Installing BlackICE may seem daunting at first, but provided you follow the directions here, you should have a relatively easy time with it.
Step 1:
After you have downloaded BlackICE, copy the installer to the same directory that as the hoi3game.exe and hoi3_tfh.exe files in it. Generally speaking, this will be somewhere like:
• d:\games\Hearts of Iron 3
• c:\games\steam\steamapps\common\Hearts of Iron 3
Step 2:
Install Podcat's LAA (Large Address Aware) version of the HOI3 .exe file with BlackICE. This will solve a great many issues with the game crashing as it will take advantage of the larger amounts of memory that newer computers can use. Podcat's LAA .exe file can be found in the following Tech Support thread on the PI forum
•Overwrite the original hoi3_tfh.exe file with it.
Step 3:
Run the installer. Do Not Change ANYTHING unless you know what you are doing, just hit next until you
- Seaplane Tender
- Heavy Artillery
- Railway Artillery - Long range aux vessels
- Many more unique divisions/ HQs added including famous Panzer korps, Army HQs and Army groups HQs each with unique counters.
- Added XXXIII. Uboat
- Added GER_Pz38_rgt for 7. and 8. Panzer-Division
- Added GER_pz35_rgt for 6. Panzer-Division
-jap multi role model 9 fixed
-german heavy armor GFX corrected
-Better event image for Overlord/FUSAG event
-Replacement model images for AST battle commanders (Blamey and Morshead)
-Backgrounds of Gurkha and Commando brigades made consistent with Mountain brigades
-Updated counters for German U-Boat Flotillas
-Updated Combined Arms counters
-Replacement counters for combined arms brigades (Kampfgruppen)
-Replacement SS HQ counters
-New model images and localisation tweak for ENG airunits
-Changed the starting techs for subs, medicine, destroyers for Germany to be more historical
-Changed special forces branch difficulty lowered to level 2
-Jap naval doctrine update
-Changed Division HQ command structure tech to be 12 levels instead of 6, and adjusted values for bonuses accordingly (halved them per level)
-missing ss/guards units added to a few techs
-Added commando_brigade/ss_commando_brigade to several special forces techs. Also added a missing desert bonus for them in the "Commando Training" tech, etc.
-some SF techs supply consumption reduction reduced
-hidden tech for red airforce effiecnecy penalty after the purges - penalty removed when germans begin zitadelle offensive (1943)
-AI hidden tech gives small boosts to land unit air attack
-Individual Allied Majors difficulty level option added to Allied difficulty event
-Danish 20mm AA captured by germany
-Gustav/ Doar split into two events. historically available in 1942 not 1941.
-Added localisation for US Naval HQ events
-Greater chance Japanese AI won't annex of manchuria
-AI Japan might DOW soviet player when the germans attack
-soviet offensives recieve greater TP bonus
-SS pack artillery activation event image
-Added event-chain for Moscow Proletarian Rifle Div to 1 Gds Mot.-Rifle Div.
-UK, US, Soviet, Italian, Jap Railway artillery events
-artillery division event OOBs
-Moved Vichy OOB event (after their formation) back into production.
-Italian AI event OOBs for Africa depend on Italy losing ground in Africa
-manpower gain from anchluss reduced
-SS panzers now buildable earlier if ahistorical ss option chosen
-Fixed event text on the "Mulberries damaged by large storm" event.
-USA 6th Army Group will now no longer spawn in Corsica unless it is controlled by the Allied faction
-Operation Britannia Rising events (US liberation of occupied UK)
-scripted JAP invasion of the Philippines added
-Revamped the SHAEF event by adding historical HQ units for ENG and USA and an event that loads the right OOB for either the ENG or USA player
-soviet event OOBs spawn in Kuybyshev
-soviet AI rebels nerfed after fall of France
-possible fix for the North africa partisan bug
-check for the SCW triggered before KG 88 is removed
-sealion now has a no invasions option check
-Fixed event text for the British Shipbuilding Mission
-german - soviet commercial agreement typo fixed
-Singapore - the Guns are Useless event ... added event pic and description
-Rewrote the Evacuation of Dunkirk event.
-missing soviet province added to a snow region
-mud/ snow levels lowered slightly
-level 1 airbase added to Stendal provicne in Germany ( paratroop training base )
-Added user-provided province image for Oradea in Romania
-Added naval_base and air_base 1 to Lerwick and changed some positions on Lerwick to be more accurate to RL
-Added 2 folder to ai_tech_minister.lua
-defines fort bonus boosted
-Removed twin_engine_fighters from the default AI air ratio
-Fixed bug where USA/AI was building INF divisions with an extra (8th lol) brigade.
-Adjusted LUA to reflect new division_hq unit names.
-Added a custom build script for IRE ... just because! ![:D]( "Big Grin :D")
-Adjusted GAR builds for AI majors to be GAR+(ART|HVYART)+SUPPORTSx2 ("Garrison" Support Group)
-AI can nolong research the landingraft or assault ships
-Commented out garrison deployment tech in the ignore lists of the majors (as it was causing problems with trying to reinforce beachheads with GAR units).
-Soviet starting OOB reworked
-changed model to 4 for 29. PzG Div.
-Changed model Airborne Artillery for 22. LLD into historical model = 3
-soviet generals adjusted to have more high generals level available for 1936 OOB
-Corrected naming Unterseebootsflottille into U-boot Flottille
-removed most aux vessels from AI OOBs
-Changed motorcycle to armored car for armor HQ event OOBs
-Hv artillery added to some OOBs
-Improved the starting JAP island garrison OOB based in part on some historical findings.
-Brazilian Expeditionary Force revamp
-Updated the Thirty Divisions Plan OOB to actually make useful divisions for CHI
-Updated AI/Operation Torch OOB to use the historical counters for USA units
-Updated the Operation Husky OOB for the AI - it now uses the custom unit counters
-removed the "US Volunteer Brigade" from its OOB as it serves no purpose and causes issues.
-various inactive leaders removed from OOBs
-Minor historical naming and configuration fixes to Canadian OOB units
-Improved some generic inline militia OOBs
-Updated the AI Indo invasion OOBs for JAP to make them functional combat groups
-Fixed AFHQ spawn point to be historical, and also tweaked the ENG Torch OOB, which was horribly wrong.
-Added the missing light cruisers USS Richmond and USS Memphis to starting OOB for USA
-Added historical unit names and tweaks to Malta Garrison Force (ENG)
-Corrected standort II. Luftflotte to Braunschweig
-4th Composite Group now starts the game attached to the Philippine Department.
-USS Langley's CAG unit now starts the game based on the ship, rather than in Los Angeles.
-ENG 1st and 6th Airborne Divisions now load as a Division HQ formation for the player, and a full division for the AI
-Added 45. Infanterie-Division as unique for Germany
-The AST 1st Armoured Division is now properly reported as being deployed to Alexandria, rather than Sydney.
-The locations of several Gurkha OOB units for ENG are now properly reported when you choose the OOB
-AI/OOB tweaks for USA historical armored divisions.
-Fixed possible CTD involving ITA Expeditionary Force to Germany in 1941 (should have been 1942).
-Fixed possible CTD with Expeditionary Force leader from ITA to GER in 1941.
-Updated the sale of Lockheed Hudsons to the UK so it used the proper model
-div HQs cost increased, main brigades costs decreased
-speed of medium TD increased + extra Inf AT removed from airlanding Inf
-ss armor stats tweaked to be closer to normal armor
-stat changes for CAS/ medium bombers - less SA for CAS, less HA for meds
-width tweaks to inf bat, + officer cost adjustments
-special HQs no longer grant CA base
-Added pack artillery unit activation as a default tech for the majors. All of these countries had mountain artillery prior to the war.
-mot/arm supports no longer give CA base + IC cost reduced
-bombers IC cost / build times increased slightly
-SS Pz Rct art short name corrected
-Desert Rats short name corrected
-Soft attack reduced for Gurkhas
-Air attack increased for jets
-Armor piercing/ Armor value reduced for captured armor
-normal HQ Brigade no longer gives CA base for divisions
-mixed support changed to direct fire unit type
-elite litgh infantry/light infantry rebalanced - the elites less overpowered and more expensive
-SS AA brigade now comparable to normal AA
-Garrison Detachments will no longer get the same Division size increase/decrease with the Brigade Strength techs. They have been adjusted downward in accordance with the percentages used in other units.
-Brazil update - OOB, tech levels, province resources,ministers, generals
-some IC effiecency penalties for very large military - too much armed forces means less factory workers
-Removed twin_engine_fighters from the default AI air ratio.
-Removed inadvertent and tiny swastikas from some German model images.
-new loading screens added
-Added more generic JAP leaders
-combined arms values lowered
-SS panzers now buildable earlier if ahistorical ss option chosen
-pillboxes build faster
-tweaks to laws to prevent exploiting minimal training/ volunteer laws
-Changed "is_defender = yes" to "is_attacker = no" for trait gains.
-SPR leader ID conflict fix
-Changed German template for midwar and late war panzer division builds
-Weak Power strategic effect tweaked
-unqiue SNLF unit localisations added
-Soviet unique cavalry corps localisations fixed
-Event image of HMS Prince of Wales is now correct
-Japanese Heavy cruiser models fixed
-Japanese unique 3rd Infantry division counter fixed
-Germany can now build Pack artillery at start
-Unique pocket Battleships placed individually at game start
-Supercharger Tech added to jet Bombers
-Small armys industry tech reduced to 6 levels from 10
-railway artillery event refusal option spam fixed
-garrison of India OOB spam fixed
-various other localisations fixed
-missing country modifier for UK air bases fixed
-Tweaks to japanese starting techs
-division template div HQs fixed
Oh and if you don't want to ad this 100% for all minors you could just put button /event at the begining of the game for people to click it if they want you could even let them chose betwen 25-50-75-100-150% (i would do that by myself but i don't know how:/). I like challenge but i also like when game allows me to progress and i would take take this 100% bonus it still would make underpowered to main powers but then i could try to defeat all of them until 1968r. And if it would make game to easy to me then i would try maybe 75% or less ;)
Regards! MatSoren
Regards!
I see you point, and it might be a fun idea for players who want to expand as minors. In BICE 8 there will also be special research lab buildings which you can build in provinces and increase research.
now this is an intresting concept., research lab :) can we know when is the next release..? can't wait.
The Kampfgruppe Units and Giant Infrastructure Projects not active in my game (y play the last version of mod and of course of the game too).
I research "Giant Infrastructure Projects" techs and I have the bonus and penalty associated, but i have not events for construct nothing. With monumental architecture and broadcasting I have the bonus and penalty and the events.
The Kampfgruppe Units... I dont know even as research that units.
I tested with Nacionalist China, Japan, German and Spain.
And nothing :/
Is there something I'm doing wrong?
you need to have chosen long term investment option in the yearly economic event ( not the short term option)
Kampgruppes are historical event only and are only available for Germany, and a few events for the USA and UK where those nations had historical combat groups. The first Kampgruppes for Germany will be the return of KG 88 from the Spanish civil war, and KG Kempf just prior to the invasion of Poland. The Kampgruppes are also only temporary battle formations. They will last about 6 months ingame ( sometimes more if you are lucky). Once that 6 months is up they will be usually be removed unless they are in a battle. China, Japan and other nations don't have kampfgruppes.
aaaaa ok, thanks for the reply. I thought they were normal brigades could build with appropriate technology xD.
Good mod buy the way.
Hello, great mod btw gave me lots of enjoyment. I have one major problem though my checksum changes during gameplay. Fresh install SOXD, when I resign it shows TOXD. This the game as well. Various events do not happen such as the annexation events for Germany. The event fires but nothing happens. Thanks for looking
Checksum will change its first letter when you resign/reload to prevent multiplayer cheating.
the annexation events work fine for Germany ( guessing you mean anthluss/ Czech ?) provided you meet the requirements.
Later Germany annexed the Czech and austria after their event fired so it is all good. Thanks for replying
my game(with mod) runs fine but does the mod run on "Their Finest Hour"? I can't seem to find the scenarios from TFH when I run BlackICE.
Yep mod works fine on tfh,you can only play with the '36 scenario
Hi, first I want to say that I'm enjoing the mod a lot, amazing job.
That said I don't know if it's a bug or a mistake by my side but playing as Republican Spain (with Toledo controlled) the research of the specialized HQ's doesn't trigger the events for the actual formation of the units as it happens with Germany or UK.
Thanks for your job guys.
the special HQ OOBs have only been made for the major nations. Its a lot of work to set them up as they need to be made unique events for each nation. If other nations are made, it will be the more important minors. Republican spain will probably need someone else with time and dedication to set them up. However you still gain a bonus from each level of tech so the research isn't a total waste.
Does hungary count as a more important minor?i hope :3,until then there is gyorshadtest
Panzeroo I'm having some serious trouble i do not know what i have don't wrong but i can not even load the games main menu.
I've tried uninstalling and reinstalling the mod multiple times yeh the main game still works. When i load your mod up it takes ages to get throught some of the loading screens and then just crashes after about 3-4 minutes and never reaches the main menu and i dont know where to get the current checksum i cant seem to find it in the forums.
so if you could maybe suggest some better ideas on what i should do i will continue to try to play vanilla.
are you using podcat's TFH exe ?
for some reason i keep getting error 404 so no i can only guess thats what is wrong
and every time i click your link it says i dont have permission to access it. even though i do have a paradox account
the link belongs to paradox as the TFH exe is their product. You need to register your copy of TFH expansion on their forum in order to access the modified TFH exe.
okay so i have downloaded everything except for the 7.54cache files simply because i keep getting network errors.
though i think the main problem is that my laptop is so old it cant handle the mod so im going to move the game over to my actual computer so i will get back to you if everything is okay and dandy.
I have a problem with invasion when i play as Germany. I try to invade Norway and it show blue line but army isn't going forward. And for example in UK invasion work. I don't know why this happened. Can anyone help me please?
you need to use auxiliary vessels ( barges/ small ships) for sea invasions or research and build landingcraft. Ocean liners cannot do sea invasions, they are used to transport troops between ports only. The auxiliary vessels are available by OOB event when your nation first goes to war and once a year thereafter.
panzeroo when can we expext da next BICE 8 Mod...??
should be within a couple of days.
oh...! Great, ;)
my game stop working allways at 23:00 5.august 1940 - 00:00 6.august 1940 when i play as Germany
what checksum do you have ? There are no other reported issues with this date.
my checksum is SOXD. and sorry the day was 5.september not august
there are no other reports of a CTD on this date/ time period. Does anything big happen around this time ? Fall of france and Vichy for example ?
capturing channel island event or what it was happened litle bit earlier
where do i put the 7.54 cache files?
navigate to user/documents/paradox/hoi3/blackice/map. Place the cache in the map folder
okay got the mod to work on my better computer and its awesome thanks for all your hard work 10/10
So for some reason when i got done invading the British and took London after awhile i got the option for the British SS Division but when i got them i noticed that the Infantry and Stug section were messed up as in the name of of it was fine but it didn't show the Strength nor the organization of it and it didn't show any picture of the Infantry and Stug also when i tryed to split them to use the units that did work (like the Artie) my game crashed. now it ain't game breaking for me since i have 4 or 5 Corps filled with SS and more scattered in Germany but i would like to have some Brits involved if possible
are you using a submod ? Don't recall any British SS divisions in BICE.
Oh i am using the Third Reich events submod but i thought the British SS were apart of BICE (sorry for that)
Nice mod, but what I hate about mods like this you have to go on a treasure hunt through your computer. Then you must put the files up your arse and all over the place and you then start dancing with a folder....
Like I said good mod....
First off as this is my first post, thank you to the whole team for an outstanding mod that improved on the already great Hearts of Iron 3 at least 100x over. However, I seem to be having issues with with crashes when the game saves. Whenever the game does crash (unless something got f'ed up and I need to reinstall Hoi3/BIce) its the result of an autosave or save and the saved game file shows with the Black Ice country logo and has January 0 or something as the date in place of the save it was supposed to do, is there any way to fix this? It occurred far less often when I was able to run the podcat.exe in Windows XP SP4 compat but alas with the upgrade to windows 10 this is no longer feasible. specs - win10 x64 i-5-4590k @ 3.5Ghz nvidia GTX 970's 8gb hard drive ram + 4 virtual. my checksum is also correct based on replies you gave to others with other issues
I should mention this problem occurs FAR more often when playing as any country aside from Germany, and I also am currently using the Third Reich Events mod even though this problem has existed long long before I started using it and throughout every version of BIce I've played on 4 different PC's since 2012 :/
unfortunately there is nothing we can do about it in terms of modding. The problem is with each players computer and how it creates the logs/ possibly map cache. Some people have the issues, others don't. Its not so much related to the power of your computer so much as the operating system. HOI# is an old game engine and not entirely optimised for new operating systems. BICE pushes the engine to the limits and makes the problem worse. There are a few things you might be able todo. In user/documents there is a Black ICE folder which has savegames/ settings etc. It also has the logs and map cache. Logs are created fresh each time the game loads. The map cache the first time the mod loads. You can delete the logs folder before starting the mod and let it create a fresh one. You could even try deleting the map cache. Also keep save game files to a minimum in the save game folder.Beyond that its a case of trial and error to see what can be done on your computer ( setting all the game exes to admin, XP compat mode etc). Most people find a solution.
Yeah unfortunately thats what I've been doing, and I've already reset my cache in the docs 5x this week and earlier today reinstalled Hoi3/BIce from scratch and completely deleted the Hearts of Iron 3 folder in /documents/paradox interactive :| it took until October '36 for the first AutoSave crash even with this (i like autosave on cause its far worse when it ISNT on and then you save and go back months instead of days) .. as I said the issue was minimized with this system using windows XP SP4 for all the exe's (namely podcats was the one that fixed it) before, but with Windows 10 XP compatability pack is no longer accessible and I'm at a loss... It's a testament to your mod tho that I've been seriously considering reverting to Windows 8 just to be able to play Black Ice ^^
its been a week since u last told abt da next patch BICE 8; very early waiting till da release, anyways Can we know da EXACT release date or atleast da closest date...?? pazeroo.
I will upload it to ModDB tonight and then it just has to clear the admins.
thanks a lot mate, finally....!!
Hi panzeroo, I found a very puzzling condition when playing SOV. I defeated japan and made JAP as a puppet via the option "puppet" or "install communism". Everything goes well and Japan will be a normal puppet initially, but Japan will be at war with me shortly. Then comes the issue: JCP is or will be the rulling party, Japan is a puppet of SOV, troops on the territory of JAP will recieve supplies from Tokyo, but all my military units will occupy land from JAP.
I don't know if this "issue" was set as this or it is a bug. Thank you.
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I am the Grofaz I conquered the world on Grofaz levels. You should have a sturm artillerie event. Manstein developed that in 1938. Invasion of Turkey realistically should lead to war with soviets (game is easily won when turkey is conquered leading my axis armies to china and attacking Russia on 5 fronts) but turkey should be allowed to join axis without war. Food should be a natural resource like oil, it is the most important war material and exposed on the map. Supply routes and depots should be established and discovered with espionage making espionage a much larger aspect of the game. Build railroads, railroads should be your land supply and should be visible on the map. Control of railroads meant victory or defeat in WW2. These small adjustments would be great. Just a thought. To conquer Russia I had to rely on Russian supply after I had taken the territory pushing my advance just to get supply. I did I am the Grofaz.
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Hey Panzeroo great advice man thanks one question you mentioned Podcasts TFH exe does not work with 32 bit systems unless modified..how would i go about doing that? perhaps i missed it somewhere in the thread..any help would be awesom, just like MrEric4012 my game crashes when i get to loading database II and says "unknown exception".