Please ask your basic (newbie) questions in here. - by scumble
Ziemanskye on 7/8/2006 at 18:57
It was mostly a graphics driver issue from what I remember, and then only with some chips, so it's unlikely to be the problem. The windows and virus-scanner auto-updates shouldn't be a problem (unless Window's own firewall has turned itself on - that might lead it to confusion and the other firewall problem, whatever it is, coming back)
I'd say clean the system out anyway, but that's mostly because I believe in doing that as regularly as possible.
Thiefs_Shadow on 9/8/2006 at 11:19
Ok I'm still trying.
I was wroking away quite happily on my tutorial level after I'd deleted all the other maps in the folder (except the auto-save). It was going quite well until I opened the mesh folder at one point and it gave me a Viktoria error.
Unfortunately I've not been able to copy it (I thought I had,grr...). I clicked continue and everything seemed fine. I put in the stairs no problem.
But once I tried to reopen the mesh window it shut down, same problem as before. Its not the first time I've seen the Viktoria message, I believe its related to my problems. I'm going to see if I can get it copied but it doesn't show up every time. Just once, and then I cant really use that map anymore.
Does this still make u think it may be a problem with mycomputer? Or could it be a problem with T3Ed.
Ziemanskye on 9/8/2006 at 12:02
If it's the static mesh browser throwing Viktoria and more serious errors...
It could be either, but it'd make me more inclined to believe it's the editor - somewhere around here there was some tweak-things for the Smesh browser, so you could search them out and see if they solve the problem, otherwise I'd recommend entirely re-downloading the editor and starting over to see if that might solve the problem.
And if you can get us a copy of the viktoria error (just the bit at the top: we probably don't really need the whole thing) that might help narrow things down
Thiefs_Shadow on 9/8/2006 at 19:25
Well I've redownloaded the Editor. But I'm not yet sure if its going to work because every time I try an open the editor (via the shortcut as the launcher works selectively) and it askes me to choose one of the CONTENT/T3/TagDatabases/Vocabularies .vcb files and says 'Find Sound Vocabulary.' None of the 3 .vcb files do anything except give me a Viktoria message (she's got it in for me) saying:
Error Message
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Unable to load static mesh 'WEPaiSWORD'!
Call Stack
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0x1124F782 T3ED! (+0x44E782)
(unknown)
0x114CC671 T3ED! (+0x6CB671)
(unknown)
0x10E495CD T3ED! (+0x485CD)
(unknown)
0x10E4AC84 T3ED! (+0x49C84)
(unknown)
0x11552EE7 T3ED! (+0x751EE7)
(unknown)
0x7C816D4F KERNEL32! RegisterWaitForInputIdle()+0x49
(unknown)
Register Info
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EAX=0x00000000 EBX=0x00000000 ECX=0x00000000 EDX=0x00000000
Flags=0x00000000
ESI=0x00000000 EDI=0x00000000 EBP=0x0012F534 ESP=0x0012F29C EIP=0x10F9CA30
System Info
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EXE Name : C:\Thiefstuff\T3Ed\System\T3Ed.EXE
EXE Date & Time : 04:25:39 8/9/2006
Current Directory : C:\Thiefstuff\T3Ed\System
PDB File (not found) : C:\Thiefstuff\T3Ed\System\T3Ed.PDB
Current Date & Time : 05:19:44 AM 8/9/2006
Username : Chris
Computer Name : XERXES
OS Version : Windows 2000
Time Since Boot : 0 hours 40 minutes 15 seconds
Physical Memory Usage : 77
Physical Memory (Total) : 258392064 bytes (246 megabytes)
Physical Memory (Available) : 57962496 bytes (55 megabytes)
Swapfile (Total) : 976543744 bytes (931 megabytes)
Swapfile (Available) : 581402624 bytes (554 megabytes)
Virtual Memory (Total) : 2147352576 bytes (2048 megabytes)
Virtual Memory (Available) : 2061991936 bytes (1966 megabytes)
Standard DLLs
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msvcrt.dll - Version 7.0.2600.2180 from C:\WINDOWS\system32
msvcrtd.dll - NOT FOUND
msvcirt.dll - Version 5.1.2600.2180 from C:\WINDOWS\system32
msvcirtd.dll - NOT FOUND
DirectX DLLs
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dsound.dll - Version 5.3.2600.2180 from C:\WINDOWS\system32
dinput.dll - Version 5.03.2600.2180 from C:\WINDOWS\system32
d3dim.dll - Version 5.1.2600.0 from C:\WINDOWS\system32
ddraw.dll - Version 5.03.2600.2180 from C:\WINDOWS\system32
dplayx.dll - Version 5.03.2600.2180 from C:\WINDOWS\system32
Unreal DLLs
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Core.dll - NOT FOUND
D3DDrv.dll - NOT FOUND
Editor.dll - NOT FOUND
Engine.dll - NOT FOUND
Fire.dll - NOT FOUND
DXAudio.dll - NOT FOUND
IpDrv.dll - NOT FOUND
Render.dll - NOT FOUND
WinDrv.dll - NOT FOUND
UWeb.dll - NOT FOUND
Window.dll - NOT FOUND
Any thoughts?
Ziemanskye on 9/8/2006 at 21:03
That's the missing static meshes again - WepAiSword...
I think this is why I only use one game and editor install, rather than split.
Thiefs_Shadow on 9/8/2006 at 22:23
I deleted my download of T3Ed, redownloaded it, reinstalled Thief and copied it, and installed the editor, as well as making the right changes. The problem persists. (there goes my day off)
Bugger.
Ziemanskye on 9/8/2006 at 23:15
Next daft question - have you checked all the things we had you check before?
No spaces in directory path.
Correct registry entries (play game install once, then copy, then install editor over copy, then use loader switching thingy, I think: as I say, I only have/use one install/copy)
StaticMeshes folder *not* amongst the TagDatabases this time?
GlasWolf on 10/8/2006 at 02:11
Not sure what procedure you're using for the install, but I'd use Komag's tutorial. Touch wood I've never had a problem with installation/launching/editing (oops, that's torn it).
Just to check, my editor zip is called thief3editorrelease_jan2005.zip, windows lists it as 322 MB (338,192,277 bytes).
Sluggs on 15/10/2006 at 17:59
Err, for some reason, i can no longer select the walls for texturing in my level in the 3D view! :confused: I can select objects in the 3D view, but not the walls.
What am i doing wrong?
Edit: Nevermind, i found the button! :o
scumble on 16/10/2006 at 10:18
Sometimes you also have to rebuild the geometry when that happens, sluggs.
