CTD Poland 39
[Re: Knegel]
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Member
Registered: 02/09/07
Loc: Maryland, USA
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To my knowledge there is only one Poland 39. However, the is Andy's v1.2 at his page on Sandbaggers site. I know that v1.3 is not compatable with ECApanel, but I tried it because it is a part of ECA. I didn't run ecapanel.exe inside of the EAW folder, just copied the files ontop of ECA 1.4. The copy didn't make a difference in running the program. It crashes with or without the ecapanel files on the German campaign side. The Polish side with it's beautiful screens works fine so far. I'm still unclear about ECA 1.4 being used at all in ver 1.3 though.
Yes, I did, it crashed with a big bang and the system became unstable (didn't tell you that part before, but the crash caused the system to go totally wonky. A second try at EAW locks it up completely). BTW, the main Polish fighter flys like a pig.
C.C.K., humm...you know it is like chicken soup, it doesn't hurt to give it a try. I'll delete those files from the common file set before I try again. Also, I've gone back to the source and downloaded all the zips again, just in case I had a bad file.
And finaly, I am going to use a EAW patched to 1.2 with Andys 1.2ac no cd patch this time as a basis. I have run a basic EAW mission with the ini modified to nocd, 1280/1024 res my remapables etc. with out a glitch. So I know the basic installation is ok.
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