Sub Command & SCX

dazzer · 10-28-15, 09:20 AM

After a long time away have dusted off the SC to revisit it. I have a problem with SCX and not sure if its actually installed properly or its just me and my memory of what SCX does within SC. I'm running Win8.1 and downloaded SC from steam, I then installed SCX into the SC folder within the steam program.
On starting SC, the splash screen appers and in the bottom right corner the SCX11c is visible.
But the game still seems to be stock nothing seems to be different, I'm I missing something?
Any pointers would be gratefully received

Aktungbby · 10-28-15, 09:21 AM

dazzer!

Jimbuna · 10-29-15, 06:51 AM

My apologies, I don't have SC but welcome to SubSim

Pisces · 10-29-15, 09:26 AM

If you got it with Steam then the game is likely installed somwhere in the Steam folder in C:\Program Files\Steam. Windows UAC prevents the mod from modifying the game files. Ideally the game should not be installed in Program Files as the game relies on saving files into the Scenario folder. A solution may be to make a copy of the game folder and place this elsewhere on the c-drive. And run the subcommand executable from there. But iirc you also need to tweak a registry setting so the game knows where it's files are stored. I'm sure it is talked about in some thread in here over the years.

Also, the SCU program hacks the Subcommand executable to get different playable units, it's changing specific bytes inside. The Steam version of the file is different, and so SCU cannot work on this.

Orbiter688 · 01-05-16, 11:52 AM

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Originally Posted by Pisces

If you got it with Steam then the game is likely installed somwhere in the Steam folder in C:\Program Files\Steam. Windows UAC prevents the mod from modifying the game files. Ideally the game should not be installed in Program Files as the game relies on saving files into the Scenario folder. A solution may be to make a copy of the game folder and place this elsewhere on the c-drive. And run the subcommand executable from there. But iirc you also need to tweak a registry setting so the game knows where it's files are stored. I'm sure it is talked about in some thread in here over the years.

Also, the SCU program hacks the Subcommand executable to get different playable units, it's changing specific bytes inside. The Steam version of the file is different, and so SCU cannot work on this.

So if I'm interpreting this correctly, because we purchased it via Steam we will not be able to use the SXCII & SCSIIc mods for SubCommand?

Pisces · 01-05-16, 12:52 PM

No, just the SCU utility of it that allows you to change to a non-stock playable class. All other mod features are still functional.

10-28-15, 09:20 AM	#1
dazzer Bilge Rat Join Date: Dec 2013 Posts: 1 Downloads: 3 Uploads: 0	Sub Command & SCX After a long time away have dusted off the SC to revisit it. I have a problem with SCX and not sure if its actually installed properly or its just me and my memory of what SCX does within SC. I'm running Win8.1 and downloaded SC from steam, I then installed SCX into the SC folder within the steam program. On starting SC, the splash screen appers and in the bottom right corner the SCX11c is visible. But the game still seems to be stock nothing seems to be different, I'm I missing something? Any pointers would be gratefully received

10-28-15, 09:21 AM	#2
Aktungbby Gefallen Engel U-666 Join Date: Jul 2013 Location: On a tilted, overheated, overpopulated spinning mudball on Collision course with Andromeda Galaxy Posts: 29,979 Downloads: 24 Uploads: 0	welcome aboard! dazzer! __________________ "Only two things are infinite; The Universe and human squirrelyness?!!

10-29-15, 06:51 AM	#3
Jimbuna Chief of the Boat Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: 250 metres below the surface Posts: 190,445 Downloads: 63 Uploads: 13	My apologies, I don't have SC but welcome to SubSim __________________ Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something. Oh my God, not again!!

10-29-15, 09:26 AM	#4
Pisces Silent Hunter Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: AN9771 Posts: 4,904 Downloads: 304 Uploads: 0	If you got it with Steam then the game is likely installed somwhere in the Steam folder in C:\Program Files\Steam. Windows UAC prevents the mod from modifying the game files. Ideally the game should not be installed in Program Files as the game relies on saving files into the Scenario folder. A solution may be to make a copy of the game folder and place this elsewhere on the c-drive. And run the subcommand executable from there. But iirc you also need to tweak a registry setting so the game knows where it's files are stored. I'm sure it is talked about in some thread in here over the years. Also, the SCU program hacks the Subcommand executable to get different playable units, it's changing specific bytes inside. The Steam version of the file is different, and so SCU cannot work on this.

01-05-16, 12:52 PM	#6
Pisces Silent Hunter Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: AN9771 Posts: 4,904 Downloads: 304 Uploads: 0	No, just the SCU utility of it that allows you to change to a non-stock playable class. All other mod features are still functional.