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Problems with 7.1?
Posted: Tue Aug 13, 2002 4:33 pm
by 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.
Posted: Wed Aug 14, 2002 12:57 am
by 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.
Posted: Wed Aug 14, 2002 4:28 am
by 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.
Posted: Wed Aug 14, 2002 4:33 am
by 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.
Problems with 7.1
Posted: Wed Aug 14, 2002 12:48 pm
by Kraut
Thank you, I have deleted them.
Posted: Wed Aug 14, 2002 7:44 pm
by 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.
Posted: Wed Aug 14, 2002 8:17 pm
by Penetrator
The same thing happened to me back in v6. Was playing as the russians against finns, poles and rumanians... I think.
Posted: Wed Aug 14, 2002 10:16 pm
by 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.
Posted: Thu Aug 15, 2002 3:12 am
by Kanon Fodder
Thanks, gmenfan.
I thought it might rebuild itself, but wanted to be sure.
Posted: Sat Aug 17, 2002 10:49 am
by 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
