halp Thread - L.U.R.K. mod for S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Shadow of Chernobyl

Trying to install this, using smart mod manager. It says it's installed but it's loading the vanilla game, is there a separate .exe than the SoC one or something?

sorry, I suck, I know, I've been fucking with this for like 4 hours

Usual cause is that you need to edit the fsgame.ltx using notepad or an editor like notedpadd++ which is loacted in your install directory.

You need to change the line: $game_data$ = false| true| $fs_root$| gamedata\

to read: $game_data$ = true| true| $fs_root$| gamedata\

Hope that helps.

I can't find either version of that line in the file, should I just add it?

edit:
I'm using a nocd crack, could that affect it at all?

edit again:
had to reinstall, could someone give me a step by step of getting this set up without fucking over my install? thanks (I know, I suck)

Edited by: bydlo

If you have just reinstalled, it may be easier to just ditch the Smart Mod Manager, I did. I found it took far too long to install mods. So instead I just keep all my mods in the Stalker directory, but rename the mod folder to gamedata when I want to use it. So for instance I currently have Lurk 1.1 running as "gamedata", but have my older version of Lurk in a folder called "L 1.05". This way of renaming saves so much more time.

As for your fsgame.ltx it should be the second line of the file. The first being app_data and showing the install directory of SoC. Also a no cd crack shouldn't really have any effect.

If my writing is terrible to understand try googling fsgame.ltx . This will give you links to hundreds of threads where people ask the same thing.

I kept getting access denied when I tried to modify fsgame.ltx, so I cut and pasted it to another folder, modified it, then cut and pasted it back.

now the game opens and I get a black screen and it immediately crashes

what the fuck

this better be worth all this

Edited by: bydlo

Well I have never experienced anything like that I'm afraid, only thing I can think of is if your correctly saving the file as a .ltx or if your game is fully patched. I remember a while back some people on vista were having problems if the game was installed in a different directory. The work around was creating a .bat file in the same directory as fsgame.ltx.

This involves making a txt document and typing "start bin\xrengine" minus the speech marks and save it as .bat then you double click that and hope for the best.

disregard that I suck cocks

turns out I wasn't using 1.0005, I'd just assumed the version I downloaded was prepatched

bydlo wrote: I kept getting access denied when I tried to modify fsgame.ltx, so I cut and pasted it to another folder, modified it, then cut and pasted it back.

now the game opens and I get a black screen and it immediately crashes

what the fuck

this better be worth all this

I'm also having this problem, but there is something different from mine.
Does the original folder of the SoC have the gamedata folder ?
Because mine doesn't, it just have several gamedata.db files in the SoC folder.
And since I'm using the pirated version I can't patch it with the 1.0005 patch for SoC.
All I did so far was to modify the fsgame.ltx and copy paste the gamedata folder from the LURK zip, its size was a around 835 MB, it runs the game but past the advertises I have nothing but a black screen and a error message from the bugtrap. The same thing is happening with the AMK mod.

Please help