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Originally Posted by Coral
Thanks to everyone for their insight and comments. Based on the above and my reading on the forums, I have the following questions:
1. I read on the steam forum, the following when running DW for Win10: " I also recommend that you make the dangerouswaters.exe Large Address Aware using this tool. https://www.techpowerup.com/forums/threads/large-address-aware.112556/" Does anyone have any thoughts on this? |
Never heard of something like that. I mean it definitely sounds like it could be useful if DW is running out of memory, but I don't think DW uses that much memory.
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2. It appears that using the RA mode is a one way street, so my question is: can you have multiple installs of DW, one plain vanilla and one with the RA mod, by having 2 folders, one labeled DW plain and one labeled DW_RA-and then just switching folders depending on the one you want to use? I know I did that in Falcon and IL-2, two other old games.
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You can do this using JSGME (generic mod enabler). There are instructions included in the README for RA that tell you how to do this. I have my game setup this way, so feel free to ask more questions regarding how to do it.
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3. I have read the forum on how to install RA and this is what I have found:
-clean install of DW
-patch DW to 1.04
- unzip the RA 1.41 file in the DW folder, and run the .BAT file,
- unzip the hotfix #1, go to the Graphics folder, and run the !_Patch_DWX_141_1.bat there
---extra notes: Do not use the patch01 that included inside the 1.41 mod. Do not replace the files manual. Download the zipped patch01 and "extract here" inside the DW directory. Let the program to do all the replacements (yes to all) Then run the "!_Patch_DWX_141_1.bat"
- finish extracting the hotfix #2 in the folder and replacing the existing files (have no .bat to run) Download the zipped patch02 and "extract here" inside the DW directory. Let the program to do all the replacements (yes to all).
---more notes: from another user “For me on Windows 7, I have to install RA 1.41 as an administrator. However, the Patch #1 batch file cannot be run as an administrator. I just run it normally (double click) and it works.”
One post I read (it was old) said that you had to replace some doctrine files, but I think that those instructions was replaced with 1.41. Correct?
I am going to post a separate reply concerning some mods that I found.
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That all sounds correct. I believe that part about running as an administrator is something I said
