BLACK I.C.E. is an extensive mod of HOI3 under development by Panzeroo and many other members of the Hearts Of Iron 3 forum.
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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 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 see finish. Click on finish.
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when i saving game crashed. what should i do to save without errors?
it happend sometimes
90% of the time the way to fix this is by deleting the blackice logs folder in user/documents ( make sure its blackice and not vanilla)
If that doesnt fix it, there is a thread on the paradox hoi3 blackice forum where people have posted their various fixes for save game crashes. It tends to vary for each person depending on their system, so what works for one person doesnt work for another. About half the players have the save game crash problem. No one on the dev team has the issue. So its up to you to find the solution.
this is for real the best mod for hoi3 ive ever played and thnx but there are still some bugs:
1.beeing persian(iran) ruler there is a region called "birjand" which is impassable at the beginning and therefor impossible recieving the raw material installed there. but even after building the infrastructure up to lvl 10 the terrain becomes indeed passable but the raw material there remains still undismantlable becuse of the -1000% penalty which still remains there.
2. persia wasnt a colonie at anytime therefore the only opportunity of building colonialinfantrie and cavalry and...with indian and african coat of arms for that country isnt nice
further i love the opportunity of upgrading existing ressources but it would be perfect if you could establishing ressources in empty regions
i would be grateful for help or bugfixes for this
thx
I will increase the infra of that province now thanks for that ( not many people play as Iran/ report bugs :) )
colonial infantry is a fairly generic unit which represents the non- European/ eastern type units. We tried to use a fairly universal/ generic GFX model for the unit. Obviously this isn't really country specific for some nations. But these units do have certain terrain specific advantages which should benefit the nations which can build them. Its a fair amount of work to make specific nation GFX models and we tend to rely on players who have an interest in minor nations to send us the files for those nations. In other words unless lots of people play as Iran/ or someone sends us some GFX files its unlikely to be a priority for us at this stage.
The resource buildings do require the actual resource. It wouldn't make sense to be able to gain extra resources in a province without the resource existing already. It would also leave the buildings open to player exploits.
thank you!
thank you pazeroo!
by the way im not sure but i think there are also some other little bugs
like the ministry event, where you dont recieve the result message of your decision and maybe also a bug in the heavy industry event. In the manuals of this mod its told that you must have at least 7 ic in a province before beeing able to build a heavy industry capacity by manufacture event. but even by a province ic of 10 ic you have only the choice of building manufacture ic for supply.
if it is possible i would be grateful for an editor for this mod, where i could change little things like that on my own, because its understandable that not many people play as iran and i cant certainly expect you to reedit that country...
thx
what is the minisrty event ? If the choices are not showing in the event its likley to be a tooltip limitation. We can't add in new tooltips if they are missing from the vanilla game ( and some things are missing/ never worked correctly in HOI3)
The HIC requires a province of at least 7 IC and 150 IC total. To build more you need more provinces with more then 7 IC and more total IC. Having 5 provinces with 10 IC and 650+ total IC should see you gain all 5 HIC buildings.
There is no editor for HOI3 or this mod. Everything has to be worked on by hand and then trial and error to see what works.
ok i see, ty. if you are interestet in reports of all little bugs i found for iran, pls tell me. otherwise i can understand ;)
one other bug is the leck of payment by other nations for production licences offerd by iran.
thx
bug reports are always useful. How do you mean "lack of payment" ? The production licence game mechanic isn't really something which BICE can change. It works the same way as it does in vanilla.
Thank you for making an amazing game even better!! any plans on Hoi4?
they all only pay 31 $ for any prodution licences at any time..
there are also some texture and value bugs, which i think are also a matter of the main game
not immediately sure how the game calculates the production licence costs. But it doesn't seem to be something we can directly mod.
Whenever I save a new game, it usually loads fine. However, occasionally the file will get corrupted. I will still be able to play that file, but all of my units disappear and all progress on production and technology is erased. I go to the date that I saved it at, but everything is blank (I'm pretty sure that all units in all countries disappear). Is anyone else experiencing this? Also, I can't get research started on certain armored topics.
HOI3 has a long history of save game corruptions. Save often with manual saves to try and avoid the issue.
Which nation are you playing and What armor topics can't you research ?
It has happened with every country that I've played with on this mod. I can't research AFV Tracks and Suspension and Gasoline Engine even though both are available for research. I will double click on them, or even click "Start Research", but they won't add to the que no matter what. There could be more in the tree, but I haven't been able to progress to that point yet.
you should have a starting event trigger where your nation can choose the engine type (gasoline or diesel ) / armor type (welded or cast) heavy airframe or light airframe. This directs your nation down a certain path.
I have used this event every time. I actually managed to get both of them into the research que and they both completed one cycle, but it didn't register my level as advancing and now it's back to it not researching at all. I can't build infantry support tanks because I don't have the AFV Suspension tech. However, when I hover over Light Armor, it says that AFV Suspension (NoFolder) is researched. AFV Suspension (Armour) for Infantry Tank is not green.
sounds like you have an install problem. If you are getting No folder flags its a sure sign you have a bad install. Delete the blackice folder in TFH/mods. delete the mod launcher in the main directory and reinstall.
I was looking through all of my save files for this version, and I noticed that all technology in each file was reset to zero. I messed around with static modifiers, is that affecting anything? I did a test run with Iran, and the same thing happened. Immediately after saving, I quit Black Ice and went to the save file and everything was reset to zero (I did instant research to make quick progress so I could see if it would reset from a high level again). So far, it has happened to Japan, Turkey, and Iran. However, those are the only three countries I've played as with this version.
if you mess about with some game modifiers between saves then yes, it's possible you broke the save file.
You can try deleting the logs folder in user/documents/ blackice. This is recreated each time you load up the game and can cause problems if you make changes between saves.
Thanks for all your help. Those two issues have been solved with a reinstall. I'm also doing monthly autosave, so that might make a difference.
The next thing I've run into is that my game crashes every time the Spanish Civil War ends. Is this an install issue again?
what checksum do you have ? There are no reports of a crash when the SCW ends
It seems to have been resolved. No idea what was causing it. This is the only issue I've had since re-installing the game.
Also, does the default 8.4 version allow for the creation of West and East Germany?
i recently hava a permanent crash down problem after loading any saved game in the year 1947 or even a bit earlier and the crash down happens just by scrollig the map, especially over the soviets. deleting the log file, reintallation after deleting the mod in tfh file and cleaning up the pc cache didnt help.. is there an other cache file which is getting full with time or is it the weak processor or ram or a bug? because starting a new game dosnt crash down! i have an intel core i3-2370M cpu @ 2x2.40 ghz with 4GB ram....
after crashing down the game closes and i get the message that tfh.exe dosnt work anymore
4Gb is cutting it fine. You can try running in windowed mode, turning off any background programmes which might be using system memory. I have found that window mode makes a very significant difference to game stability by reducing system memory usage. Even so that 4Gb might not be enough.
are u gonna release BI for HOI 4?
Great mod, do yall have plans for new HoI?
yes, we have began working on HOI IV
Where is the 8.5 version? It was released in January apparently, why isn't it on here?
we will release 8.53 soon.
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Im having tech tree issues, technologies are on top of each other and i have on_completion tech in upper left corner of my screen
you have an install conflict. Make sure you manually delete the Blackice folder in TFH/mods and the mod launcher, then reinstall.
Hi, "-650 fuel traded away" as game says, but I have no fuel trade in the production tab. Maybe I may accept some fuel aggreements but none of them seem on trades section. And I run out of fuel as USA, I don't want to cheat, can you help me with this?
Here is my save game file:https://www.solidfiles.com/v/72yqqB6RLnANX
I have reserached fuel techs so I have good amount of fuel again but there is still 650 fuel traded away, and I think game bugged. Ofc it's not such a big bug.
do you have friendly nations which have units on land you control/or in ports/ airbases you control ? These will use your fuel even if they are simply moving through your land.
Is there a way to play this on a 1366x768 monitor? I cant seem to find any widescreen or lowres patches for version 8+
Maybe add this to faq ,seems like a pretty important question to me. Unless Im stupid and missed something really oblivious.
Hi, i got a proble when load the game, [unknown problem when loading files] or something like that when load the Data files II ,... the I really appreciate to someone send me the files from [Documents\Paradox Interactive\Hearts of Iron III\BlackICE] and i will try to launch the game again,... if it doesn't work I assume that the proble is my pc, ... I am sorry for my bad english
what are your system specs ? How much ram do you have / is it a 32bit or 64bit system ? Do you have podcat's TFh exe ? The files in Documents\Paradox Interactive\Hearts of Iron III\BlackICE are created by your computer when you successfully load the game.
Ok, I want to try this mod, but there seems to be an issue with the download. First, Smartscreen denies it for being dangerous. When I override the filter and download it, it has no extension (like .exe or .zip) so I can't DO anything with the file. Any ideas?
Fixed it. I just had to add the .exe extension manually. And heeere weee GO!
hi, my game crash when i try to save
90% of the time the way to fix this is by deleting the blackice logs folder in user/documents ( make sure its blackice and not vanilla)
If that doesnt fix it, there is a thread on the paradox hoi3 blackice forum where people have posted their various fixes for save game crashes. It tends to vary for each person depending on their system, so what works for one person doesnt work for another. About half the players have the save game crash problem. No one on the dev team has the issue. So its up to you to find the solution.
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Greetings developers of BI mod. I really appreciate your work. Your mod is great and to be honest better than the whole HoI IV game. I really love it. But I think you completely underestimated the Czechoslovakia. Czechoslovakia in 40's had 5th best army in the world. Infantry weapons and small arms were one of the best on the market (used by China and still appreciated by them till nowadays, also those small arms were used while defeating France in 1940) Light and medium tank constructions were even better than early German tanks in 1938. Also tactics of fight were also very good and efficient. And It just hurts me to see that Czechoslovakia in BI mod is slightly better in technologies than countries in South America. I am not saying that Czechoslovakia would defeat Germany, I say it would not be same quick slaughter, after hours of playing, as the Poland-German war. Czechoslovakia had a great part in history of 20th century and I would be really pleased if you would take a better look on it and maybe consider some rework of Czechoslovakia. Thank you very much for any kind of answer and good luck with next develop with your mod.
i wanna play this mod so much....but it crashes in the loading screen when loading databases
Two problems with this.
1. My german infantry units looked wrapped like the sprite models look disfigurement.
2. when I got to like 1939 the game would crash whenever I tried to save
1. sprites are not supported in BICE. There is a sprites sub mod for BICE available on the paradox HOI3 BICE mod forum.
2. If you are having save game crashes...
"90% of the time the way to fix this is by deleting the blackice logs folder in user/documents ( make sure its blackice and not vanilla)
If that doesnt fix it, there is a thread on the paradox hoi3 blackice forum where people have posted their various fixes for save game crashes. It tends to vary for each person depending on their system, so what works for one person doesnt work for another. About half the players have the save game crash problem. No one on the dev team has the issue. So its up to you to find the solution."
Whats the mod called exactly?.
Black ICE Sprite Project by Aleksi_I - Forum.paradoxplaza.com