Strategic Command WWII: War in Europe – The “Panzerfaust Update”

[Steely Glint]

I am extremely unhappy with this upgrade. It's been the biggest pain in the butt of any Matrix upgrade I can remember and despite spending an entire evening dealing with it I still can't access my user campaigns to convert them.

[Taxman66]

There is a check box column for the mods on the right hand side of the mods window; click in there.
It doesn't stand out as it is barely a different color than the rest of the background color of the window and there is no text title for it.

[Steely Glint]

ORIGINAL: Taxman66

There is a check box column for the mods on the right hand side of the mods window; click in there.
It doesn't stand out as it is barely a different color than the rest of the background color of the window and there is no text title for it.

Thank you. It literally wasn't visible, even when I went looking for it.

I had to do a TOTAL uninstall/reinstall to get anything to work. Now I have the game and the mod working, but none of my campaigns will load in the game or in the editor.

[Wolfe1759]

Taxman66 - totally off topic but have to comment on your signature, are all Georges the same?


"I spent a lot of money on booze, birds and fast cars. The rest I just squandered." - George Best

[Hubert Cater]

I finally located the Campaign Converter, but I get a read fail error on every one of my user campaigns.

Sorry to hear about the trouble and using the Campaign Convertor should be pretty straight forward.

1) First, ensure your pre version 1.16 custom campaigns are located in your USER folder for the game. Note, using a campaign for this process where you've attempted to export from v1.15 or earlier, and then import to v1.16 and save after that will not work. The custom campaign has to be one from before v1.16.

Your USER folder can be typically found here:

C:\Users\<username>\Documents\My Games\Strategic Command WWII - War In Europe\Campaigns

2) Navigate to your installation folder for the game, and within the subfolder Extras, there is a 'Campaign Conversion' folder that contains the CampaignConverstionTool.exe file. We suggest reading the 'Campaign Conversion Tool README.pdf' prior to using this tool.

3) Launch the Campaign Conversion Tool, and open your customized campaign from within the USER Campaigns folder and run the conversion process. If successful, the tool will say as much.

4) Launch the v1.16 Editor and open your customized campaign. Re-compile any scripts as necessary and re-save the campaign.

5) Launch the Game and you should be able to now access your customized campaign under v1.16

Hope this helps,
Hubert

[Hubert Cater]

Steely Glint, if you are still having trouble, please feel free to send me an email to support@furysoftware.com and I'll be happy to help you sort this out.

[Steely Glint]

Hubert, I did everything except erase the .dat files. I'll try your list of steps precisely today and let you know.

Thank you for your support.

[Steely Glint]

Hubert, I followed your instructions precisely. The converter apparently worked - at least it reported that it did - but the campaigns are not selectable from the game menu. The editor can see the campaigns but cannot load them, as it yields a read fail error on all of them (my hard drive is fine, I checked).

Apparently I have lost ten modified campaigns to this “upgrade.” Moral: don’t ever, ever change campaign formats.

[Steely Glint]

Also, counter sets that have been installed in the game under "Mods" are not used by the editor, but only by the game itself. Can this be fixed so they both use the modded set?

[rjh1971]

ORIGINAL: Steely Glint

Hubert, I followed your instructions precisely. The converter apparently worked - at least it reported that it did - but the campaigns are not selectable from the game menu. The editor can see the campaigns but cannot load them, as it yields a read fail error on all of them (my hard drive is fine, I checked).

Apparently I have lost ten modified campaigns to this “upgrade.” Moral: don’t ever, ever change campaign formats.

I had the same issue after following your steps Hubert.

[Tanaka]

ORIGINAL: Hubert Cater

Ok this might be a Steam only issue then, we'll investigate further and issue a fix as needed.

Have you guys been able to reproduce my issue? Anyone else tried to make a mod and play it without success on steam?

[Hubert Cater]

ORIGINAL: Steely Glint

Hubert, I followed your instructions precisely. The converter apparently worked - at least it reported that it did - but the campaigns are not selectable from the game menu. The editor can see the campaigns but cannot load them, as it yields a read fail error on all of them (my hard drive is fine, I checked).

Apparently I have lost ten modified campaigns to this “upgrade.” Moral: don’t ever, ever change campaign formats.

Steely Glint

Unfortunately there was no way around not changing the campaign format if we wanted to bring War in Europe up to the same standard as World at War.

The good news is that I've found the issue and we should have a hotfix ready to resolve this for anyone wishing to updgrade their custom campaigns like yourself.

We hope to have this in the next few days, and again my apologies for the inconvenience. In the meantime, please don't discard your custom campaigns just yet.

[Hubert Cater]

I had the same issue after following your steps Hubert.

There is a fix on the way, please do not discard your custom campaign conversions just yet.

[Hubert Cater]

Have you guys been able to reproduce my issue? Anyone else tried to make a mod and play it without success on steam?

I've been testing with our latest Steam build and I am unable to repeat the issue, so either it is still something I've been unable to reproduce, or it is ideally now fixed for the next update.

[Tanaka]

ORIGINAL: Hubert Cater

Have you guys been able to reproduce my issue? Anyone else tried to make a mod and play it without success on steam?

I've been testing with our latest Steam build and I am unable to repeat the issue, so either it is still something I've been unable to reproduce, or it is ideally now fixed for the next update.

Hope so I've tried everything. It is so weird how it deletes my modded campaign from the user campaign folder and puts it in the backup campaigns folder. What are the campaign backup folders for anyway? Every time I delete them they reappear...

[Steely Glint]

Thanks, Hubert. I’ll wait patiently for the fix.

[rjh1971]

ORIGINAL: Hubert Cater

I had the same issue after following your steps Hubert.

There is a fix on the way, please do not discard your custom campaign conversions just yet.

Great!
Btw the version I use is the matrix one.
Thanks Hubert.

[Hubert Cater]

ORIGINAL: Tanaka

ORIGINAL: Hubert Cater

Have you guys been able to reproduce my issue? Anyone else tried to make a mod and play it without success on steam?

I've been testing with our latest Steam build and I am unable to repeat the issue, so either it is still something I've been unable to reproduce, or it is ideally now fixed for the next update.

Hope so I've tried everything. It is so weird how it deletes my modded campaign from the user campaign folder and puts it in the backup campaigns folder. What are the campaign backup folders for anyway? Every time I delete them they reappear...

On the Steam Library page for the game, one thing you could try (for now) is to disable the Community Pack by removing the tick in the check box for it.

Also, and just to confirm, is this for the legacy version of the game, i.e. v1.15.02, or for v1.16.00?

The Backup is created when the Community Pack installs, to backup the previous campaigns before it installs. Sounds like it is constantly installing on your end for some reason. But for v1.16.00 it should be installing to the application folder instead of the USER folder which is why this is all very confusing.

[PvtBenjamin]

I don't know if this has been discussed.

I am currently running Steam (1.15.02 beta) & Matrix (1.16). My Matrix 1.16 games appear payable in Steam (1.15.02) but not vice versa.

[Hubert Cater]

Hi PvtBenjamin,

Which games are these? PBEM++ games or saved games against the computer etc.?

Hubert