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[Lauri]

Well, this is for the ones who doesnt' get it to work..
I'm here to help

Here are also some tips to check out

If the game crashes when you open up the Skirmish Screen, go to %appdata%\My Battle for Middle-earth Files\ in your Windows Explorer Address Bar. From here, find your Skirmish Profile and move it somewhere else for safe keeping so you can move it back if/when you uninstall the mod.

Your problem is because the latest mod you've played has a faction to much (ie, 5+).. and that you played that faction (or one of the factions) last.
For example, if you've played TEA, and been elves, the game will crash when you try to go into Skirmish, ect...
One thing you can do, is to either;
a) Play the mod you've played with the faction, and load up a game as a default faction (ie, gondor, rohan, mordor or isengard)
b) Go to "C:\Documents and Settings\USERNAME\Application Data\My Battle for Middle-earth Files" and delete the file WHATEVERSkirmishStats.ini..
on B, you'll lose all the stats you currently have, but since it's only the single player stats, it doesn't matter (Neither does online stats.. )

If you're new to mods or just unsure what to do when you click on the 4th Age Mod shortcut (once it's installed) it might come up with the message;
***Fatal*** String Manager failed to initialized properly
If that happens;
1. Adjust the shortcut's paths and targets to make sure they correspond with you're Battle for Middle Earth ™ core folder, or rather where the .exe is.
For example; mine is "C:/Program Files/The Battle for Middle-Earth/lotrbfme.exe. I've removed the EA Games folder and the ™ from the name of the game folder. Your installation path for the Battle for Middle Earth is likely different; the normal installation path is
"C:/Program Files/EA Games/The Battle for Middle-earth/ and thus where your game's .exe file should be. If you have moved it, adjust the shortcut or move it back to where it was before.
Note the space and the -mod tfa.big at the end of the 4th Age's shortcut; do not change that unless you renamed the .big file, which you shouldn't do.

Edited by Lauri, 20 December 2008 - 11:02 PM.

[mike_]

"Compressed file invalid."

...what?

[Lauri]

I don't know...

Re-download perhaps?
Yoda seemed to get it working..

[Devon]

Yep, worked fine for me.

[mike_]

Well, the file's already on my computer, but for some reason a "Windows cannot access" message comes up when I try open it.

[m@tt]

How big is the file? Probably an incomplete download.

[Lauri]

It shouldn't be caused by me though...
Cause if someone gets it working, and I even tested it myself before I released it, well...

[mike_]

Well, I got it to install and everything.
Just had to re-download
Anyway...last night I got a game.dat/runtime (don't recall which - may have been both) when I tried to access the "skirmish" menu.
I'm going to try again today and see if it still happens.
Cheers,
-mike

[Mathijs]

If that happens, delete your...

whatsitcalled...

the text files in your ''My Battle for Middle-earth'' files.

[Lauri]

Excuse me while I quote the text from the Installer....

If you are experiencing problems on the Skirmish Screen, go to %appdata%\My Battle for Middle-earth Files\ in your Windows Explorer Address Bar. From here, find your Skirmish Profile and move it somewhere else for safe keeping so you can move it back if/when you uninstall the mod.

[Jeth Calark]

if you play as anything other than the original four factions, then leave the game and play another mod or the original game and try to access the skirmish menu, the game will crash.

always make sure when you leave a mod, that the faction choice you're on is one of the original four.

[Spartan184]

if you play as anything other than the original four factions, then leave the game and play another mod or the original game and try to access the skirmish menu, the game will crash.

always make sure when you leave a mod, that the faction choice you're on is one of the original four.

Or you can just leave it as random

[Lauri]

Yeah...

EDIT: Oh, that patch. I do now. However, it now starts up, but whenever I press the Skirmish button it says there's a game.dat error, so I still can't play.

Just throwing it here to keep this place clean
Your problem is because the latest mod you've played has a faction to much (ie, 5+).. and that you played that faction (or one of the factions) last
For example, if you've played TEA, and been elves, the game will crash when you try to go into Skirmish, ect...
One thing you can do, is to either;
a) Play the mod you've played with the faction, and load up a game as a default faction (ie, gondor, rohan, mordor or isengard)
b) Go to "C:\Documents and Settings\USERNAME\Application Data\My Battle for Middle-earth Files" and delete the file WHATEVERSkirmishStats.ini..
on B, you'll lose all the stats you currently have, but since it's only the single player stats, it doesn't matter (Neither does online stats.. )

B is the quickest way to do it btw

[Echo]

Hey, I've just realized that m@tt is also here
Hello

Ok I'll try it now, I hope I can get it to work

[aNaRcHiSt44]

I just want to point something out as well people; if you're new to mods or just unsure what to do when you click on the 4th Age Mod link (I mean once it's installed (to play the game)) it will likely come up with **Fatal String Error** or something like that.
If that happens;
1. Adjust the shortcut's paths and targets to make sure they correspond with you're Battle for Middle Earth ™ core folder, or rather where the .exe is.
For example; mine is "C:/Program Files/The Battle for Middle-Earth/lotrbfme.exe. I've removed the EA Games folder and the ™ from the name of the game folder. Your installation path for the Battle for Middle Earth is likely different; the normal installation path is
"C:/Program Files/EA Games/The Battle for Middle-earth\ and thus where your game's .exe file should be. If you have moved it, adjust the shortcut or move it back to where it was before. (little e)
Note the space and the -mod tfa.big at the end of the 4th Age's shortcut; do not change that unless you renamed the .big file.

Phew.....I just felt like typing, and I decided; why not help? I've never done THAT before rofl! Hope this helps people!

[Lauri]

Good to see you want to help Here's the error for you (I have it on E:/Games/Battle for Middle-Earth, but had to test-install my own mod before release, so I have a non working shortcut atm )

***Fatal*** String Manager failed to initialized properly

edit: added it to the first post... slightly edited

Edited by Lauri, 20 December 2008 - 11:03 PM.

[aNaRcHiSt44]

Heehee I might know fluff about modding, but I sure can get things working. If you want me to write any other stuff like for helping people with bugs, instalation, etc then just tell me Glad to be of service.
Wait...I think I just found myself a job.....hehe

Come to think of it adjust you're shortcut ; sucks to not be able to play your own mod lol

Edited by aNaRcHiSt44, 20 December 2008 - 11:50 PM.

[Lauri]

Heh, sure yeah. Feel free to help out anyone that requires it
Bugs aren't much helping with, as I don't want to help everyone fixing the bugs themselves by going into the mod files...
Helping out people who can't get it to working and stuff though, that's appreciated:)

And yeah, I'll have to edit the shortcut sometime... once I remember how to play in windowed mode...

[aNaRcHiSt44]

Hehehe.
Noted; hopefully people won't need to ask LOL I'm already slacking rofl
Nah, go ahead people
Funny.....