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Originally Posted by Talvezny1
And I forgot to mention that it is the FOTRSU v1.0.1.g
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Probably the most common issue players have neglected when activating FotRSU is to fail to empty their Save game folder. This is generally found at "C:\Users \UserName \Documents \SH4". The only time it would be a different folder is if you have used MultiSH4 to name it something else. So navigate into that folder, and delete either the whole thing, the "data" below that, or the "cfg" folder below that. It all accomplishes the same thing.
What happens is when you play the Stock game, it writes quite a bit of the game's data from your install folder to that Save folder. You play the game more, it writes more. THEBERBSTER's version of Webster's GFO mod (which is very good, btw), is built mostly on Stock files, so you probably would not have noticed too much difference, but FotRSU uses different "calls" to the ships and planes used in the game, and that is where the problem comes in. For whatever reason, when you use a different configuration of the game (GFO versus FotRSU), the changes the mod would make are not written to the Save folder, if there is already a file by that name there already, so you end with a mix of GFO and FotRSU, which the SH4.exe and its associated files cannot run. The pieces will not mix together. When you empty the Save folder, the game will re-create it with the data from the game's install folder, and then be able to run correctly.
So, you have:
1. Fresh install of the game outside of a "Program Files" folder.
2. Move the mod zip file into your MODS folder and extract the files there.
3. Activate the mod using JSGME.
4. Use LAA from the "Extras" folder in the mod (FotRSU) to "open" the bits on "SH4.exe"
5. Navigate to "C:\Users \UserName \Documents \SH4" and delete the "data" folder below.
6. Start the game and change all of the Options to what you want.
7. Play the game - don't forget that the Career Options are accessed in the US Captain's Office from that radio console to the left in the view.
In theory, you should be good to go. #4 above is probably the 2nd most common piece overlooked. There are pdf files in the mod's "Support" folder that have all sorts of varying amounts of detail of the above. If you are good at manipulating an Adobe Reader menu, there is "01_FotRSU_TableOfContents.pdf" that can be opened and used to access most of those pdf files. The trick to that comes from the way you configure your pdf Reader app.
