The Bugs & Errors section Thread - Path To Victory mod for Homeworld 2

If anything went wrong, your game crashed or you found something I forgot to fix, this is the place to report it.

If you get a crash, posting your HW2.log can be helpful in identifying exactly what went wrong.

marker points of hgn_combatbase & kad_destroyer_real are wrong.
sorry, im not good at english.

I assume you mean the damage markers etc.?

Thanks, I forgot about that.

Edited by: mololu

after installing, how do i open it. am i suppose to save it some were? im not really familiar on how to do these things.

you will need a shortcut (the thing on your desktop) to start the game over. Copy the existing Homeworld 2 one, then right click and go to properties. In the line Target there should be comething like C:\Program Files\Sierra\Homeworld2 blablabla. At the end of that add -mod PTV005.big.

Is there a reason why I am getting '$2080 <--sybmols instead of true name ,or type of ship in the game? The new ships are just described as numbers and symbols with a $ sign on them.

Several things:

1) Are you using mac?

2) What language of HW2 do you have?

3) Did you copy the folder 'locale' into your HW2 Data directory?

As soon as I attempt to start TPOV .005 via the -mod PTV005.big method, my copmuter completely crashes. I mean, the CD-drive won't even respond (open), that bad.

I have not updated Homeworld 2 to the official 1.05(?) update.
I did doublecheck that I had installed the correct files in the correct folder.
Homeworld 2 minus TPOV works fine.
No error bars or messages appear before or after.

System:
Windows XP Home Edition, Service Pack 3 (32 bit)
NVIDIA GeForce 7600 GT
NVIDIA(R) nForce(TM) Audio
Not sure how to find out what else.

Please help. I very much would love to be able to use this mod.

- You need HW v1.1 if you want to play this mod (or any mod really)

Apart from that I can't think of any reason this should happen. Try DLing v1.1 and if this still occurs - then I don't know what the issue is.

With the .006, all ships appears black or luminescent and without lights when I zoom on it. Like that : A.imageshack.us
Tell me it's fixable. It's very disturbing ...

What the hell?!

I've never seen that happen before and it doesn't happen to me :/

Two questions
1) what GFX card are you using?
2) what ingame settings are you using?

I really hope I can help you fix that but I've never seen it before so it's gonna be a bit of a bumpy road of guesswork.

It never happend either.

So
1) ATI Radeon HD 2600 Pro 256Mo
2) settings for FX, lighting, shadows, ... are maximized

I hope it can help.

By the way, can you send me the "buildresearch.ucs" file ? I still have the $1102 problem but it helps me to understand the game. Thanks.

Odd, I packed the locale into the big file so that shouldn't be happening unless you have a non-english version of HW2 in which case... oh damn, I forgot all about the language pack I wanted to release. I can send you the file as soon as I'm home or you can unpack the big direcly if you know how.

But back to the other issue:

ATI has had some issues with HW2 if I remember correctly... maxed settings.
Okay, shouldn't be an issue there either. Gaah, I really have no clue why this would happen unless it's a HW2 & ATI driver issue (again). Lemme...

Maybe this will help: Forums.relicnews.com
Otherwise if that doens't help the relic news forums have a large collection of threads: Forums.relicnews.com about all sorts of issues. Possibly posting there will get you more results than from me (as I can't recreate the error, it's kinda hard to find a solution).

Don't worry, it's fixed.
It was the "-fragment_program 0" in the shorcut that caused it.
I found that because the problem also appeared in the .005 and the only change from before was the addition of "-luatrace -fragment_program 0 -hardwarecursor". I tested by removing them one by one and the problem disappeared with "-fragment_program 0".

For $xxxx problem is because I have a Mac. And because of that, I can't unpack the big.

Ah damnit. Sure, I'll send you the ucs file ASAP.

And I was hoping the naming problem would be solved by putting the locale in the big aw damn... I'm really sorry bout that :/

But at least the graphics issue is solved xD

It's a mysterious problem, it's not your fault.
But don't forget to send me the file