Question Regarding Scenhack Program

[DRG]

Originally Posted by Pats

Same here, in both games.
Also if I start it from the installation folder

Did you DL the files I posted ??

[Mobhack]

Problem is, both Don and I have the full Borland development environment installed, which has all the Dll's too.

I am installing a bare W98 virtual machine (no borland products) and hopefully will be able to narrow down any extra DLL's involved.

Once that's done we will fix this.

[scorpio_rocks]

Sorry guys looks like it is an issue:


Pressing OK on error gets you into scenhack but any further buttons regarding sql or sort gives same error.

[Mobhack]

Working on it - seems to be an issue of missing DLLs for the Borland Database Engine

[Steves308]

I get the exact same result that Scorpio Rocks is getting, from both SPWW2 and SPMBT. Scenhack works, but not the Sort/SQL buttons, keeping getting the Initialization error.

Everything else looks like it works with the "b" patches.

Steves308

[DRG]

We are working on isolating the DLL's that might be missing. Neither of us even considered that we would have these things on our HD working quietly in the background that no one else would have because for both of us the program ran great right from the start....... but hindsight is 20/20 and we both missed the obvious fact that the sorting behaviour we were now asking scenhack to do was above and beyond anything else scenahck already did so it was accessing additional DLL's

Once we think we have these isolated we'll post them for "playtesting" for one of you who has had it fail.

Don

[David]

Thanks for working on this. It seems that this program will be a very useful organizational tool.

David

[DRG]

This one blindsided us and the problem now is the folder that these DLL's would normally reside it for a 64 bit OS are different than the 32 bit OS so its not just a simple matter of saying " extract these to your main game folder" ( or maybe it can be that's why this is taking so long while we test )

[Mobhack]

It is a simple matter of extracting the database engine DLLs to the same folder as the EXE. Once you do that, everything works fine.

Problem is there are 35 of the little darlings, some may be unnecessary. or all 35 are all entwined incestuously in a cats cradle tangle of interdependencies. I am trying deleting one at a time and seeing if things fall over, but right now it seems like you need all of them, or at least most of the blighters.

I'm just now going through the 35 DLLs deleting one at a time to see if things still work. It'll take a day or two to figure all that out.

Andy

[DRG]

Attached is an "interim solution" to this problem .

Extract this to your main game folder......the same one your winSPWW2.exe or winSPMBT.exe is in then run ScenHack and the sort program....remember it takes a minute or so for it to create the tables first time around

Thanks

Don