Intruder7011 Posted April 24, 2012 Posted April 24, 2012 DL SF2 Vietnam, Europe and Israel last night, installed and have played some. Now I am starting to get the mods I want and I started off with the Vietnam Expanison pack, DL the newest verison, and the older one parts 1-4. I extraced all the files, placed them and overrided them in the C/username/savedgames/thirdwire/SFV and nothing was different when I lunched the game. I also tried creating a folder in the saved games and placed all the files there and nothing either. I am assuming since I DL last night the game is up to date patch wise... this is the first mod im installing so maybe im missing a step? Any help would be great! Thanks Quote
+MigBuster Posted April 24, 2012 Posted April 24, 2012 What mod did you download? - because you are probably sticking the files in the wrong places basically Quote
Intruder7011 Posted April 24, 2012 Author Posted April 24, 2012 I DL these ones: http://combatace.com/files/file/10466-sf2v-air-ground-war-expansion-pack-v20-jan-2012-update/ That one said I need the other four parts from the previous SFV expansion pack found on that same link, with the hyperlinks to Parts 1-4 I DL all five, unziped them and moved them into what I said in the previous post, and over rid things when asked to. Quote
+eburger68 Posted April 24, 2012 Posted April 24, 2012 Inruder7011: If you're not seeing anything differnet -- no new aircraft, etc. -- then you're probably installing the files incorrectly. The most common error is that people grab the To_Mod_Folder folder and simply drop that in their Mods folder. The game will never see the files if you do that. Instead, grab the CONTENTS out of To_Mod_Folder and move those to your Mods folder. the same holds true for the other major folders within the archives you downloaded. Eric Howes Quote
Intruder7011 Posted April 24, 2012 Author Posted April 24, 2012 Inruder7011: If you're not seeing anything differnet -- no new aircraft, etc. -- then you're probably installing the files incorrectly. The most common error is that people grab the To_Mod_Folder folder and simply drop that in their Mods folder. The game will never see the files if you do that. Instead, grab the CONTENTS out of To_Mod_Folder and move those to your Mods folder. the same holds true for the other major folders within the archives you downloaded. Eric Howes What I did was after winzip unzipped them all, I just selected the first one, scrolled down to the last one, shift select so I grabbed all of them... like thousands and thousands... and placed into the C/username/thirdwire/savedgames/SFV. I read about the "what is the mod folder" in the knowledge base and it said you dont create one, and when you run the game it makes one. So I ran the game, 'accepted' some missions, quit and tried again.. Nothing. I also made another folder to go in there to organize all the files, and that also did not work. Am I dropping them into a wrong location? I just dont know where else to put them.. and if it asked for permission to override, I figured it was replacing the old files... I guess I can try again? any other ideas. Quote
malibu43 Posted April 24, 2012 Posted April 24, 2012 What I did was after winzip unzipped them all, I just selected the first one, scrolled down to the last one, shift select so I grabbed all of them... like thousands and thousands... and placed into the C/username/thirdwire/savedgames/SFV. I read about the "what is the mod folder" in the knowledge base and it said you dont create one, and when you run the game it makes one. So I ran the game, 'accepted' some missions, quit and tried again.. Nothing. I also made another folder to go in there to organize all the files, and that also did not work. Am I dropping them into a wrong location? I just dont know where else to put them.. and if it asked for permission to override, I figured it was replacing the old files... I guess I can try again? any other ideas. That sounds like winzip isn't maintaining the folder structures when it extracts. You should see a few folders when you open the archives. Inside those folders should should be other folders and files, etc... If you're seeing just a list of thousands of files, you need to change a setting in your extraction utility. There is a setting in winzip (I think, I only use winrar) that you need to set to maintain folder structures during extraction. Try that. And then make sure to install everything in order. Parts 1-4, then the last update. Quote
+SupGen Posted April 24, 2012 Posted April 24, 2012 7Zip is easiest/best. Right click on the Zipped folder, and left click Extract to...(name of mod), everything is in perfect folder setup, and it's free. Quote
Intruder7011 Posted April 24, 2012 Author Posted April 24, 2012 Thanks, I just DL 7zip and tried there, and am just getting errors now. I choose to unzip, then choose the SF2 folder as the destination, but after unzipping it says 2683 files, 2683 errors... should I just delete everything and try again? Quote
Intruder7011 Posted April 25, 2012 Author Posted April 25, 2012 (edited) So here is what I did, nothing has changed. DL 7zip, cleared everything I have done. Took each part, in order, Parts 1-4 then the Jan2012 update. Choose the file, hit extract and when it promted me a location to ectract to, I typed C:\Users\Chris\Saved Games\ThirdWire\StrikeFighters2 Vietnam After that I opened that file up, and the following files (1_All_Patch_levels, 2_Dec2009_patch_level, 3_may2011_patch_level, 4_ExpPack2, For_dec2009, For_SF2I snd the To_Mod_Folder) were there along with the normal files pilot data, objects controls, etc that were there before i extracted. I played the game and nothing. So then I grabbed all the new folders and placed them into the To_Mod_Folder, and got the same result. Im sure I am missing an easy step or something, this is the first mod I am doing so all this is a foreign language to me. Edited April 25, 2012 by Intruder7011 Quote
Intruder7011 Posted April 25, 2012 Author Posted April 25, 2012 Got it,i just , moved all the things in the to mod folder into the strike fighters 2 main and it seems like it worked, i saw the new planes in the mission screen. Flew around the ka62. Great work eburger, i already can tell the game just got taken to another level with just this mod. Thanks for the help guys Quote
Intruder7011 Posted April 25, 2012 Author Posted April 25, 2012 one\last thing im noticing, A) no helicopters... and B) on a general note for mods, some dont have a read me file, so whats the easiest way to figure out where to put them, for example, the VA-128 Golden Intruders mod... where does something like that go Quote
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