I don't think i have seen a mod with a more rotten english in its readme. Also since i installed it it just crashes on every opportunity. Not worth the respect this gets.
The structure within the mod folder is a mess, however, just dont copy 2nd "textures" folder, or manually look for corresponding files in the game's "data" subfolders, they kinda all over the place, but it's easy.
The files in the 1st "4k textures" are also messed, later I did move something there too, but it wasnt critical, my game run fine prior to the manipulations.
Yet to see if it will run fine after longer testing.
Appreciate the mod and work you put into it, however I cannot get it to run, after I copy the files over the game crashes when I try to start a new game. What ever the issue is, I isolated it to the art folder after several failed runs. I did things more slowly and methodically to make sure it wasn't a error on my part and the crashing continues so when I did the art folder I first overwrite the files I saw in the game original art/textures and it was fine but once I started putting all the other ones in, it started crashing. not sure if there is still something wrong but I assumed from the way the mod was laid out it was already in the correct layout, so I didn't think it would be that.
I did the patches in order and after the fan patch did the large address aware thing. idk if it would help at all but i do have both text and dmp files about the crash. the txt file says this
I've done a bit of troubleshooting, looking for a specific file causing the crashing, and it seems to me that the problem is simply the sheer amount of textures. I don't know how you've gotten it to work but Large Address Aware doesn't seem to be cutting it for the rest of us. All it does is get us to the menu, but we can't start the actual game. Also, as mentioned by grimtrigger86; "t_greek_b_sling.tga" and "t_tree_palm_diffuse.dds" both cause errors when unzipping. "t_greek_b_sling.tga" in part 1 can be opened but half of it is smeared, while "t_greek_b_sling.tga" in part 2 and "t_tree_palm_diffuse.dds" in parts 2 and 3 can't be opened at all and actually seem to have no contents whatsoever. But removing those files doesn't fix the crashes so I'm pretty sure it's just the amount. Are there any other ways that you've altered your game to allow it to run with all those textures?
"Oh I'm pretty sure I have it figured out. You must have an original copy. I know this because your exe file has the old safedisc DRM on it, that's why it came up as unrecognized publisher. The game is no longer for sale and the only way to get it is to download it from an abandonware site like I did, or it buy someone elses". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Dw0CRPtGCU&lc=UgyHlG8HqlXaCAKOcfx4AaABAg.9Pkj9p2LjAC9ReASeeFBdL
Did you download your black and white game from abandonware site or from torrent?
My version of the game is from a torrent , so maybe the mod i made doesnt work with the game from abandonware , like the user above commented on the video.
It doesn't matter whether the game is either from abandonware/ torrent or whatever, the textures and some folder structure isn't packaged well, most of tga files and dds files for villagers/ landscape/ buildings go to art/textures or ctr or data/landscape folder while for creatures/ hand etc go to ctr folders depending which one they are, unfortinetly mod doesn't have well packaged directories
As for crashing, some texture files have alot of memory usage which LAA cant adress well and causes crashes Try with NTCORE 4gb patcher, which is better patcher in general for older games if that doesnt help, problem is with this mod and most likely if you installed ray tracing shader and if your gpu doesn't support it, it will crash also The 1.42 Fan Patch is currently most stable one and has been tested thoroughly
Same issue as other's are reporting. Game works fine, midcampaign before I install textures. Game crashes on load after installing textures. Same for new game option.
In all honesty, the graphics aren't any different. Slightly smoothed but only very slightly, definitely not 4k anyway, maybe a bridge away from HD quality to be completely honest. Good try though.
I don't really understand where should unpack files. It seems like folders that inside "black and white 2 4 textures" should be copied to Data and that's it. But there is folder above called "textures". Where should I copy that? Tryed to find the name of it's files in gamefolder but there are no files like those.
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The structure within the mod folder is a mess, however, just dont copy 2nd "textures" folder, or manually look for corresponding files in the game's "data" subfolders, they kinda all over the place, but it's easy.
The files in the 1st "4k textures" are also messed, later I did move something there too, but it wasnt critical, my game run fine prior to the manipulations.
Yet to see if it will run fine after longer testing.
I did the patches in order and after the fan patch did the large address aware thing. idk if it would help at all but i do have both text and dmp files about the crash. the txt file says this
Free Memory:
GetProcessMemoryInfo returns:
PageFaultCount = 1794059
PeakWorkingSetSize = 3480367104
WorkingSetSize = 3479003136
QuotaPeakPagedPoolUsage = 841784
QuotaPagedPoolUsage = 751128
QuotaPeakNonPagedPoolUsage = 119264
QuotaNonPagedPoolUsage = 118720
PagefileUsage = 3563122688
PeakPagefileUsage = 3564535808
GetPerformanceInfo returns:
CommitTotal = 5128028
CommitTotal = 5128028
CommitLimit = 9619783
CommitPeak = 7787592
PhysicalTotal = 8374599
PhysicalAvailable = 5171617
SystemCache = 5270489
KernelTotal = 376666
KernelPaged = 244241
KernelNonpaged = 132425
PageSize = 4096
HandleCount = 197185
ProcessCount = 215
ThreadCount = 3150
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Dw0CRPtGCU&t=5s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Dw0CRPtGCU&t=5s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Dw0CRPtGCU&lc=UgyHlG8HqlXaCAKOcfx4AaABAg.9Pkj9p2LjAC9ReASeeFBdL
Did you download your black and white game from abandonware site or from torrent?
My version of the game is from a torrent , so maybe the mod i made doesnt work with the game from abandonware , like the user above commented on the video.
Im going to upload the mod as a single file , instead of separated parts.
As for crashing, some texture files have alot of memory usage which LAA cant adress well and causes crashes
Try with NTCORE 4gb patcher, which is better patcher in general for older games if that doesnt help, problem is with this mod and most likely if you installed ray tracing shader and if your gpu doesn't support it, it will crash also
The 1.42 Fan Patch is currently most stable one and has been tested thoroughly