Falcon Euro Theatre Beta Help

[DDeuce]

OK did the install...Euro does not show as menu item in theatres.....files are in Falcon Folder.......as to where they are SUPPOSED to be I have not a clue.......Delta

[ccc]

Did you check campaign page, tick [Europe] in theater selection window, and press [ok] to switch it?

or europe didn't show up in campaign selection window?

[DDeuce]

Euro shows up Nowhere in Falcon after launch.....nor Patch......btw I do not show a driver package for Euro

[Doze]

I'm having troubles geting the installer to work properly. (I re-installed f4 for SP3.)I believe I didn't uninstally it correctly. When i run the program it asks me where the theater has been installed and wants to uninstall it. Of course, I can't find where the Europe theater is because it hasn't been installed. Any ideas on how to fix this?

Thanks Ahead,

Doze
The Freebrids

[beetlebailey]

DDeuce,

After poking around a little, I think I found why it won't show up on the theater UI page.

In the Falcon4 folder (or wherever you installed Falcon) there is a file called "theater.lst". You can open it with notepad and edit it. It is a list of known theaters. For some reason, the only one in there is Korea. Type in a line as follows: terrdata/theaterdefinition/europe.tdf

It should show up on the UI then. Now if I can find what is causing the CTD, I'll fly a mission or three.

Good luck,
Beetle

[beetlebailey]

quote:Originally posted by Doze:
I'm having troubles geting the installer to work properly. (I re-installed f4 for SP3.)I believe I didn't uninstally it correctly. When i run the program it asks me where the theater has been installed and wants to uninstall it. Of course, I can't find where the Europe theater is because it hasn't been installed. Any ideas on how to fix this?

Thanks Ahead,

Doze
The Freebrids

Doze,

Just go ahead and click OK to let it uninstall the theater, then just run the installer again. Kinda the long way to do it, but it works.

As for where it is installed, I assume it installed it into Microprose/Falcon4. It did for me anyway.

Beetle

[Snake Man]

quote:Originally posted by Doze:
When i run the program it asks me where the theater has been installed and wants to uninstall it. Of course, I can't find where the Europe theater is because it hasn't been installed.

Really? You NEVER installed ANY of the earlier europe theater versions in your computer?

PMC TFW
Snake Man

[DDeuce]

OK Terdata.lst worked...it shows but CTD'S GALORE........ooohhheeeeeeeee no whut ahh meeaannn vern ?

[beetlebailey]

quote:Originally posted by DDeuce:
OK Terdata.lst worked...it shows but CTD'S GALORE........ooohhheeeeeeeee no whut ahh meeaannn vern ?

Same here. I can get it to go to the pie screen then I'm staring at the Desktop. Hope someone can shed some light on this.

Beetle

[Snake Man]

Please give more information of your current installation. Its one of these

"my car won't start, whats the problem???"

PMC TFW
Snake Man

[Doze]

quote:Originally posted by beetlebailey:
Doze,

Just go ahead and click OK to let it uninstall the theater, then just run the installer again. Kinda the long way to do it, but it works.

As for where it is installed, I assume it installed it into Microprose/Falcon4. It did for me anyway.

Beetle

I wish it was that easy. The thing is... It's not installed ANYWHERE on my hard drive. I believe i just uninstalled it incorrectly the 1st time and now it is giving me slack.

When I click the next button a messsage box appears saying, "European folder is not installed in the default F4 location. Select the location of the SP2Xinstallation. Do you want to select another folder?"

If I click yes.. it asks me to chose another folder. If I click no.. it closes the program.

Snake Man,
Yes, I did install an earlier version of the european theater. But.. I GUESS I didn't uninstall correctly. So now when I try to Install the new version (???) it asks me to uninstall (which I cannot do) EVERYTIME.

Thanks again,

Doze

[Snake Man]

quote:Originally posted by Doze:
Yes, I did install an earlier version of the european theater. But.. I GUESS I didn't uninstall correctly.

http://www.pmctactical.org/f4/faq.php

PMC TFW
Snake Man

[beetlebailey]

quote:Originally posted by Doze:
I wish it was that easy. The thing is... It's not installed ANYWHERE on my hard drive. I believe i just uninstalled it incorrectly the 1st time and now it is giving me slack.

When I click the next button a messsage box appears saying, "European folder is not installed in the default F4 location. Select the location of the SP2Xinstallation. Do you want to select another folder?"

If I click yes.. it asks me to chose another folder. If I click no.. it closes the program.

Snake Man,
Yes, I did install an earlier version of the european theater. But.. I GUESS I didn't uninstall correctly. So now when I try to Install the new version (???) it asks me to uninstall (which I cannot do) EVERYTIME.

Thanks again,

Doze

Now I understand. Sounds like the one you had on there earlier has left pieces of files on your PC. Most likely in the register. Now it is seeing those pieces and thinking you have the entire theater still there. If you don't have RegCleaner, or something similar you might find it using regedit, but you'll have to hunt around in there for it. Could get dicey, so be careful. Don't delete anything you're not sure of.

[beetlebailey]

Snakeman,

I just installed SP3 according to the manual. My platform is Win ME, I have a Gateway Essentials 700 with a Celeron 733 proc.,a 40gb HD, 384mb RAM, and a cheap Intel Vid Card. (Sorry, don't know the specs on the card, and I'm scared to look.)

If it would help I could send you, or post a crashlog.

Beetle

[Doze]

I finally have the problem solved. It involved the solution in the faq about removing all the sp2 europe theater registry keys, and it worked!


Thanks much for your help Beatlebailey and Snake Man.

[DDeuce]

[quote]quote:Originally posted by DDeuce:
OK Terdata.lst worked...it shows but CTD'S GALORE........ooohhheeeeeeeee no whut ahh meeaannn vern ? P.S. You guys need to make a Header Post on Home Page so People will know which theatres available are SP3 compatible....thanx btw...Great Work (Euro Looks GREAT

[covington]

Okay, I am closer. I added "terrdata\theaterdefinition\europe.tdf" to the theater list. Now when I go to the theater switcher I see the European theater with the words "Dont we need European Switch Art "
I am getting closer. What I do not understand is that I had no problems or crashes loading the patch.

Thanks

H2

P.S. There has never been any previous theaters installed. I am perplexed??