I can also confirm Bombermans advice worked. I was crashing every time I tried to save after adding this mod. Followed his directions, now things work as they should.
I really wish this worked. Well... it sort of did. I managed one conversation, and it made reading Kim's subtitles against his silver armor about a million times easier... but then my game crashed. It seemed to cause CTDs after about 45 seconds in game, regardless of where I was or what I was doing. I tried loading saves in different areas, same problem. The only other mods I have are the expanded translations, improved water, and improved LOD textures, so I don't think it is a conflict. I tried the new version, following the instructions exactly, and I tried the old one following the instructions given by brandon2u... same thing both times. Unfortunate since something like this is definitely needed.
Why..... why am I only finding this now? After going through like 3/4, if not more of the game not being able to decipher maybe half of what was said.... ugh.
Thank you. I hope this does indeed work and I can't wait to check it out!
Finally updated this to version 1.1 and removed hud_subtitle_menu.xml. I didn't test this but sounds like it should work. I still don't know why original didn't work...
@brandon2u: thanks for the list of files for Archive Invalidation.
it is missing critical files from DarnUI to work properly.
because of this it can't work with invalidationinvalidated.
as-is the mod causes the vido/audio/control settings in 'options' to not work (causing game crash when trying to change settings and crash on game exit)
Sandman is correct, removing the hud_subtitle_menu.xml will cause the mod to behave properly 'in game' (no black boxes or missing messages).... however... the game will still crash if you try to access video/audio/controls settings in 'options' and crash on game exit.
personally, once i set my video/audio/controls they are never changed during entire game play so this is not a big problem for me and a minor trade off for the black dialog backgrounds that make reading MUCH easier.
for those wiling to sacrifice 'video/audio/control' settings to get the black background for dialog... 1. install mod. 2. removed the file '/Data/Menus/Main/hud_subtitle_menu.xml' 3. add the following lines to 'menu' in archiveinvalidated.txt: /Data/Menus/dialog/dialog_menu.xml /Data/Menus/Main/hud_subtitle_menu.xml /Data/Menus/prefabs/darn/dialog_config.xml /Data/Menus/prefabs/darn/fader_box.xml /Data/Menus/prefabs/darn/vert_floating_scroll.xml /Data/Menus/ui_config/map_config.xml /Textures/menus/darn/omg.dds /Textures/menus/darn/page_extention_untile_yescrease.DDS /Textures/menus/darn/shared_02_tab_noline.DDS /Textures/menus/darn/shared_main_background_1_notile.DDS /Textures/menus/darn/shared_main_background_1_notile_map.DDS /Textures/menus/darn/fb/fader_bl.dds /Textures/menus/darn/fb/fader_bottom.dds /Textures/menus/darn/fb/fader_br.dds /Textures/menus/darn/fb/fader_left.dds /Textures/menus/darn/fb/fader_right.dds /Textures/menus/darn/fb/fader_tl.dds /Textures/menus/darn/fb/fader_top.dds /Textures/menus/darn/fb/fader_tr.dds /Textures/menus/shared/page_extension.dds /Textures/menus/shared/shared_02_tab.dds /Textures/menus/shared/shared_main_background_1.dds /Textures/menus/shared/shared_main_background_1_notile_map.dds
Given that all the dialog for an English speaker like me must be read, I really appreciate this mod. I also had the same problems getting it to work using the .bsa, so I used brandon2u's .txt edit. However I also noticed the black box, but what's more all my notifications(autosave, ect.) were not displaying. By deleting the /Data/Menus/Main/hud_subtitle_menu.xml line I was able to eliminate both problems. Obviously that line is there for a reason, and I don't recommend removing it lightly, but so far it seems to have sorted things out nicely.
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In ArchiveInvalidation.txt I have
/Data/Menus/dialog/dialog_menu.xml
/Data/Menus/prefabs/darn/dialog_config.xml
/Data/Menus/prefabs/darn/fader_box.xml
/Data/Menus/ui_config/map_config.xml
/Textures/menus/darn/omg.dds
/Textures/menus/darn/page_extention_untile_yescrease.DDS
/Textures/menus/darn/shared_02_tab_noline.DDS
/Textures/menus/darn/shared_main_background_1_notile.DDS
/Textures/menus/darn/shared_main_background_1_notile_map.DDS
/Textures/menus/darn/fb/fader_bl.dds
/Textures/menus/darn/fb/fader_bottom.dds
/Textures/menus/darn/fb/fader_br.dds
/Textures/menus/darn/fb/fader_left.dds
/Textures/menus/darn/fb/fader_right.dds
/Textures/menus/darn/fb/fader_tl.dds
/Textures/menus/darn/fb/fader_top.dds
/Textures/menus/darn/fb/fader_tr.dds
/Textures/menus/shared/page_extension.dds
/Textures/menus/shared/shared_02_tab.dds
/Textures/menus/shared/shared_main_background_1.dds
/Textures/menus/shared/shared_main_background_1_notile_map.dds
I deleted the line: /Data/Menus/prefabs/darn/vert_floating_scroll.xml
and the line: /Data/Menus/Main/hud_subtitle_menu.xml
For now, it seems to be working: black box, no crash on video menu. I hope it stays that way ^^
And it worked perfectly.
I don't know if you're still around or if you'll even see this, but Thank you.
Thank you also to the author of the mod, as my old eyes enjoy having the contrast to read by and my german is nearly non existant.
does anyone know a workaround for that?
Thanks for the great mod and it´s implementation to Nehrim!
*endorsed*
LG -Alec-
Unfortunate since something like this is definitely needed.
Thank you. I hope this does indeed work and I can't wait to check it out!
@brandon2u: thanks for the list of files for Archive Invalidation.
sorry for delay, was out of town a short time.
first, this mod is broken.
it is missing critical files from DarnUI to work properly.
because of this it can't work with invalidationinvalidated.
as-is the mod causes the vido/audio/control settings in 'options' to not work (causing game crash when trying to change settings and crash on game exit)
Sandman is correct, removing the hud_subtitle_menu.xml will cause the mod to behave properly 'in game' (no black boxes or missing messages).... however...
the game will still crash if you try to access video/audio/controls settings in 'options' and crash on game exit.
personally, once i set my video/audio/controls they are never changed during entire game play so this is not a big problem for me and a minor trade off for the black dialog backgrounds that make reading MUCH easier.
for those wiling to sacrifice 'video/audio/control' settings to get the black background for dialog...
1. install mod.
2. removed the file '/Data/Menus/Main/hud_subtitle_menu.xml'
3. add the following lines to 'menu' in archiveinvalidated.txt:
/Data/Menus/dialog/dialog_menu.xml
/Data/Menus/Main/hud_subtitle_menu.xml
/Data/Menus/prefabs/darn/dialog_config.xml
/Data/Menus/prefabs/darn/fader_box.xml
/Data/Menus/prefabs/darn/vert_floating_scroll.xml
/Data/Menus/ui_config/map_config.xml
/Textures/menus/darn/omg.dds
/Textures/menus/darn/page_extention_untile_yescrease.DDS
/Textures/menus/darn/shared_02_tab_noline.DDS
/Textures/menus/darn/shared_main_background_1_notile.DDS
/Textures/menus/darn/shared_main_background_1_notile_map.DDS
/Textures/menus/darn/fb/fader_bl.dds
/Textures/menus/darn/fb/fader_bottom.dds
/Textures/menus/darn/fb/fader_br.dds
/Textures/menus/darn/fb/fader_left.dds
/Textures/menus/darn/fb/fader_right.dds
/Textures/menus/darn/fb/fader_tl.dds
/Textures/menus/darn/fb/fader_top.dds
/Textures/menus/darn/fb/fader_tr.dds
/Textures/menus/shared/page_extension.dds
/Textures/menus/shared/shared_02_tab.dds
/Textures/menus/shared/shared_main_background_1.dds
/Textures/menus/shared/shared_main_background_1_notile_map.dds
best of luck and happy hunting
line I was able to eliminate both problems. Obviously that line is there for a reason, and I don't recommend removing it lightly, but so far it seems to have sorted things out nicely.