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[Captain Beremir]

I have been working on my own personal mod for quite some time now, and being a beginner to modding, I have only done simple tasks such as adding new heroes and switching up powers. For months now my mod has worked fine, and there have been no problems. But today, after editing a few more details such as healths and commandsets, the mod no longer runs, and I get a game.dat error every time.

Here is a short summary of what I did, if anything could cause the problem please let me know!
I recently tried to follow the "Adding Morthond Bowmen into a mod" tutorial, but being as this personal mod (The New Shadow, i call it) doesn't have a folder, just a .big, i tried to create a folder. I moved my .big into the folder, but I soon decided to stop the tutorial, as I could not find my AssetCacheBuilder. I went back to just play my mod normally, and naturally the regular ROTWK began, because my mod's .big was in a new location. I copied it back(probably a stupid move to copy it), and the game ran smoothly. Today I began editing some more things such as health and commandsets, to find that they were unchanged in-game. I realized that this must be because of my two files bearing the same name, so I checked out the size of both files, and, finding a larger one(with the new edits), I put that one in the "-mod" location. That's when the game.dat began occurring. So now I cant' play my mod, or edit it in any way to test it.

If there are any codes or information that I need to provide, just let me know. I really wish to solve this problem quickly so that I can get back on track working on it.

Thanks in advance,

-Beremir

[Spartan184]

Why don't you just use the .big that's in the folder isn't that one working? And whats the game.dat error say?

[Captain Beremir]

The problem is in my attempts to make only one "thenewshadow.big" i saved one over the other, hoping that one file would fix the problem. But the problem still exists and now I have no working .big.

And the game.dat says: "game.dat has encountered a problem and need to close. We are sorry for the inconveinence." and then goes on to sending error reports and such

[Spartan184]

Post a picture of the game.dat error.

[Captain Beremir]

Well the thing is, it's not one of those game.dats where it gives you a list of problems. This just says it has encountered a problem and needs to close, like any program does when it has to shut down.

I have a pretty strong feeling that the problem is in "thenewshadow.big" I have tried my regular ROTWK, as well as another personal "The Hobbit" mod of mine, and both work fine. I even tried renaming the files, to no avail. Finally, I copied another ini.big from ROTWK, and then extracted and added the files of "thenewshadow.big" that I had altered, and that won't run now either. Are there any files in the ini.big that I should NOT change, or are all of them ok to change?

[Spartan184]

Hmm im not sure what then. Go and check everything you change before it was crashing, You mentioned you edit health and stuff, go check and see if there is any errors in your code.

[Captain Beremir]

ok i fixed the problem. I must have made a mistake in weapon.ini when I edited it, so when I replaced it with a vanilla ROTWK weapon.ini the game started up again. Thanks for the help Spartan!