Mission does not work

[BoneDust]

When I select "Mission" the sim goes to a load screen and just hangs.:helpsmilie:

[Acedy]

You are on Vista, right? Did you allow the Sim to run with admin rights? (I don't just mean in your admin account, which will still run programs with user rights unless you explicitly grant them admin rights)

[BoneDust]

If you are referring to the properties window and selecting "run as an administrator"? Yes. Missions is the only thing that doesn't run; campaign, editor, instant action all run fine. :)

[ZaltysZ]

Hangs when you press "Mission" in main screen or after you choose your mission?

[BoneDust]

It will not load. The load screen appears after I click the "missions" button, then it just sits there until I "end program" through Windows.

[ZaltysZ]

Please check 2 things:

 

1) Control Panel -> Regional and Language Options -> Advanced -> Language for non Unicode programs.

2) Check folder "..\Ka-50\Misions\" and its subfolders for file names with characters which doesn't belong to language selected setting mentioned before (see #1).

 

In case there are such characters (i.e. Russian) and selected language is wrong (i.e. English), you will get behavior described by yourself.

 

Currently game doesn't support unicode file names, so it hangs if it has to parse directories with file names which containt characters from different code page than a default one for non Unicode programs.

 

P.S. #1 is for XP, on Vista the path to the same setting may look slightly different.

[BoneDust]

Please check 2 things:

 

1) Control Panel -> Regional and Language Options -> Advanced -> Language for non Unicode programs.

2) Check folder "..\Ka-50\Misions\" and its subfolders for file names with characters which doesn't belong to language selected setting mentioned before (see #1).

 

In case there are such characters (i.e. Russian) and selected language is wrong (i.e. English), you will get behavior described by yourself.

 

Currently game doesn't support unicode file names, so it hangs if it has to parse directories with file names which containt characters from different code page than a default one for non Unicode programs.

 

P.S. #1 is for XP, on Vista the path to the same setting may look slightly different.

 

Not sure where you're getting the "advanced" menu mate. I don't see that. What I see is: Control Pane>Clock Language and Region>Regional and Language Options

There is no advanced option. Under administrative I have Russian set for "non-unicode" programs. I'm using Vista so that may be why. :)

[ZaltysZ]

Under administrative I have Russian set for "non-unicode" programs.

 

Check folder "..\Ka-50\Missions\" and its subfolder for filenames, which contain non basic latin and non cyrillic characters. I see that you are from Canada, maybe you have created a mission or track and named it in French?

Edited December 7, 2008 by ZaltysZ

[BoneDust]

Check folder "..\Ka-50\Missions\" and its subfolder for filenames, which contain non basic latin and non cyrillic characters. I see that you are from Canada, maybe you have created a mission or track and named it in French?

 

No, I'm English not French. All the names are in Russian in the "missions" folder.