2.12 VQ nerf

[archaeolept]

the game dir ("cc3").

the game dir? there isn't a game dir in domII

did you put all your save games in a dir that you named "game"?

[Norfleet]

Originally posted by archaeolept:
the game dir? there isn't a game dir in domII

did you put all your save games in a dir that you named "game"?

The "game directory" would be the directory with the name of your game, like "Fat_Obstreperous_Jerks", or something. If you put all your saved games in a directory you named "game", though, then yeah, you broke it.

[magnate]

Originally posted by Norfleet:

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Originally posted by archaeolept:
the game dir? there isn't a game dir in domII

did you put all your save games in a dir that you named "game"?

The "game directory" would be the directory with the name of your game, like "Fat_Obstreperous_Jerks", or something. If you put all your saved games in a directory you named "game", though, then yeah, you broke it.

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No no, each game is in its own dir, as created by Dom2. I call my games cc1, cc2, cc3 etc., so that's what the game dirs are called. When I reinstalled Windoze, I saved those dirs, plus the "newlords" dir where the pretenders are. I didn't save anything else, but putting back what I saved has given me lots of broken games. Can't anyone tell me why??

FWIW, each game dir contains only three files:

fthrlnd
race.2h
race.trn

where "race" is whatever I was playing that game. (cc1 = man, cc2 = pythium, cc3 = ulm)

The newlords dir contains only .2h files for each pretender, much smaller than the .2h files in the game dirs ....

So, is anything missing?

CC

[Sheap]

It looks to me like what you are missing are the .trn and/or .2h files for the other races in the game. The fatherland file is fixed and contains the initial world data only. The current state information is stored in the .trn and .2h files.

You'll also need the copy of the .map and .tga files you were using.

The stuff in newlords isn't really important for savegames.

[magnate]

Originally posted by Sheap:
It looks to me like what you are missing are the .trn and/or .2h files for the other races in the game. The fatherland file is fixed and contains the initial world data only. The current state information is stored in the .trn and .2h files.

You'll also need the copy of the .map and .tga files you were using.

The stuff in newlords isn't really important for savegames.

Ok, but surely in SP games there's only my .trn and .2h files, because the AI doesn't write them!

Maybe the map files are the problem - but surely a reinstall would have sorted that out. How does the program know which map is being used by each game - is that in the fathrlnd file? I should just check that all the map files are in the right places, and haven't been changed in 2.12. All three of my games use different maps, so I don't suppose all three have been changed.

CC

[Sheap]

Hmm you are right about that. AI players in multiplayer write .2h files but in actual single player games they don't.

So my suggestion is useless then.

[Agrajag]

Did you install dom2 into a different directory or drive the second time around?
Maybe the map information is stored on the file and says:
The game map is in "A:\bcdefg\hijkl\mnop\dominions2\maps"
Instead of the new "M:\nopqrst\uvwxyz\domII\maps"
?

Its a possibility :\