WoV 2006 Terrain Problem

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Hi All:

 

I'm finishing up what will be released as the WOV Air & Ground Expansion Pack. The default install for this package will be for WoV 2008, but a set of WoV 2006 specific files will be included for those wanting to install to the older version. Everything tests fine in WoV 2008. Most everything also tests fine with WoV with one glaring exception: the South Vietnam terrain.

 

No matter what I try, WoV 2006 simply will not accept that terrain in addition to the default North Vietnam (VietnamSEA) terrain. Every mission I try with the South Vietnam terrain ends in a CTD about 20-30% into the loading screen. Now, if I install the South Vietnam terrain alone as the default VietnamSEA terrain, it works fine. It's only when installed as a second terrain that the CTDs occur.

 

Things I've tried (all with no success):

 

- renaming all terrain-specific INI files to SouthVietnam*.ini

- doing the above, plus copying over VietnamSEA.CAT to the \SouthVietnam folder as SouthVietnam.CAT

- re-packing the VietnamSEA.CAT with the re-named SouthVietnam*.ini as SouthVietnam.CAT

 

For all of the above, I am making the necessary edits to SouthVietnam.ini to point to the correct files.

 

Nothing works. As things stand, players can fly the North Vietnam or the South Vietnam terrain, but only if one is installed to the Terrain folder or if they are installed to separate installs of WoV 2006.

 

Anyone else run into this kind of behavior before with WoV 2006? Any idea what's causing it or how to alleviate it?

 

Thanks,

 

Eric L. Howes

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Folks:

 

I figured out the problem. The .TFD and .HFD files needed to be renamed to match the terrain name. Once I did that, everything worked peachy.

 

It is curious that WoV 2006 needed those files re-named, yet WoV 2008 and SF2V did not.

 

Eric L. Howes