Running Older Missions In GWX3

[Aviar]

I seemed to have figured out part of the problem. The mission name (filename) and the mission folder must be exactly the same. I probably knew this years ago but forgot.

So now when I click on my old mission's name the briefing does appear. When I click Start, the mission begins loading normally. However, just before the mission is fully loaded, the screen goes black and my game crashes. This happens with all my original missions that I created.

So, unmodded missions are not compatible with GFX3? Since two of my older missions were used in GFX3, I assume there is a way to get them to run. Is there some kind of trick or workaround?

How did the dev team get my original 'Ice Ice Baby' to run in GFX3..? I can't seem to do it.

Aviar

[Jimbuna]

Originally Posted by Aviar

I seemed to have figured out part of the problem. The mission name (filename) and the mission folder must be exactly the same. I probably knew this years ago but forgot.

So now when I click on my old mission's name the briefing does appear. When I click Start, the mission begins loading normally. However, just before the mission is fully loaded, the screen goes black and my game crashes. This happens with all my original missions that I created.

So, unmodded missions are not compatible with GFX3? Since two of my older missions were used in GFX3, I assume there is a way to get them to run. Is there some kind of trick or workaround?

How did the dev team get my original 'Ice Ice Baby' to run in GFX3..? I can't seem to do it.

Aviar

I'm sorry but I can't answer that final part because it was not an area I was involved with....I did create abot a dozen additional missions but I was using the updated files.

MANY Units had thier class or Names changed starting with GWX 2.0 I think it was.
So what may have been an Armed Trawler in older versions or stock has totally been re-class/renamed so the older Mission files can't find them and.............
CTD!
(BBW taught me that)

[Aviar]

Originally Posted by privateer

MANY Units had thier class or Names changed starting with GWX 2.0 I think it was.
So what may have been an Armed Trawler in older versions or stock has totally been re-class/renamed so the older Mission files can't find them and.............
CTD!
(BBW taught me that)

Thanks for that info. I was kind of afraid that was the issue. However, it seems strange that these 'older' missions don't crash the Mission Editor. You can even 'run' these missions in the ME with no apparent issues.

I don't suppose there is a list somewhere of the 'changes' you mentioned?

Aviar

The only list I had of all or most of the changes is long gone.

BBW sent me list way back and I could have sworn I burned a copy of alot of stuff to DVD.
But I have not been able to locate it.
I know it's on none of my HDs as I've searched every single one of the 10 I'm linked to.
If you could give me a link to one of the Missions that does not work I could look at it and see if I spot something obvious.

[Aviar]

No problem. I actually uploaded the mission to this site in 2005 and it is still here ---> http://www.subsim.com/subsim_files/patches2005_sh3.html

Scroll down to Custom Missions and look for the mission named 'Ice Ice Baby'.

Normally I would let this issue go because I understand that mods sometimes make older missions incompatible. However, after installing GWX3, I noticed that they included Ice Ice Baby in their Single Mission set.

So, they obviously found a way to make the mission work in GWX3. I looked at THEIR version in the ME and it looks exactly the same exept that they changed the BR PT Boat into a BR CO Flower.

Even if I delete the BR PT Boat in MY original mission, it will still crash my game if I try and run it in GWX3. In fact, if I delete every unit except my sub, the game still crashes. There is obviously something going on here. My guess is that there is a simple workaround to getting these older missions to work in GWX3.

Aviar

Got it.
I'll look at it right now.