Save Problem with DCG

[zakattack111]

I absolutely love DCG but i have a serious problem with saving

it just wont let me ever since ive installed it

everytime i click the save or load button the screen just closes
and it does not let em save or load

this white box appears with all sorts of numbers and letters
that make no sense and its preventing me from enjoying the dynamic
campaign generator properly

any help would be massively appreciated

thanks xxx

[Zeke Wolff]

Please follow the instructions in this "step-by-step guide" that I wrote several months ago. In your case, since you´ve got the main stuff to work, I think that you can start reading from #3 in the guide.

And you have installed all the three extra programs that is needed (Visual #J, XNA and NET)?

If you have done the above, and it still doesn´t work, then please read the "step-by-step" instruction that I´ve provided in this message and see if that helps you.

1) The first thing you need to do, is to download Visual #J, .NET and .XNA. These are all available for download at Microsofts homepage for free.

(Link to .NET file --- http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...displaylang=en
Windows 64-bit users use this link instead --- http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...displaylang=en )

(Link to XNA --- http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...displaylang=en )

(Link to Visual #J --- http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...displaylang=en
Windows 64-bit users use this link instead --- http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...displaylang=en )

These 3 files is a "must have" to get the mod to work.

2) Create a "mods" folder in your Men of War folder. Unpack the Campaign archive and then drag and drop the folder named "Campaign" into your Mods folder.

3) Go to your profile folder for men of war and create a new folder named "Result". ( The result should look like this ---> Documents/My Games/Men of War/Profile/Your Profile Name/Save/Result)

4) Start the file named Campaign.exe. If you have done it correct so far, a window will appear with some options. At the option "Save Folder" you enter the correct path to your earlier created "Result" folder (on my PC with Swedish settings the path look like this ---> C:\Users\Zeke Wolff\Documents\My Games\men of war\profiles\Zeke Wolff\save\result. The "Zeke Wolff" should of course be replaced with your own profile name.

5) Click on done and in the next window, click on Quit (This step can be skipped, but it will save you from having to re-write the save path if the next step goes wrong).

6) Start up the campaign.exe again. Click on settings and then click on "Extract All Maps". Wait until it says "Done". Click on the button named "Done".

7) Click on "Start a new Campaign". Chose your Player Nation (German, USSR, UK, USA). Chose your theatre of War (which ones is available depends on which nation you picked. USSR for example cant pick North Afrika etc). Then chose which enemy nation you want to fight against (Germany can pick any enemy nation, USSR, US and UK can only pick Germany).

8.) Click on Start a New Campaign. A new window will appear. Here you buy your units. You can only start the campaign with 3 units, but you can capture enemy units and keep them for as long as you want. When you have bought your units, click "Done".

9) If everything has been done correctly so far, a new window will appear with images of different minimaps. Depending on which nation you picked to fight as, different colored rectangles appears on some of them (named 1st, 2nd, 3rd etc). If you play as USSR, the red rectangles depicts your unit and some allied units (your unit is always named 1st and has the word "PLAYER" written under it). If you want to attack the enemy, move these rectangles to any nearby enemy held minimap (the ones held by USSR has a USSR flag over them, and the ones held by the Germans (the enemy in this case) as a German flag over them). When you have made your decisions, click "Done".

10) A new window will appear. Here you places your troops on the actual map, ie where each one will start. You can only place them within the blue colored rectangle. When you are happy with your decisions, click "Done". You will now hear a "Tada!!" sound and the main Dynamic Campaign Generator (DCG) window will appear. Do not close this window down. It must be kept running as long as you play the mod.

11) Start up Men of War. Go to Mods and activate "Campaign". Then click on Single Player and then Select Mission and then... Dynamic Campaign Generator. Chose which difficulty you want to play on (I recommend to play on Hard since the AI is too easy to defeat otherwise). Then click on Dynamic Campaign Generator Mission. The mission will start to load and then after a while it will be ready to be played. Click space or just click the left mouse button to start the battle. You will see your units, and a very short mission debriefing. In the upper right corner of the screen, click on "Continue".

12) Play the battle.

13) When you have won (or decided that you better have to retreat), save the battle as Result. If you use any other name to save, only your current game progress will be saved. Only when it is saved as Result will the mod engine understand that the battle is really over.

14) After saving the game as Result, just click anywhere on the screen, and you will automatically be taken back to the DCG buy/sell window. Now you can sell (disband) any captured units etc.

15) To play the next battle, do the above all over again, ie hit done, pick map to fight on, place your units etc. After clicking Done after placing your units, you will automatically be taken back to the game Men of War. Go to Options and chose "Restart". This process will start the next battle.

16) Continue the above process as long as you wish.

17) When you have managed to capture the enemy base map (marked with a black and white circle (just like your own base map)), you´ve won a whole operation and will be rewarded by being able to command an extra unit (ie 4 units after the first won operation up to a maximum of 7 units).

If you want to play with the extra addons for DCG (Map Pack, Unit Pack and Infantry Pack) all you need to do is to drag and drop these extra addons into the mods folder and let them overwrite anything they ask to overwrite). Maps, new vehicles, and new infantry units will then be available randomly.

By doing what I´ve described, DCG should work... if it still doesnt, then there is some other error. Please make sure in that case that you do not have more than one copy of MoW installed and also please post a screenshot of your DCG settings (the paths) --- faulty paths happens to be the cause of an error in more than 90% of the cases.


~Zeke.

[martinapsid]

hi zeke iam running vista game runs fine but i can not get the resource screen to come up after save iam using result as folder name in c:\users\martins computer\documents\my\games\menofwar\profiles\mart in\save\result ive put the game its self into c:\games help please

[Zeke Wolff]

Did you leave the campaign.exe running when you played? The .exe must always be left running as long as you are playing the mod, just click on the "Done" buttons after doing your choices, and then start up MoW. Please read thru step 10 in the "tutorial" that is written two posts above.

If you were running dcg in the background, and it still doesnt show up when saving as result, just use ALT+TAB to get back to your desktop and there you will see the main menu of DCG (resource screen).

~Zeke.

[martinapsid]

thanks zeke not running program in background all fixed now

[Zeke Wolff]

Glad to hear that you got it sorted out. Have fun!

~Zeke.

[KnightFandragon]

I seriously hate random errors........yet I find yet another one....So, after not playing this DCG awhile I decided id go back to it. it is fun and pretty awesome. Anyway, Suddenly saving as Result is not minimizing and sending me to the Campaign screen like it used to..I need a referesher course or something on how to save this thing? I began a new Campaign just like before, bought my units, deployed them, loaded up MoW and started it via the DCG icon in the select new game screen or w/e its called. I commenced to stomp all over the Yankee's defending the town, I got the mission completed. Checked my units for any surprises, didnt find any, so I his esc, save, Result......then....nothing..........That seems to be just what I did before when it worked.............Is there a new version of this mod and it made the previous versions not work or something?

[vampzzz]

Sorry, iv'e tried everything, i have already clicked on DCG screen, nothing, and on the men of war assault squad screen and nothing, i made my saved game as result: C:\Documents and Settings\Administrador\Mis documentos\My Games\men of war - assault squad\profiles\player\result

and still i can't continue my campaign, i have to star another one over again, is there any way i can play custom maps as on the skirmish missions? not the whole campaign, something like me purchasing some units and having some manpower? thanks for the help

P.S english is not my first language

[KnightFandragon]

Well, as far as I know this DCG mod is not for Assault Squad. Unless there is a new AS version it is only for Men of War, not AS.

Or else did you chance "player" to some other name? I know my problem was a I had changed my 'player" to 'LordKnightFandragon'...once I realized that was the case it worked fine.

[vampzzz]

Well, actually i've tried saving it on the normal Mow also my profile name says player, which I haven't changed it, I also downloaded all the requirements for the DCG, I have this version for assault squad, might want to check it out: http://www.moddb.com/mods/dynamic-campaign-generator-dcg/downloads/dcg-v25-assault-squad-upgrade

I've installed the MoW DCG and also the assault squad but I can't save neither on the normal one and on the Assault Squad, I don't know what's causing the problem I mean I click on the screen but on the inferior right corner of the DCG screen it keeps loading on the right of the "ready" message, dunno if that's normal but can't save.

thanks for the help anyways

cheers

[vampzzz]

Also I have 2.5 version DCG and my MoW updated

[Zeke Wolff]

Make sure that you keep DCG running whilst playing.

If the window doesnt minimize itself when saving as Result, use ALT-TAB to get back to the desktop. If you have DCG running, the screen will be there, if it isnt, well then you arent running DCG in the background. NEVER close DCG until you´ve decided to quit playing.

The newest version, 2.5 is out at ModDB and a MoW:AS upgrade is also available on that site, HOWEVER, the MoW:AS version only works when you aren´t using the unit, map or the realism addons.

~Zeke.