French version incompatibilities
 

After some experiences!

- LwAmi files are incompatible ith the french version :down: (error code 13001)
- Can't play in MP with US and French version :down:

It appear the db have not the same filename : FDB for french verison and EDB for english verison (??). We will try do more tests.

It's a shame......Don't know if i'll buy the french version finally....:damn:

Wait, lets be clear about this : is the stock french version incompatible with the stock us version ? Or is the incompatibility only on the modded version ?

At this time some can't play with LwAmi in SP and MP
Some can't play with FR Version with other in US (with/without LwAmi)
but others can do all with FR as we do with US version.
We are investigating about this problems.

Damn, this is bad news indeed. :damn::damn:

Indeed

this + the very small french manual (1/5 of the english one) = less copies to sell here in France :(

If it's a matter of three letters, and the difference is the same throughout the DB, could a script be written to rename the relevant files, or is it more complex than that?

who knows

maybe someone from scs can answer that question (if they know) ?

We certainly did not intend anyone with the English, French, or German versions not to be able to play MP together... We'll take a look.

Thanks!

That would be nice from you Jamie :up: cause some of the new players have waited so long to get their FR release !

feel free to use our email to get in touch with us if needed :

webmaster@mile-sabords.com

Edit : Jamie we ran some testing to understand and let me show you

This is my DW version (US) database folder :
http://www.mille-sabords.com/forum/u...1151960515.jpg


This is the French version 1.03 (without Lwami)
http://www.mille-sabords.com/forum/u...0585_thumb.jpg

Finally the French version 1.03 + Lwami
http://www.mille-sabords.com/forum/u...0717_thumb.jpg

As you can see the French vers comes with new prefixes "F" instead of "E" for mine. I guess the F stands for French when the E means E.

So in my understanding, the game simply doesn't care about what it doesn't know and with the "E" files.

Then we tried something else and uninstalled the Lwami to move back to the regular 1.03 game and try to play MP with a US game and a FR game.

And we got this :

- Client databases are different than the Host
- Client interface files are different than the host

http://www.mille-sabords.com/forum/u...1499_thumb.jpg

I wonder if renaming them (the LWAMI files) would work, or would this cause problems again?

we just tried, moved the lwami files from the /mod/lwami/database to the dw/database and renamed all files from exxxx to fxxxx

when connecting to the host (US version) we just get a message saying the interface files are not the same but nothing about the database files, that's maybe a good point but I hope it doesn't do weird things with the game ?

I think you guys may have the solution there.

If the game loads for the French players with the renamed files with no errors, and you guys can connect without database errors, then the problem should be solved.

In terms of the interface files, they were probably updated with french text for the firecontrol, etc., so that's probably what the error message is from, but I feel good that it won't effect gameplay.

Thanks for keeping us updated! :)

Cheers,
David

I'm glad to hear your positive feedback Luftwolf and I thank you again for your fantastic mod :)

I have one more question for you or Jamie.

Let's say a host and a client have different database files. The game starts after the warning but what happens then ? What version counts ? host or client ? or a mix of both ?

ps : tonight is our weekly online training (for the french community) and we'll go through several games I believe, so we'll see what happens then.

Phullbrick,

The host will be the 'master', if memory serves.


James