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Hi!

Just did some test. Quite easy to do for the editing part but I'm having issue to build the map back to RFA after editing it.

I'm using RFA Explorer By Col. Something.

After opening the application as administrator and doing my modification, I build the RFA back using the menu button "build RFA" and everything seems to be fine.

However, when I run the map a lot of things is broken.

For exemple, all the building, sand bags bunker, tower, etc are just not there. I can only see the shadow of them

While playing in coop, the japanese were not using the small ship to attack, only the plane was controller by AI and the US soldier were not moving.

The map I modded is the custom Wake Island (Battlegroup mod.)

I'm on Windows 10, should I tweak something in RFA Explorer or use something else as tool to edit it?

Any advice would me appreciated.

Thx

Hi,

Thank you! That make sens.

Do you know if there a way to set a "general" rule for all "stationary weapon" of all maps or I realy need to edit every?

Also, just to be sure, If I do the modification, did anyone joining the map will need to have the mod on their pc or it's server side configuration and it doesn't matter?

When doing so, do I need to start a dedicated server or it's okay to use the in game menu to select and start the game?

Thx again

Reinstalling everything, in the same directory on both pc managed to make Forgotten Hope work without having to create a dedicated server on changing any parameters.

I will have to do more tests because some maps doesn't want to load in Forgotten Hope.

A lot are just showing a gray screen in place of the normal "map image" and some of theme are just crashing to desktop without any error message.

I didn't got time to search about it yet but I might just reinstall everything all over again.

Is this Reinstalling everything again is a common thing with issue with bf1942?

Thank you again.

Hi,

Thank you for your help.

Just checked, and they're both on 1.06.101.

As I can play BF classic and Desert Combat Final on lan with no problem, what can be wrong only for Forgotten Hope and DC Extended?

Is there a server verification specific to some mods or what?

Hi guys,

Thank you so much for your help. Just after posting, I run into a world of hell and let me try to explain it quick.

After playing some online gaming and local coop, I wanted to try some mod like Desert Combat and FH.

Unfortunately, none of them worked. They were crashing every time I was starting a game for about any map.

So I switched back to play bf1942 original for coop game but it was always starting the first map in the list of "maps to choose from" and never the map I selected and switched in the "maps to play". Kinda a weird.

I also notice that I couldn't change anything related to my profile, resolution, name, etc. Every change was going back to previous value as soon as I clicked "save"

So I searched my computer for the so called profiles and I found 2 places :

1- Game directory
2- In the windows user profile ":\Users\MyGamingPc\Documents\Battlefield 1942"

I deleted the "Battlefield 1942" folder in my windows user profile.

This seems to have fixed my profile issue because I could change all my settings again and the game not starting the selected map was back to normal.

What about the mods? No luck, still crash at map loading.

Then I wanted to change the compatibility of the bf1942 executable (Seen this tips in some forum post).

I removed the xpsp3 compatibility mode and even run as admin and everything is working now. Mods, originals, everything.

I was so skeptical that I deleted every thing and reinstalled everything to be sure to have the correct sequence to fix those issues.

So I did :

1- Install Bf1942 Anthology (Not in program files this time, but in "C:\Games"
2- Install the 1.6 patch from team-Simple website
3- Remove compatibility options and remove "run as admin" on the original exe
4- Tried to find the ":\Users\MyGamingPc\Documents\Battlefield 1942" but It wasn't there??? (Maybe it was there from a previous installation of a different bf1942 installation setup?)
5- Install back all the mod I wanted
6- Open for the first time, created a new profile and changed some control and resolution (1920 X 1080 in my case 60hz)

So far so good, I can join online game, create local, play mods and every maps I tried some far are working great.

Guess what? Seems like my 800X600 problem was linked with the fact that the game was installed in Program Files (for some reason) because since my last install, (in "c:\games\") everything is working perfectly!

The only weird issue I have is with the accentuated character. As I installed my game in french, there is some places where things are badly written like : "Pierre s'est connecté" Displayed "Pierre s'est connectÙ".

Not a huge issue to be honnest, but if I could get it perfect I would be happy.

I have seen quite a bit of Germans on the forum so maybe someone found a quick fix?

What an adventure! I hope this will help other people with a similar problem.

I will try this exact sequence for a friend with an up to date Windows 10 and most recent build to check if it work for him and I will come back here.

Thank you again for your help.

Hope to see you on the battlefield!