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Offline Wingflier

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What's going on with my game?
« on: October 27, 2012, 02:40:27 pm »
I've got a weird error where 2 of my Champion Modules are pink and messed up:



Also it's giving me this error:



Pictures can be looked at more closely here:

http://imgur.com/H37OH,LLA0n#0

I already tried reinstalling the game from scratch completely.  It didn't fix it.

Can anybody tell me what's going on?
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Re: What's going on with my game?
« Reply #1 on: October 27, 2012, 02:56:58 pm »
Very odd.  If you look in this directory inside your AIW install:

RuntimeData\Expansions\4\Images\Ships\

Can you tell me whether you see the following directories, and what is in them :

RailClusterModule
RailClusterModuleII

PhotonLanceModule
PhotonLanceModuleII

?

Thanks :)
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Re: What's going on with my game?
« Reply #2 on: October 27, 2012, 04:39:36 pm »
RailClustermodule exists and has a picture of a rail cluster module (just 1 photo).

PhotonLancemodule exists and it has a picture of a photon lance (just 1 photo).

Those other 2 folders don't exist.
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Re: What's going on with my game?
« Reply #3 on: October 27, 2012, 04:50:19 pm »
I'm not sure what's going on, then, because my steam install has them, and I got it the normal way.

I'll try the installer from our website and see if it's missing them.
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Re: What's going on with my game?
« Reply #4 on: October 27, 2012, 05:05:35 pm »
Ok, I downloaded the basegame installer and AS installer from http://www.arcengames.com/w/index.php/aiwar-downloads and ran those to create an entirely new installation, and it has both of the folders that you're not seeing.

I suppose it's possible the download was missing some parts in your case.  Where did you get it?
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Re: What's going on with my game?
« Reply #5 on: October 27, 2012, 05:23:21 pm »
I don't technically own AS on Steam, I bought the key through the beta. Somewhere along the way Steam updated the game but didn't update AS or something - who knows.

When I uninstalled the game through Steam, it didn't uninstall the AS content since it doesn't recognize it.

To be honest I really don't know what happened but I'm going to make sure the whole folder is gone before I try again.
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Re: What's going on with my game?
« Reply #6 on: October 27, 2012, 07:02:49 pm »
Oh wow, I have to re-enter my game keys and everything?

FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU

edit:  Okay, the Ancient Shadows installer that I used before was 10MB.  The one linked on the website now is 129MB.  That's quite a difference in size.

How did I get a 10MB installer?
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Re: What's going on with my game?
« Reply #7 on: October 27, 2012, 07:22:48 pm »
The 10MB was the initial beta installer.  The 129MB one is the one released a little over a week ago, and includes the AS-specific music :)
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Re: What's going on with my game?
« Reply #8 on: October 27, 2012, 07:38:31 pm »
BTW, if I used the beta 10meg AS installer and have since patched to 6.002, do I need to download the new AS installer to get the new music?

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Re: What's going on with my game?
« Reply #9 on: October 27, 2012, 07:46:12 pm »
BTW, if I used the beta 10meg AS installer and have since patched to 6.002, do I need to download the new AS installer to get the new music?

Yep, you've gotta run the full installer to get it.