07.12.2008, 09:28
Wongsing:
Man, I hear ya! I've kinda been where you are right now and at one point completely deleted my modded IL2! The only thing that saved me was a backup I'd made just days before on another hard drive. I backed up the entire game as I'd changed a couple of .dll files and couldn't remember what they were.
The version I deleted was the UI. For some reason I just couldn't get to first base with it. For one thing, UI apparently only works with AAA approved downloads. ShipPacks 1 & 2 are WIP (works in progress) and must be installed by hand. Other mods I wanted are also WIPs.
So, I went back to my working, modded, non-UI IL2. Something I finally noticed was, early on I had installed a mod called DAMAGEMOD that had several .ini files in it. There is another folder in the MODS folder called STD. Inside it were a couple of .ini files that were in DAMAGEMOD.
I opened the files that were the same in each folder, compared them line by line (a task that took forever), and made the necessary corrections in the file in the STD folder. After all the files from the DAMAGEMOD folder were either placed in the STD folder or had been appended to files that already existed in the STD folder, I deleted the DAMAGEMOD folder.
Now, something I haven't run into yet, and shouldn't at this point, is .ini files in folders other than the two I've mentioned here; this is something you'll have to watch for.
As for maps: I've only DL'd a few of them. I ran into a problem early on, a situation similar to what you've got. I decided, from that point on, I'd watch the forum on that map and wait until at least four pages had gone by before attempting another one. I settled on the four pages by watching various threads and discovered that the first page was devoted to high praise of a map that was needed/wanted. Page two started to show the problems encountered. Page three started the work-arounds and bug-fixes. By the end of page four the high praise started again. At this point I figured it was safe to DL that map. It's worked for me so far...
Long winded though this may be, I guess the moral of this story is: When you've got a working version with mods, back up that whole version. Or, at the very least, back up the MODS folder. Oh, and don't be too hasty to DL a mod.
Great days all.
Man, I hear ya! I've kinda been where you are right now and at one point completely deleted my modded IL2! The only thing that saved me was a backup I'd made just days before on another hard drive. I backed up the entire game as I'd changed a couple of .dll files and couldn't remember what they were.
The version I deleted was the UI. For some reason I just couldn't get to first base with it. For one thing, UI apparently only works with AAA approved downloads. ShipPacks 1 & 2 are WIP (works in progress) and must be installed by hand. Other mods I wanted are also WIPs.
So, I went back to my working, modded, non-UI IL2. Something I finally noticed was, early on I had installed a mod called DAMAGEMOD that had several .ini files in it. There is another folder in the MODS folder called STD. Inside it were a couple of .ini files that were in DAMAGEMOD.
I opened the files that were the same in each folder, compared them line by line (a task that took forever), and made the necessary corrections in the file in the STD folder. After all the files from the DAMAGEMOD folder were either placed in the STD folder or had been appended to files that already existed in the STD folder, I deleted the DAMAGEMOD folder.
Now, something I haven't run into yet, and shouldn't at this point, is .ini files in folders other than the two I've mentioned here; this is something you'll have to watch for.
As for maps: I've only DL'd a few of them. I ran into a problem early on, a situation similar to what you've got. I decided, from that point on, I'd watch the forum on that map and wait until at least four pages had gone by before attempting another one. I settled on the four pages by watching various threads and discovered that the first page was devoted to high praise of a map that was needed/wanted. Page two started to show the problems encountered. Page three started the work-arounds and bug-fixes. By the end of page four the high praise started again. At this point I figured it was safe to DL that map. It's worked for me so far...
Long winded though this may be, I guess the moral of this story is: When you've got a working version with mods, back up that whole version. Or, at the very least, back up the MODS folder. Oh, and don't be too hasty to DL a mod.
Great days all.