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yeah, i'm an old hand with DCG and have never had many problems with it i couldn't figure out...but after a recent break with DCG and IL2 i've come back to discover many things changed. and not working.
fresh install of game patched correctly. up2.00 installed... game working wonderfully well. NO problems.
download and install newest version of DCG (3.43)... start, select 'third' party campaign folder... NOTHING!
try a stock DCG campaign... NOTHING!
try widowmaker's new class/ect files in DCG data... NOTHING.
uninstall DCG and re-install. still NOTHING.
neither the offline campaign or the online DCG campaigns seem to function (though for some odd reason i did finally manage to generate and fly one single online coop mission thru DCG but wasn't able to generate a second one!)
question: has ANYBODY managed to get DCG running (offline and online) with the new UP2.00? and if so, can you give me a blow by blow description of how you did it?
thanks for any help.
Hello,
I had some problems too with DCG 3.43 and UP2.0.
I switched to DCG 3.40 and so far no troubles: one desert campaigne running since two weeks and all seems fine.
Hope that my experience can help you.
Edit: I tested DCG offline only, somebody else may give you some advice concerning online play
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GEORGES44 Wrote:Hello,
I had some problems too with DCG 3.43 and UP2.0.
I switched to DCG 3.40 and so far no troubles: one desert campaigne running since two weeks and all seems fine.
Hope that my experience can help you.
Edit: I tested DCG offline only, somebody else may give you some advice concerning online play
hey Georges...thanks for the reply. did you do ANYTHING special to make it work? change anything? redo the class/payload/squadron files...etc? and if so, what? i tried an earlier version also with no results but not sure it was 3.40. anyway, thanks again for replying.
Nothing special, just standard installation; nothing changed, except the missions/ campaign settings.
I kept the english language version although I'm french, I have seen too much problems in missions briefings when using a non-english version.
I tried DGEN replacement and Offline career (auto generation): both worked, for the moment I stick to Offline carreer which suits me best.
Works for me. But some 3 party campaigns have errors with 3.43 version 3.40 is more stable, i think.
DCG is by far the best mission maker ATM (easiest). Haven't test the dgen replaced campigns, though.
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ah well glad you got it working...unfortunately i also tried it (redownloaded 3.40 to be sure) and no results. won't even read my 'third' party campaigns or place them in the selection box and though it will show the 'stock' campaigns, it won't generate anything on them... on or offline. just clicks and nothing happens. bad deal there.
anybody else having results getting DCG to run with UP2.00? any help appreciated! :?
This is mainly modified DCG files cause instability and reports DCG errors like "is not integer value":evil:. Adding more planes into the Widowmaker's class.dcg produces the same error. I think even Paul Lowengrin mentioned so far restricted the number of aircraft in class.dcg in the number of 500 items, and he wants to expand in 3.44.
I tried DCG 3.43 with UP2.0 and got it working, but I tried the Lenningrad campaign by mistake (this happened to me with UI1.2). When the campaign was running I got a memory error then, POOF, no more campaigns. Couldn't continue the current one and couldn't start any new ones. The only thing that worked with UI 1.2 was to reinstall EVERYTHING!!! IL2, DCG, the whole shooting match from scratch. I left UP 2.0 alone and have not touched it since. Now I only run offline DCG campaigns with HSFX 4.1 and under no cercunstances do I run the Lenningrad campaigns.
question: has ANYBODY managed to get DCG running (offline and online) with the new UP2.00? and if so, can you give me a blow by blow description of how you did it?
thanks for any help.[/quote]
I have been running 3.43 with UP 2.0 mostly successfully but in some missions - pending my choice of aircraft (even original ones) it will not save the mission and I get a :1 is not a valid integer.
I checked the DCG site and Paul L. is aware of the issue and is working on changes for 3.44. Something about some changes in the way the log files are recorded in UP2.0 and DCG not in sync with the changes.
Other than saving certain missions I can run the program fine.
As far as it not starting up from what you say the previous version also doesn't - If you are running Windows 7 configure the DCG.exe to run in XP mode and also select "run as administrator".
Cheers,
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like i said, i'm an OLD hand with DCG... ran into problems before but was always able to figure them out... but THIS time... it's a solid NO GO! :???: to me, DCG seems completely unsuportive of UP2.00 no matter what i try. i was finally able to generate a 'player defined' campaign with 3.40, but after the first mission it gave me the infamous "1" error and would not generate another one behind it.
for me, it's a bust all the way around. a shame since DCG is the 'best' of the random campaign generators.
apparently UP2.00 has completely changed the way DCG uses IL2... and since Paul doesn't really support the mods, i don't know if this will be fixed or not.
i'm bummed.
NOTE: i'm running XP... not Win7.
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DCG cant read the logs, which are modified by the latest Ultrapack. Lowengrin is already working on it.
The guys at the Ultrapack side maybe provide a switcher for switching back to the old logs.
So its a matter of time till this is solved
Yep, what Vector said.
And there was also a plane limit that Paul increased with the one of the more recent versions that was causing aircraft not to show up in DCG beyond a certain number. (there was a bug but it was squashed for the latest beta of 3.44)
But the log error problem with 2.0 was the big one which he is still/was working on.
Oh and btw, once you do get it working...
my file package will give you access to the HSFX added content in UP 2.0, but not any of thier custom aircraft
(just watch for any erroneous loadout changes)
S~
Are you guys using the integrated version in UP 2.0 itself, or are you using it from mods folder? Just a question, because, I had made the mistake by not activating the DCG in the JSME thing.
Happy New year
