I'm having a texture issue.

[Cobra5150]

Hi everyone. I'm trying to get a TMO RSRDC install working. I had it working perfectly a week ago. Then I did a fresh install of SH4 and reloaded the mods. After the fresh install I keep getting all white sub interior and crash to desktops. Sometime just my dials are white. It will sometimes allow me to view the sub interior normally but CTD when changing to bridge or external view.

I have a feeling this is a graphics card issue not a mod issue as I had the mods working previously and my GPU did have a driver update recently.

Any help would be amazing. I am itching to play SH4 TMO RSRDC again.

[propbeanie]

You've got TMO2.5 & patch, RSRDC and patch, and that's all? Is the mod folder structure correct? Since you did a fresh install of SH4, did you by chance take a snapshot of the fresh install? If so, and with all the mods removed, what does a compare show?

[Cobra5150]

I'm using all the current patches for TMO & RSRDC. A compare showed me this.

A:\SteamLibrary\steamapps\common\Silent Hunters Wolves of the Pacific\SI.bin is new!
A:\SteamLibrary\steamapps\common\Silent Hunters Wolves of the Pacific\Data\Textures\TNormal\tex\German.dds 12/26/2016 1:29:18 PM no longer exists!
A:\SteamLibrary\steamapps\common\Silent Hunters Wolves of the Pacific\Data\Textures\TNormal\tex\German_m.dds 12/26/2016 1:29:18 PM no longer exists!

I am positive that the mod structure is correct. It worked recently and now is completely FUBAR after a new install. Vanilla works fine, but once TMO and RSRDC are activated the sub interior textures are white including order bar dials, which eventually leads to a CTD. I also redownloaded the mods to be sure files were not corrupt.

[propbeanie]

TMO has the same non-fatal flaw that FotRS Ultimate had, and that is a rampant or rogue "-remove" call on those two German dds files. If you have a clean stock install on your computer, you can copy those two file back into the correct data / textures / TNormal / tex / folder. If you don't have a clean install, then download the FotRSU_RepairToStock.7z file from

https://www.dropbox.com/s/xotgyee351...oStock.7z?dl=0

and extract and copy those two files from it. That's the 7 files we had issues with, but you only need the two.

As for the SI.bin, I think that file changes every time you play the game, or maybe it's when you go on patrol... ?? Can't remember exactly, but that's probably why it shows as "New".

I would be tempted to uninstall the whole thing again, delete your Save folder in the My Documents area, and re-do it all again. Just be sure your MODS folder structure is correct before you do that. I've messed myself up more than I care to remember by having two too many folders under the MODS folder, and "activating" the folder, instead of the mod itself, especially with patches...

[Cobra5150]

just did a fresh install again. Verified everything was as it should be. Once I activated RSRDC I could see the sub interior and all the stations and screen except for the bridge, periscope and external view. When I switched to these latter view I get a CTD.

I restarted the game a few times to try out the various stations and after the fourth restart of the game I get the all white sub interior textures again.

Could this be related to my graphics drivers or something. This all worked flawlessly a week ago.

[propbeanie]

I never did RSRDC too much, but I do remember the nVidia cards back when (2007? 8??) had some trouble, some of which is documented in nvidia tweaks to SH3/SH4.... I doubt if that still applies (especially if you have an ATI card... tic).

If you installed a new driver, try to roll that back and see what you get, though I don't know how they'd ruin that in today's "modern" computer world... unless maybe you didn't install DirectX v9 with the game?... but I don't think it'd run past the menu in stock trim without that...

[Cobra5150]

things get weird, because I found an old backup SH4 installation from years back that had RSRDC and I copied it into my current game directory and it works flawlessly. I am so confused right now.

Why would a fresh install, with freshly installed mods have this problem? super strange.

[propbeanie]

My brain fails me right now, but you could do a "compare" of the folders, and see which file(s) are different. I just can't think of a program to use for that at this moment... there's a few of them out there though. It's apparently not the video driver or card, of course... You did update to UBM, and write-enable SH4.exe? Do you need to use the LAA applet on it on your computer? Is your backup a Steam version?

[Cobra5150]

I used LAA, I am using UBM and the version is a steam version. Havent enabled write protection

[propbeanie]

Does "Stock" work fine? If so, what happens if you activate the GFO mod?

Also, not "enabling write-protect", just the file's Properties page, General tab for the file, and making sure the "read only" box is cleared, to allow writing to the file for LAA.

[Zky]

UPDATE 2: Having issue on mod 1 (TMO 2.5). Texture issues straight away...
UPDATE: Removed Ralles Modsoup and all seemed to be fine, but moving through compartments made the game CTD. Will try a third reinstall with everything except ralles modsoup and see if that works.

I can tell you that I have the same issue! Haven't fixed it.

Just started trying to get in to sh again but it's painfull...

Here is my mod soup if that makes you wiser, graphic patch was installed when the problem came up so ignore it's position in the screenshot:



All my mods are from this list: http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/show...58#post2453858