Problems with 7.1?

[Kraut]

Hello,

I just started a new campaign usinf the campaign generator.

After the first battle (September '39 on the German side) the game obviously confused my generated campaign with another campaign made by editor; I was congratulated for my victory and was told that I would be sent to Tunisia to fight the Germans.

At the start of the next battle I received 800 support points for US equipment. The mission description said US vs Germany in March '43.

Has anything like this happened to anybody else or is this just a fluke?

I have played older versions (4.3 to 7.0) but it never happened to me before.

[Supervisor]

I would say just a fluke but the Campaign generator has seem to had more and more problems arise as the game engine kept changing.

[G_X]

Did you delete your steel.prf?

I've never had it do this too me in a good many Generated campaigns, all I can tell you is to simply play a Long WWII Campaign, as it should be in perfect working order. Or always is for me.

[Supervisor]

Good point, look in the :\MatrixGames\Steel Panthers World at War\save directory and if you have these files steel.prf and holder.txt delete them and then restart SPWAW.

[Kraut]

Thank you, I have deleted them.

[Kanon Fodder]

Isn't steel.prf the Preferences settings ?

I looked in my directory and it is there, dated August 8th - the last day I played SPWaW and made changed to my preferences.

[Penetrator]

The same thing happened to me back in v6. Was playing as the russians against finns, poles and rumanians... I think.

[Supervisor]

Yes the steel.prf file is preference setting but the way it works is it controls all rules (kind of like the game masters rule book, it can even cause the display of the game to go amoke) of the game in every aspect, so if something goes crazy for an unexplained reason, it's always best to delete this file and let the game rebuild it, as it will not casue any conflicts with ongoing games when it's rebuilt.

[Kanon Fodder]

Thanks, gmenfan.

I thought it might rebuild itself, but wanted to be sure.

[G_X]

A Non-rebuilding steel.prf file would be a horrible idea

Could you imagine having to hand-build the steel.prf file? I'm a c++ Coder and for me that's a bit extreme