Conflict with mods via JSGME in GWX3

frau kaleun · 03-03-11, 02:00 PM

Anything that isn't in a mod's 'data' folder shouldn't be necessary for the mod to work correctly, unless the mod is designed to do something to files that are not in the game's analogous 'data' folder. I have yet to come across a mod for the game designed to be enabled by JSGME that has any files outside its 'data' folder that are necessary and not there just for documentation purposes.

However if there is a readme.txt or some other file outside the mod's data folder, JSGME will write it to the analogous spot in the game folder - which means it gets added to the game folder itself, one level up from the 'data' directory.

If you then enable another mod with a readme.txt file outside the 'data' folder, JGSME will do the exact same thing - write it to your game folder - but before doing so it will notify you that it already put something called 'readme.txt' in that same place when you enabled a previous mod... just like it does with files inside the 'data' directory when you enable a mod that overwrites something a previous mod did.

It used to throw me everytime that happened, now when I copy a mod to my MODS folder I just delete everything that doesn't need to be there for the mod to work properly. Since I have copies of all my mods saved on an external storage drive, the readme files and any other documentation files/folders are there if I need to refer to them... but I don't have a lot of unnecessary files cluttering up my game installation.

TheDarkWraith · 03-03-11, 02:06 PM

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Originally Posted by frau kaleun

Anything that isn't in a mod's 'data' folder shouldn't be necessary for the mod to work correctly, unless the mod is designed to do something to files that are not in the game's analogous 'data' folder. I have yet to come across a mod for the game designed to be enabled by JSGME that has any files outside its 'data' folder that are necessary and not there just for documentation purposes.

check my UIs mod in the SH5 mods forum. I have about 9 dlls I created for the mod that exist outside the data folder

frau kaleun · 03-03-11, 02:31 PM

I don't play SH5, so I wouldn't have come across those yet.

HW3 · 03-03-11, 03:31 PM

In answer to your original question, if you create a folder on the same level as the data folder, and name it Documentation, you can put the readme, and any other included information, such as mod screenshots in it, and JSGME will handle it automatically.

fitzcarraldo · 03-03-11, 03:48 PM

To your original question:

Readme.txt is only the information and instructions file of the mod. If you overwrites it with another readme of another mod, you will have the last readme added...Only that.

No readme file can produce any conflict between mods and it isn´t a cause of crashes.

If you install and uninstall constantly mods with JSGME, some "residuals" of the mod, not properly uninstalled, can remain in the data folder and that can create a conflict. Do you experiment some crash in JSGME when installing mods?

Do you use the 4GbPatch? Your load of mods isn´t important, but if your PC haven´t capacity, that can produce a CTD.

Best regards.

Fitzcarraldo

Feuer Frei! · 03-03-11, 06:50 PM

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Originally Posted by fitzcarraldo

Do you experiment some crash in JSGME when installing mods?

No i don't get any crashes usually when using JSGME, just in the case provided further down.

Quote:

Do you use the 4GbPatch? Your load of mods isn´t important, but if your PC haven´t capacity, that can produce a CTD.

I don't use the 4gb patch.

Does anyone know where i can obtain the December 23rd fix?
Links are all dead.

fitzcarraldo · 03-03-11, 07:11 PM

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Originally Posted by Feuer Frei!

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I don't use the 4gb patch.

If you have a 64 bit O.S. and + 2Gb RAM (2Gb or more), I recommend you the use of 4Gb Patch. This little patch avoid many of the frequents CTDs.

My best regards.

Fitzcarraldo

03-03-11, 03:31 PM	#4
HW3 Navy Seal Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Gresham Oregon Posts: 6,574 Downloads: 458 Uploads: 0	In answer to your original question, if you create a folder on the same level as the data folder, and name it Documentation, you can put the readme, and any other included information, such as mod screenshots in it, and JSGME will handle it automatically. __________________ "Some ships are designed to sink...others require our assistance." Nathan Zelk

03-03-11, 03:48 PM	#5
fitzcarraldo Argentinian Skipper Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: Somewhere between Buenos Aires and the Bungo Suido Posts: 5,318 Downloads: 3345 Uploads: 0	To your original question: Readme.txt is only the information and instructions file of the mod. If you overwrites it with another readme of another mod, you will have the last readme added...Only that. No readme file can produce any conflict between mods and it isn´t a cause of crashes. If you install and uninstall constantly mods with JSGME, some "residuals" of the mod, not properly uninstalled, can remain in the data folder and that can create a conflict. Do you experiment some crash in JSGME when installing mods? Do you use the 4GbPatch? Your load of mods isn´t important, but if your PC haven´t capacity, that can produce a CTD. Best regards. Fitzcarraldo __________________ *My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity - Wilfred Owen.*

03-03-11, 02:00 PM	#1
frau kaleun Rear Admiral Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: Skyri--oh who are we kidding, I'm probably at Lowe's. Again. Posts: 12,706 Downloads: 168 Uploads: 0	Anything that isn't in a mod's 'data' folder shouldn't be necessary for the mod to work correctly, unless the mod is designed to do something to files that are not in the game's analogous 'data' folder. I have yet to come across a mod for the game designed to be enabled by JSGME that has any files outside its 'data' folder that are necessary and not there just for documentation purposes. However if there is a readme.txt or some other file outside the mod's data folder, JSGME will write it to the analogous spot in the game folder - which means it gets added to the game folder itself, one level up from the 'data' directory. If you then enable another mod with a readme.txt file outside the 'data' folder, JGSME will do the exact same thing - write it to your game folder - but before doing so it will notify you that it already put something called 'readme.txt' in that same place when you enabled a previous mod... just like it does with files inside the 'data' directory when you enable a mod that overwrites something a previous mod did. It used to throw me everytime that happened, now when I copy a mod to my MODS folder I just delete everything that doesn't need to be there for the mod to work properly. Since I have copies of all my mods saved on an external storage drive, the readme files and any other documentation files/folders are there if I need to refer to them... but I don't have a lot of unnecessary files cluttering up my game installation.

03-03-11, 02:31 PM	#3
frau kaleun Rear Admiral Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: Skyri--oh who are we kidding, I'm probably at Lowe's. Again. Posts: 12,706 Downloads: 168 Uploads: 0	I don't play SH5, so I wouldn't have come across those yet.