Lasiurus on 5/3/2008 at 01:56

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Hi, I've been checking the forum, looking for an answer as I seem to have a problem with SS2. You see, I decided to playe it after some time but I upgraded my system and kow I have a "not so typical" problem.

My specs:
Intel Core 2 Quadcore 2.8
nVidia 8800 GTX
RAM 3 GB DDR2
(EVERYTHING is up-to-date)

But, here's the funny thing: The game works perfectly fine, yeah, I'm not kidding, it actually works like a charm. The real problme is...well...after some time I decided to give my game a makeover (plus, some bugs and balance issues could certainly receive some attention). So...I downloaded the SS2 Mod Manager and the "SS2Tool_v.2.4.exe"; as well as some mods. Namely: Reirth, SHTUP (Versions 5 and 6), deepfriedbeer and Straylight. Now, trust me, I wouldn-t be wrighting this problem if I hadn't really checked the forums already.

THE PROBLEM:

well, the problem, to put it plainly is that, as far as I get a mod installed the game wont run at all. I've follow all the steps. Patched to last version, made the game "mod ready". Whenever I activate a mod throught the Mod Manager, the game just wont run. No matter what mod. Activating any option in the SS2Tool prevents the game from starting aswell EXCEPT...the option says "Correct Bugs".

If anyone has a clue as to what can be causing the problem let me know.

Thanks!



EDIT (Update): OK...so this is weird. I just installed the game (vanilla). I launch it. No problem. I exited it. No problem. Then I thought "mmm, maybe I installed the patch wrong..." , so I launched it again to see the version number. BUT, the game CTD before the main menu, in fact it CTD before the very first video could play!!...Now...the only thing I've noticed that may be considered strange is in the install.cfg file. When the game crashed I opened the install.cfg file just out of curiosity, and found that right under the last line, the one that reads: "movie_path D:\Sshock2\cutscenes+H:\shock\cutscenes", there's a little square symbol. I erased it and relaunched the game but it still crashed...the symbol is there when I install the game, so it doesn't appear after the first launch. But I do'nt know wether it's supposed to be there in the first place. Any clues?

Lasiurus on 7/3/2008 at 01:37

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Well, I'm gonna follow your advise and let the mods manager do the Mod ready set. As far as clean ire-installatios of the game, well, I've done about 20 already. But here's some new info.

When I install the game (clean, vanilla, no mods or anything other than the game otself), I'm able to launch it and play perfectly woithout a single problem. But, if I exit the game and then I try to launch it, it will crash before the first video can play. This means that the problem is between my PC and the game itself. As far as I get it, something, beyond my knowledge, seems to be modified in some file somewhere when I exit the game, not allowing me to play it again. What is this file or files or whatever that gets modified and breaks the game...I have no idea. Any clue?