Campaign Series Middle East 2.00 SUPPORT THREAD

[Spartan7]

Crossroads;
As ever I appreciate your patience and guidance. I may be on to something.
I saved my current download to an external hard drive as I was making extensive changes to the OOB for the 8 part Chinese Farm scenarios. The 8 part series has a single OOB (Chinese.org).
I did a full uninstall on my C Drive and re-downloaded V2.0 to my C Drive C:Matrix Games\Campaign Series Middle East per the previous help you and berto provided. Now every scenario works fine.
I suspect that somehow my changes to the OOB caused scenarios 2 thru 8 to have a problem because of the common OOB. I vaguely remember having an issue with Tillers Campaign series in deleting units in the OOB resulted in scenarios not working.
Anyway, I think I need to be more careful in deleting items in modding the OOB. In the past I would put an "X" in front of the unit rather than deleting in from the OOB as a reminder not to put it on the map.
Not asking you to do anything. Just need to sharpen my skills on creating new OOBs and linking them to scenarios. Thanks again for the help.

[Jason Petho]

I highly recommend becoming familiar with the JSGME tool that is provided in the installation and how it works with modding. I believe it is explained in the manual how to use it. There is also a video that shows you how to turn on and off various mods.

If you do edits to your OOB's, do it as a MOD, then add it when you wish.

No need to have multiple installations of your core game.

[Jason Petho]

Section 16.3 cover the JSGME tool

[Jason Petho]

JSGME Video Link

[Crossroads]

^^ What Jason just said!

[Crossroads]

Here's a link to an earlier Developer Diary I did for JTCS covering how to mod OoB files, so a different game, but the basics apply here as well.

1. Create the mod directory, 2. Add the OoB files you want to change there, 3. Edit the said files, 4. Activate the mod to see them., 5. Deactivate the mod to go back to stock install.

[giffin]

Hi Guys, Went to my CSM Icon to open the game and hit the check for newer updates. I updated to new version 2.01. Now when I try to start game I get Pop Up "Failed to Extract Project File to Memory" Cant start game at all. Thank you in advance for Help.

Here is my Log Engine file 1st few lines in beginning and last lines:

2018-04-29 20:30:28 me.exe: [INFO ID 1] me.exe 1.02 startup
2018-04-29 20:30:28 me.exe: [INFO ID 1] _Game is 3
2018-04-29 20:30:28 me.exe: [INFO ID 1] _GameHomeDirectory is C:\Matrix Games\Campaign Series Middle East
2018-04-29 20:30:28 me.exe: [INFO ID 1] command line parameters:
2018-04-29 20:30:28 me.exe: [INFO ID 1] _loglevel is 1, _ai_loglevel is 1
2018-04-29 20:30:28 me.exe: [WARNING ID 100] manuals game directory not found
2018-04-29 20:30:28 me.exe: [WARNING ID 100] misc game directory not found
2018-04-29 20:30:28 me.exe: [INFO ID 1] in SoundsDat::SoundsDat(), opening data\sounds.dat for reading
2018-04-29 20:30:28 me.exe: [TRACE ID 1100] (map.cpp, line 40, Map::Map()) entering Map::Map()
2018-04-29 20:30:28 me.exe: [TRACE ID 1100] (map.cpp, line 592, Map::Allocate()) entering Map::Allocate()
2018-04-29 20:30:28 me.exe: [TRACE ID 1101] (map.cpp, line 623, Map::Allocate()) exiting Map::Allocate()
2018-04-29 20:30:28 me.exe: [TRACE ID 1101] (map.cpp, line 52, Map::Map()) exiting Map::Map()
-04-29 20:30:32 me.exe: [DEBUG ID 0] (misc.cpp, line 2065, GameFile()) in GameFile(), file is empty string
2018-04-29 20:30:32 me.exe: [DEBUG ID 0] (misc.cpp, line 2065, GameFile()) in GameFile(), file is empty string
2018-04-29 20:30:32 me.exe: [DEBUG ID 0] (misc.cpp, line 2065, GameFile()) in GameFile(), file is empty string
2018-04-29 20:30:32 me.exe: [DEBUG ID 0] (misc.cpp, line 2065, GameFile()) in GameFile(), file is empty string
2018-04-29 20:30:32 me.exe: [DEBUG ID 0] (misc.cpp, line 2065, GameFile()) in GameFile(), file is empty string
2018-04-29 20:30:32 me.exe: [DEBUG ID 0] (misc.cpp, line 2065, GameFile()) in GameFile(), file is empty string
2018-04-29 20:30:32 me.exe: [DEBUG ID 0] (misc.cpp, line 2065, GameFile()) in GameFile(), file is empty string
2018-04-29 20:30:32 me.exe: [DEBUG ID 0] (misc.cpp, line 2065, GameFile()) in GameFile(), file is empty string
2018-04-29 20:30:32 me.exe: [TRACE ID 1100] (filem.cpp, line 505, FileMenu::CheckStartup()) entering FileMenu::CheckStartup()
2018-04-29 20:30:32 me.exe: [TRACE ID 1100] (filem.cpp, line 666, FileMenu::OnFileNew()) entering FileMenu::OnFileNew()
2018-04-29 20:30:32 me.exe: [TRACE ID 1100] (filem.cpp, line 307, FileMenu::NewData()) entering FileMenu::NewData()
2018-04-29 20:30:36 me.exe: [TRACE ID 1101] (filem.cpp, line 346, FileMenu::NewData()) exiting FileMenu::NewData()
2018-04-29 20:30:36 me.exe: [TRACE ID 1101] (filem.cpp, line 681, FileMenu::OnFileNew()) exiting FileMenu::OnFileNew()
2018-04-29 20:30:36 me.exe: [TRACE ID 1101] (filem.cpp, line 544, FileMenu::CheckStartup()) exiting FileMenu::CheckStartup()
2018-04-29 20:30:41 me.exe: [TRACE ID 1100] (map.cpp, line 634, Map::Free()) entering Map::Free()
2018-04-29 20:30:41 me.exe: [TRACE ID 1101] (map.cpp, line 655, Map::Free()) exiting Map::Free()
2018-04-29 20:30:42 me.exe: [INFO ID 1] me.exe exit

[Jason Petho]

Unfortunately, the 2.01 UPDATE is not cumulative, so you will need to unistall 1.02, install 2.00 and then use the UPDATE feature to install 2.01

[giffin]

Thank you I deleted all files and uploaded the new 2.01 game.

[Jason Petho]

Good to hear, giffin!

[jc4751]

Couple of notes on issues I had to be able to run the game -

There didn't seem to be any difference between running on integrated graphics or a discrete graphics card. My graphics card is an RTX2070, integrated graphics is Intel UHD 630. You might have issues with that kind of setup, but it didn't make any difference for me which I ran on.

Second, I'm on Win 10 Home. I had to set compatibility to run for Windows 8 in order to have any of the in-game graphics show up, outside of the UI bar. Originally, I had a white screen where the map and terrain would be drawn, and the turn start icon was upside down. Running in Win 8 fixed it. I did not need to select any other compatibility options.

Third, I originally could not start the game. I would get a black box and then it would vanish. I looked in system errors and saw that it was griping about a sound driver. I looked and saw that my microphone was turned off. Selecting an audio output fixed it (long story as to why it's off, but it's due to WFH audio setup).

Last, I would suggest not just submitting direct x graphic logs, but go to the windows event viewer and look for errors in there. Not everything is a graphics issue, but might be something else.

[Crossroads]

^^Thanks for sharing this, @jc4751 , glad to hear you were able to sort it out!

[russelle911]

Hi,
Apologies if this is in the wrong place as I'm not very technical.
I have bought and downloaded CSME but I am unable to access the Scenarios list. I click on Start a new game and nothing happens. Eventually I get a not responding message. Everything else eg Campaigns, Edit etc work fine. I have uninstalled and reinstalled and used 2.0 and 2.1 but the scenarios list refuses to appear. Can anyone please advise me.
Thanks

[Jason Petho]

Good day, Russelle and thank you for the purchase!

I'll take a look at home and see how my system looks and provide a set by step just in case something is off.

[russelle911]

Thank you,
I've played all the previous Campaign Series games and greatly enjoyed them so I hope I can get to play this one too.

[Jason Petho]

When I open my menu with my 2.01 UPDATED game, I see the following:

Screenshot 2022-10-14 071342.jpg (144.73 KiB) Viewed 1270 times

Screenshot 2022-10-14 071415.jpg (105.08 KiB) Viewed 1270 times

Screenshot 2022-10-14 071435.jpg (124.12 KiB) Viewed 1270 times

Looking all good so far.

I'm wondering if the 2.00 or 2.01 UPDATES didn't install properly in your game?

[russelle911]

Hi Jason,
I have reinstalled for a fourth time and updated to 2.1. The music plays, I click on Play Scenario as in the middle screenshot but still nothing happens. The list in screenshot 3 does not appear. I also can't close the CSME picture without rebooting my computer. It's all very frustrating. I have over 200 games on my computer and nothing like this has ever happened before. I don't know if there's somewhere else on my system where I can look to see if it has installed properly.
Thanks
Russell

[Jason Petho]

Do you have discord? Or Skype? Or something else that we can share a screen?

I'll be happy to help you real time.

Let me know.

[russelle911]

Hi Jason,
No. Unfortunately I don't have anything like that.
I've noticed that on Steam if something isn't exactly right you can Verify Integrity of Game Files. That has worked for me with several games that don't seem to have installed 100% correctly. I'm probably showing my lack of I.T. knowledge here, but I wondered if there was something similar I could run on this game. If not I might just have to write this one off as bad luck. I was hoping to go for CS Vietnam next but this has made me a little hesitant.
Thanks
Russell

[russelle911]

Just as a bit of extra information. Each time I uninstall it takes about 10 attempts as it gets about halfway and then says Not Responding.
Thanks