Hi Tony.

As I'm not interested in all the bells ans whistles, is it possible to make a 1.40 install in the old 1.2 format, which runs files from the root folder?

I do not need all the extra plane sets, terrains and Tmods, only the basic default stuff, from the CDF files.

Use this link:

http://1drv.ms/1UdnVq9

Download the "140Trial2016" (7-zip self installer) and run it.
It creates a "140Trial" folder with everything in it.
However, you must run the DSP140offline.exe first.

Select one of the two exes, the DefaultEAW, and planeset1 like this:


Then you can fly.
The only other thing you may want to do is to replace the "eaw.ini" file with your own.

Thanks for the link doing am download now..getting a new keyboard later spilled a bit of beer on this one

Russ: Check your PMs

No good to me, as it has all renamed textures and 3dz files, not to mention Dir sets, and other junk, of which I know nothing.

Have we lost the abillity to make a fully root install?

From what I understand that root install ability was changed after 1.28c?
I believe Mr.Jelly has posted a recently fixed archive of the old versions that support the v1.2 full root mod installs.

Well, that's as maybe, but I can't even run this exe. I'm getting can't run 1024x768 error, 72170/1 errors, and CTD to desktop from exe, missing d3d.dll?

Got an ATI 1TB HD 5450 Driver Version 6.14.10.7279 on Win XP SP3


All I want to do is drop stuff in the root folder for testing. Not exactly hard to do in 1998!

I've tried running older exe's like 1.28f, but all these installs were damaged 4 years back by a virus, and no longer run.

Col.,
I too am using XP SP3.
For some reason after extracting the zip,
when I go into the folder, my D3D.dll file
disappears. And sometimes, the DSP too. If I
paste another one in there, all works fine and it never
disappears again. I dont hear of this from anyone else so I am
assuming it is an XP problem. (Or maybe my antivirus? Avast.)

AO

You could try win98 compatibility mode with XP SP3 but your joystick probably wont work correctly.

I had, or may still have older versions still on my mediafire account, I was in the process of removing them...let me check, https://www.mediafire.com/folder/goqhg9q87tbhq/game-patch-code%2B
I'm honestly not sure whats left, those files are from 2013 or 2010.

I swore Mr.Jelly just posted maybe a within a few months ago a new 1.29 install and I think they where talking as if it works with 1.2 mods. I'm not sure, I been trying to follow all this.


Does Sybods(Spelling??) v1.26e version work on the XP SP3 machine?

I had several 1.25e installs and loads of Tony's test exe's, all of which used to work, but now don't. I changed the graphics card a year or so ago, and EAW worked.

Then the Virus hit, and screwed a lot of things, forcing me to re install Windows, again.

I was on XP Pro, but I lost that disk, and I was forced to use a Win XP Home OS. Everything seems to work normally. I run Avast too, but I've not had any warnings running EAW, and no files deleted.

For some reason Plane00.dat, d3d.dll, are missing, even in the new install, I downloaded yesterday. Tried using an d3d.dll from another exe, which makes the game run, but CTD's at Fly.

I have no Plane00.dat anywhere on my 3 HD's!

I should say, I hate this tinkering about, that is part of getting EAW to run drives me nuts!

Hence for my request of a basic, no bell and whistles install.

John
There are times when you stretch my patience to breaking point and this is one of them



You asked for a 1.40 install, and the one I pointed to is the simplest one possible.


What did you expect, a version of 1.40 which uses the old naming system when the 1.28c ....... 1.29 exes are still available?
You are a member of the code group, but never kept up to date and seem to be blissfully unaware that we have been using the DirSet system 1.28c was released almost 10 years ago. Since then we have had 1.28d/e/f and 1.29 not to mention the slot free 1.30 and 1.40 systems.
Have you ever considered the reduction in disk fragmentation that the DirSet system achieves, especially when multiskin BMP files came in? You consider this to be junk?

You want to drop files in the root folder. Fine, but if they are aircraft model files with the old names they will not be used by the 1.40 exe.

I know why you got the "Plane00.dat" error.
There is no "Plane00.dat" file anywhere on any of my HDDs either. It is an error message which Ralf introduced to indicate that a "Plane.dat" file is missing and the value indicates the slot number. Your exe cannot find the "Plane.dat" file for Slot 0.
It would not find one for slots 1 to 29 either because you never follow instructions.

The picture in my first reply has the word "must" in it.

My text in that post told you to select a planeset. That whole thing was done to avoid the very problem you encountered, but you still managed to stuff up.

So what do you really want?

It has never been changed. Files in the root folder are always used preferentially to those elsewhere.

The only thing that cannot be done is to put aircraft skin or flight model files in the root folder of EAW140.
A single "PlaneF.3DZ" intended for a 109E would be used by all 30 planes not just the 109E. Similarly a "Plane.flt" or a "Plane.dat" file intended for one plane would be used by all 30 planes.

OK Tony.

I don't want to play the game, simply want an install which runs the extra aircraft 3dz's, purely for testing models.

I should never have to ask for help to get EAW running, as I've happily run the game since 1999, but in recent years the complications of all these new file names, and changes have left me behind.

I don't have the time I once did, nor the mental strength to make sence of all the changes. All I would like to do is mess around with my models, and finish a few things off.

If I can't get a simple working install, like 1.2 was, I might as well call it a day, and say farewell for good.

So why did you ask for a 1.40 install?
You could have has a no frills 1.28c or 1.28e install.
Do you want me to put one together?

if it runs the extended paste on 3dz files, that will be fine.

In the same folder where you got the "140Trial2016" there is a "EAW129 Basic" download for a complete bare bones 1.29

Only the original exe on your link.

Sorry.
Because I own the folder when I tested that link I saw all the files.
I had forgotten that when I created that link I had not shared the folder contents, just the previous file:

This is a link to the 129 installer file: http://1drv.ms/1PSIIj7

As I can see the files it is interesting to note that the 1.29 installer is 452 MB whereas the 1.40 installer is only 139 MB

Hey, maybe that's what happened back when I couldn't see the files on oneDrive.