Apolyton pack installation

[ekktor]

Hello,
I downloaded and installed the Apolyton pack and the modswapper, but when I try to launch the modified game I get SLIC error messages before the game starts about undeclared functions called Destroybuilding, GetPersonalityType...

Any idea what this problem is due to?

Regards

[centrifuge]

I believe, The way to get around this is to go to the userprofile.txt, find the line that says DebugSlic=, and make sure that it says no. Under the default setup, this file should be found in C:\Program Files\Activision\Call To Power 2\ctp2_program\ctp. I hope this helps.

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[Martin Gühmann]

That's one possibility that could cause the problem, but I think it is rather that the patch is not installed.

-Martin

[Immortal Wombat]

Patch

[ekktor]

Sorry again but its just another cause I think.
First the DebugSlic flag is set to No in the userprofile.
And I have issue 1.1 of CTP2 installed, the 1.11 patch installation just answers "You don't need to install the patch, bla, bla,bla" and quits.

[Martin Gühmann]

That's odd. For the patch there is only one patch the difference between 1.1 and 1.11 is that 1.11 has a more userfriendly installer for English windows versions that don't be UK or US IIRC, the content is the same. Could you give us the slic file and the line number from the error message, so we can locate the bug, ekktor?

-Martin

[ekktor]

OK I actually got many errors reports and can't get till the end. Here are the first ones (file > line num > undeclared function).

capturecity > 26, 47 > DestroyBuilding
diplomod > 100, 267 > GetPersonalityType
diplomod > 546 > Get AgreementDuration
airunit > 75 > TileHasImprovement
ComImpSForAIs > 51, 57, 63, 84, 90, 96, 107, 113 ... > TileHasImprovement

[Immortal Wombat]

Definately a patch thing. Try uninstalling CtP2 and reinstalling the game, then the patch, then ModSwapper, then the Apolyton Pack.
You shouldn't need to download it all again if you kept the zips.

Does the patch work strangely on non-English versions, Martin?

[centrifuge]

Also, just to be on safe side, make sure that you've installed CTP2 and the Patch, to the default directory...
The automated installer may have a problem finding it otherwise... It's a relatively simple thing, but I've run into problems with Activision's automated installs in the past, because I didn't have it in the default setup.

[ekktor]

Well I de-installed everything, re-installed the game, down-loaded all the files again and re-installed modswap and the mod pack: still got the same error. Getting nut!
Does anyone know where these 'DestroyBuilding', 'GetPersonalityType', 'GetAgreementDuration', 'TileHasImprovement' and 'ArmyIsValid' functions are supposed to be defined? Are they supposed to be default functions of the game?

[Locutus]

Yes, it's definitely a patch problem.

Uninstall CtP2, reinstall it to the default folder (Program Files\Activision\Call to Power 2), play the game for 1 or 2 turns, download the patch from the link that IW provided above (which is known to work), install it. Only if this has worked you can intall ModSwapper and Apolyton Pack, etc.

This procedure should work, or at least minimize the chance of failure (well, you could minimize it further by completely reinstalling Windows but that's an awful lot of work while the chance of this actually making a difference is slim). Let us know if this works or not...

[Locutus]

Oops crosspost. Well, in that case we'll have to get the old manual patch idea from the shelf again. Too bad I haven't gotten around to working on that yet... give me a day or two...

[ekktor]

Thanks everybody,
I de-installed and re-installed, this time in the default directory and it seems to work. I much appreciate your help, though I hate this $@#@ PC world where programs don't work the same way if you install them in a different directory
I'll enjoy the modpack now.

[Locutus]

Great to hear that
Yeah, Windows s*cks... (it's got to be a windows issue because we all have exactly the same game and only some of us have this problem)